The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed - Brossura

Konings, Martijn

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ISBN 10: 0804794472 ISBN 13: 9780804794473

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a binding force that was not available to more traditional forms of rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands. In developing this perspective, he draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism.

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Recensione:

"A unique and original rethinking of the conceptual and affective armature of economy, both in its emergence as a distinct domain of social life and object of analysis over the past century and in its new salience under the sign of neoliberalism." --Randy Martin, New York University

L'autore:

Martin Konings is Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

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• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0804794472
• ISBN 13: 9780804794473
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 172