ISBN:
9781315107936
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1315107937
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9781351608565
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1351608568
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135160855X
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9781351608558
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9781351608541
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1351608541
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
Series Statement:
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version : Memos, Christos, 1968- Global economic crisis as social hieroglyphic.
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
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2008-2009
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Economics Sociological aspects.
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Capitalism Social aspects.
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Social aspects.
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Critical theory.
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Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 Aspect social.
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Théorie critique.
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology
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General.
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Capitalism Social aspects.
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Critical theory.
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Economics Sociological aspects.
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Social aspects.
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Electronic books.
Abstract:
"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/30s crisis and the "crisis theory" debates; the political crisis in Eastern Europe (1953-68); 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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Capitalism in Permanent Crisis 1920s-1930s -- Political Crisis and The Crisis of Modernity: Eastern Europe (1953-1968) -- The Crisis of Keynesianism, The Transformation of Liberal Oligarchies and The Critique of Politics -- The Crisis of Critique, The Eclipse of Subversive Reason and The Question of Social Constitution -- The Crisis and Metamorphoses of The Bourgeois Individual: On Negative Anthropology -- Capitalism as Social Regression: Destructive Tendencies and New Forms of Barbarism -- The 2008 Economic Crisis as an Alienated Critique of Capitalism.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315107936
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315107936
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