Capital in the Mirror

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.

• AcknowledgmentsThe Mirror of Capital: An Introduction to Critical PoiesisDan Krier and Mark P. WorrellPART I. TWILIGHT 1. An Insane Book, an Insane Country, an Insane System: Moby-Dick, U.S. Hegemony, and the Catastrophe of CapitalTony Smith2. Marxist Aesthetics, Realism, and Photography: On Brecht's War Primer Christian Lotz3. The Poetics of Nihilism: Representing Capital's Indifference in Dickens' Hard TimesPatrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler4. The Repressed Returns: Mann's Doctor Faustus and the Fugue of CapitalDan KrierPART II. DAWN 5. "Shakespearean Politics" and World HistoryTony Smith6. The Radical Implications of Hölderlin's Aesthetic RationalismMichael J. Thompson7. From Mirror to Catalyst: Whitman and the Literature of Re-CreationJames Block8. The City of BrothersMark P. Worrell and Dan Krier9. Critical Theory, Sociology, and Science-Fiction Films: Love, Radical Transformation, and the Socio-Logic of CapitalHarry F. Dahms10. Magical Marx: Objective Method and AestheticsMark P. WorrellList of ContributorsIndex

"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