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

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...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; Volume 167
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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.
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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.