Resignation and ecstasy : : the moral geometry of collective self-destruction / / Mark P. Worrell.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; Volume 167
• VerfasserIn: Worrell, Mark P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 167.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of 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.