Christos Memos

Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic

Genesis, Constitution and Regressive Progress

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, despite presenting itself as such. Instead, it is considered to be a symptom of a long-standing, multifaceted, and endemic crisis of capitalism which has effectively become permanent, leading contemporary capitalist societies into a state of social regression, manifest in new forms of barbarism. The author offers a qualitative understanding of the economic crisis as the perversion, or inversion, of the capitalistically organized social relations. The genesis of the current crisis is traced back to the unresolved world crisis surrounding the Great Depression in order to map the course and different "inverted forms" of the continuous global crisis of capitalism, and to reveal their inner connections as derivative of the same social constitution. From a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the book expounds critical social theory, elaborating on the intersection between the early critical theory of the Frankfurt School - mainly Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse - and the "social form" analysis of the Open Marxism school. Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic critically addresses the permanent character of the 1920s-1930s crisis and the "crisis theory" debates; the political crisis in Eastern Europe (1953-1968); the crisis of Keynesianism; the crisis of subversive reason; the crisis, negative anthropology and transformations of the bourgeois individual; the state of social regression and the destructive tendencies after the rise of neoliberalism; and finally, the 2008 financial crisis and its ongoing aftermath.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 289g
• ISBN-13: 9780367754648
• ISBN-10: 0367754649
• Artikelnr.: 69892280

Autorenporträt

Christos Memos is Lecturer in Social and Political Theory at the Abertay University, UK. He is the author of Castoriadis and Critical Theory: Crisis, Critique and Radical Alternatives (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Capitalism in permanent crisis, 1920s-1930s 2. Political
crisis and the crisis of modernity: Eastern Europe (1953-1968) 3. The
crisis of Keynesianism, the transformation of liberal oligarchies and the
critique of politics 4. The crisis of critique, the eclipse of subversive
reason and the question of social constitution 5. The crisis and
metamorphoses of the bourgeois individual: On negative anthropology 6.
Capitalism as social regression: Destructive tendencies and new forms of
barbarism 7. The 2008 economic crisis as an alienated critique of
capitalism