Werner Bonefeld

A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion

Wealth, Suffering, Negation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a variety of themes central to contemporary Marxist thought and its development as a critical social theory, advancing a focus on social rather than economic categories and identifying the unrest of life and class struggle as characteristic of capitalist society, to be resolved in the communist society of human purposes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781032318776
• ISBN-10: 1032318775
• Artikelnr.: 66689241

Autorenporträt

Werner Bonefeld is Professor of Politics at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy and The Strong State and the Free Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

1 A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, Negation
PART ONE Society as Process of Compulsion 2 Real Abstraction: On Capital
and Class; 3 Money as Social Power: On Labour and Value; 4 World Market and
Crisis: On Capital and its State PART TWO Practical Humanism and the Reason
of Negation 5 Social Coldness and Practical Humanism: On Counter-Hegemony
and Governmentality; 6 History and Freedom: On Social Justice and Class
Society; 7 On Communism and the Philosophy of Now-Time. A Conclusion
Postscript. On the necessity and impossibility of communism