Capitalism's Future

Daniel Krier (Ph.D. University of Kansas) is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University where he teaches sociological theory. He has published a book Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (SUNY) and numerous articles on finance capital, political economy, critical theory and historical sociology.Mark P. Worrell (PhD University of Kansas) is Associate Professor of sociological theory at SUNY Cortland and has authored books on war, terror, and The Frankfurt School and the revolutionary potential of the American labor force during World War Two. Worrell has published widely in critical social theory journals including Telos, Rethinking Marxism, Fast Capitalism, Logos, and is currently an Associate Editor at the journal Critical Sociology.

• AcknowledgementNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Daniel Krier and Mark P. Worrell TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF CRITICAL THEORY1. Capitalism’s Future: Self Alienation, Self-Emancipation and the Remaking of Critical Theory David Norman Smith SECTION 1: CAPITALISM’S FUTURE AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 2. Beyond Left Liberalism: A Critical Look at Proposals to Reform the Capital/Wage Labor Relation Tony Smith 3. Left Thatcherism: Recent Critical Theory and Post-Marxism(s) in the Light of Marxian Social OntologyChristian Lotz 4. Capital’s Reach: How Capital Shapes and Subsumes Patrick Murray5. Easing the Encumbered Subject: Security, Speculation and Capitalist Subjectivity Kevin Amidon and Daniel Krier SECTION 2: CAPITALISM’S FUTURE AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY 6. The Idolatry of Mind: Durkheim’s Critique of Idealism Mark P. Worrell7. Social Character in Western Pre-Modernity: Lacanian Psychosis in Wladyslaw Reymont’s The Peasants Daniel Krier and Tony Feldmann8. Pragmatism's Status Wage and the Standpoint of the Stranger Graham Cassano 9. Dark Spectacle: Authoritarian Performance and the Commodity Form William J. Swart and Daniel KrierIndex