Full Description
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.
Contents
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
