The Social Ontology of Capitalism

1. The Social Ontology of Capitalism: An Introduction
Daniel Krier, Mark P. Worrell

Part I. Abstract

2. Social Ontology and Social Critique: Toward a New Paradigm for Critical Theory
Michael J. Thompson

3. Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century: The Logic of Capital Between Classical Social Theory, the Early Frankfurt School Critique of Political Economy and the Prospect of Artifice
Harry F. Dahms

4. The Sacred and the Profane in the General Formula for Capital: The Octagonal Structure of the Commodity and Saving Marx’s Sociological Realism from Professional Marxology
Mark P. Worrell

5. Social Form and the ‘Purely Social’: On the Kind of Sociality Involved in Value
Patrick Murray, Jeanne Schuler

Part II. Concrete

6. Debt in the Global Economy
Tony Smith

7. Representing Capital: Mimesis, Realism, and Contemporary Photography
Christian Lotz

8. Demand the Impossible: Greece, the Eurozone Crisis, and the Failure of the Utopian Imagination
David Norman Smith

9. The Constellation of Social Ontology: Walter Benjamin, Eduard Fuchs, and the Body of History
Kevin S. Amidon, Daniel Krier

10. The Body Ontology of Capitalism
Daniel Krier, Kevin S. Amidon

11. The Morality of Misery
Tony A. Feldmann

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Sociology, Democracy, Political Economy, Sociological Theory