Marx's Wager

Das Kapital and Classical Sociology
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-08064-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

Marx's masterpiece Capital ( Das Kapital ) ignored or misread as well as selectively and creatively interpreted by the generation of social scientists that came after him. Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel attempt to supplement what they call ‘historical materialism’ or to engage in debates about ‘socialism’ through their readings of The Communist Manifesto and occasional  Capital. Although these and other classical sociologists did not have access to most of Marx’s published and unpublished works as we do today, each is concerned with revising and refining Marx’s unfinished critique of political economy. Despite their differences with Marx and with one another, they share his concern with how empirically detailed and scientifically valid knowledge of the social world may inform historical struggles for a more human world. This commitment can be called ‘Faustian’, after the title character of the poet J. W. von Goethe’s tragic epic of modernity,insofar as Marx and the classical sociologists hope to translate theory into practice while making a pact or wager with the diabolical social, political, and economic forces of the modern world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kemple, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: A Colossal Collection of Commodities—Marx Contra Sociology?.- 2 Sensuously Suprasensuous Things: Capital and Social Solidarity.- 3 Capitalism as a Vocation: Capital and the Work Ethic.- 4 The Capitalist’s Two Souls: Capital and the Money Economy.- 5 Conclusion: Capital as Animated Monster: Sociology Contra Marxism?.

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Kemple is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His articles appear in  Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Classical Sociology, and Rethinking Marxism . He is the author of Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the ‘Grundrisse’ (1995), Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling (2014), and Simmel (2018).