Resignation and Ecstasy: The Moral Geometry of Collective Self-Destruction

Volume Three of Sacrifice and Self-Defeat
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-34141-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 167, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Once again, for the first time, Marx and Durkheim join forces while exploring the moral economy of neoliberalism. Resignation and Ecstasy provides a fresh perspective on the immortal vortex of sacred energies pulsating beneath the peculiar logic of modern accumulation. Relying on dialectical methods, classical sociology and psychoanalysis are reconstituted within an Hegelian social ontology to differentiate the ephemeral from the eternal aspects of social life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Worrell, Mark P

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction: the Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

1The Negative Absolute

2Anti-reason

3Good and Evil

4Necessity and Reductionism

5Social Facts

6Suicide

7Absolute Psychology

8Sacrifice and the Concept

1 The Whirlpool of the Negative Absolute

1The Ghost of Solidarity

2The Bert and Ernie Dialectic

3The Void

4Infinity and Taboo

5Autonomy and Heteronomy

6Rights, Inevitability, and Necessity

7Nihilism and Skepticism

8Ekstasis and Resignation

9Piacula and Asceticism

10The Savage Child: infantilism and Primitivism

11Heterarchy and Autothematicism

12Compound Alienation

13Bombers, Shooters, and Drones

14The Grimace of the Vortex

2 A Formal Condensation of Moral Geometry

Conclusion: the Beginning of the End

Appendix: energy, Form, and Concept

1The Spirit of Obsolescence

2The Consciousness of the Whole

3Realism, Nominalism, Idealism, and Materialism

4Representations

5The Post-kantians

6Split Reasoning

7Hegel

8Dialectical Materialism

9Universals and Individuals

10Rationalism and Empiricism

11Viewpoints and Perspectives

12Sharks and Moderate Realism

13Social Realism and Social Constructionism

14The Return of Subjectivist Understandings

15Methodological Individualism

16The Really Real

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Mark P. Worrell (Ret.) is an Associate Editor at Critical Sociology. Worrell has published widely in critical theory journals and has authored or edited numerous books in the areas of conflict, class, theory, and social ontology.