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Author:   Dan Krier ,  Mark P. Worrell
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438477756

ISBN 10:   1438477759
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   01 April 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments The Mirror of Capital: An Introduction to Critical Poiesis Dan Krier and Mark P. Worrell PART I. TWILIGHT 1. An Insane Book, an Insane Country, an Insane System: Moby-Dick, U.S. Hegemony, and the Catastrophe of Capital Tony Smith 2. Marxist Aesthetics, Realism, and Photography: On Brecht's War Primer Christian Lotz 3. The Poetics of Nihilism: Representing Capital's Indifference in Dickens' Hard Times Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler 4. The Repressed Returns: Mann's Doctor Faustus and the Fugue of Capital Dan Krier PART II. DAWN 5. ""Shakespearean Politics"" and World History Tony Smith 6. The Radical Implications of Hölderlin's Aesthetic Rationalism Michael J. Thompson 7. From Mirror to Catalyst: Whitman and the Literature of Re-Creation James Block 8. The City of Brothers Mark P. Worrell and Dan Krier 9. Critical Theory, Sociology, and Science-Fiction Films: Love, Radical Transformation, and the Socio-Logic of Capital Harry F. Dahms 10. Magical Marx: Objective Method and Aesthetics Mark P. Worrell List of Contributors Index"

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This book makes a very important contribution to critical theory and the critical 'human sciences' and is a model of how to do a larger analysis of contemporary capitalist cultural products. - Jeffrey A. Halley, coeditor of Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art

In Capital in the Mirror, editors Krier and Worrell offer a collection of thought-provoking essays that reassess the relationship between social theory and aesthetic philosophy ... While groundbreaking in its interdisciplinary formulations, the volume demands some level of fluency with a variety of scholarly languages. - CHOICE This book makes a very important contribution to critical theory and the critical 'human sciences' and is a model of how to do a larger analysis of contemporary capitalist cultural products. - Jeffrey A. Halley, coeditor of Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art

"""In Capital in the Mirror, editors Krier and Worrell offer a collection of thought-provoking essays that reassess the relationship between social theory and aesthetic philosophy … While groundbreaking in its interdisciplinary formulations, the volume demands some level of fluency with a variety of scholarly languages."" — CHOICE ""This book makes a very important contribution to critical theory and the critical 'human sciences' and is a model of how to do a larger analysis of contemporary capitalist cultural products."" — Jeffrey A. Halley, coeditor of Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art"

Author Information

Dan Krier is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University and the author of Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change, also published by SUNY Press. Mark P. Worrell is retired Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York College at Cortland and serves as an associate editor for the journal Critical Sociology. Together they have coedited The Social Ontology of Capitalism and Capitalism's Future: Alienation, Emancipation, and Critique.

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