Marx's Wager Das Kapital and classical sociology / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Kemple, Thomas M.
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• 其他題名：
  • Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.
• 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Marx, Engels, and Marxisms,
• 主題： Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. , Capitalism. , Sociological Theory. , Social Theory. , Political Theory. , Political Sociology.
• ISBN： 9783031080654 (electronic bk.) 、 9783031080647 (paper)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: 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?
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• 摘要註: "Marx's Wager explores the interconnections between the various classical sociological thinkers by focusing on their relations (direct and indirect) to the work of Karl Marx. In the process we are offered fascinating new insights into Marx, together with new ways of looking at figures as various as Herbert Spencer, Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Max Weber, Thorstein Veblen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Sigmund Freud. The result is an intellectual feast for sociologists." -John Bellamy Foster, author, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology Marx's masterpiece Capital (Das Kapital) was ignored and misread, or selectively and creatively interpreted by the generation of social scientists that came after him. With a focus on how Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel attempt to supplement what they call 'historical materialism' or to engage in debates about 'socialism', this book details the significance of their references to Marx's Capital and other writings. Although the classical sociologists did not have access to most of Marx's published and unpublished works as we do today, they share his concern with how empirically detailed and scientifically valid knowledge of the social world may inform historical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. 'What I call "Marx's wager" in the title of this book is a more severe version of Faust's, since it entails both patient understanding and vigorous action. Like Goethe's resolve in dedicating his life to the completion of his masterpiece as the supreme expression of his life, Marx never wavers in his commitment to produce a work that maps the possible directions for human hi
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