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Reification and the Political Subjectivity of Neoliberalism Reification and the Political Subjectivity of Neoliberalism
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Part 1: Neoliberal Symptoms in Contemporary Theory Part 1: Neoliberal Symptoms in Contemporary Theory
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Part 2: Reification and Neoliberalism—Marx, Lukács, and Adorno Part 2: Reification and Neoliberalism—Marx, Lukács, and Adorno
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Part 3: From Theory to Praxis Part 3: From Theory to Praxis
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Introduction: Toward the Materialization of Critique
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Published:October 2015
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This is a book about how critical theory can address the forms of domination that have emerged in the context of neoliberal capitalism. It is a book that seeks to make critique more responsive to changes in the relationship between politics and economics in neoliberalism by joining two powerful methods of critique: theories of radical democracy on the one hand and critiques of political economy on the other. In this introduction I explain why this is such a crucial task for contemporary theory.
In the two decades following the collapse of actually existing socialism, victorious capitalism seemed to be the order of the day. As the world crossed the threshold of the so-called end of history, ideological resistance to capitalism—in the United States above all—receded into the background, even in the face of the blatant contradictions and injustices that postindustrial societies faced in the wake of the post-Fordist flexibilization of labor, economic recession, and the erosion of the welfare state. But the financial crisis of 2008 has brought the inequalities and injustices of capitalism as a mode of political and economic organization abruptly into public consciousness, both in the American context and globally.
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