Capitalism's Future

Acknowledgement
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Daniel Krier and Mark P. Worrell

TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF CRITICAL THEORY

1. 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 Ontology
Christian Lotz

4. Capital’s Reach: How Capital Shapes and Subsumes
Patrick Murray

5. 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. Worrell

7. Social Character in Western Pre-Modernity: Lacanian Psychosis in Wladyslaw Reymont’s The Peasants
Daniel Krier and Tony Feldmann

8. 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 Krier

Index