Marx’s Wager

Thomas Kemple is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His articles appear in Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Classical Sociology, and Rethinking Marxism. He is the author of Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the ‘Grundrisse’ (1995), Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling (2014), and Simmel (2018).

• 1 Introduction: A Colossal Collection of Commodities—Marx Contra Sociology?.- 2 Sensuously Suprasensuous Things: Capital and Social Solidarity.- 3 Capitalism as a Vocation: Capital and the Work Ethic.- 4 The Capitalist’s Two Souls: Capital and the Money Economy.- 5 Conclusion: Capital as Animated Monster: Sociology Contra Marxism?.