The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed
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The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed
The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed

The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed

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Martijn Konings (Author)  

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The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a binding force that was not available to more traditional forms of rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands. In developing this perspective, he draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Martin Konings is Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
  • Contributor: Martijn Konings
  • Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780804794473
  • Number of Pages: 184
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 367
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Release Date: 2015-05-27
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Martin Konings is Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

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