Bringing Capitalism Back for Critique by Social Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory)

Hardbound. Reflecting the cultural diversity in critical theory, Current Perspectives in Social Theory presents work from a variety of theoretical traditions demonstrating the problems of sociological theorizing. Volume 21 echoes a current trend by publishing articles that reconsider Marx, Althusser and Gramsci. Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents ......Page 5 Editors ......Page 7 List of Contributors ......Page 9 Introduction ......Page 11 PART I: BRINGING LUXEMBURG BACK AS A CRITICAL THEORIST OF CAPITALISM......Page 14 1. Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital: Critics Try to Bury the Message (Paul Zarembka) ......Page 16 PART II: BRINGING CLASS BACK FOR CRITIQUE BY SOCIAL THEORY......Page 60 2. Class and Causation Bourdieu (Elliot B. Weininger) ......Page 62 3. Gender, Class and Welfare State Formation in the 21st Century (Susan Thistle) ......Page 128 4. Abolitionism and Social Theory: Slavery, "Wage-Slavery", and the Visibility of Oppression (David Norman Smith) ......Page 156 PART III: CONTINUING TO CRITIQUE CAPITALIST CULTURE AND POLITICS......Page 196 5. Ideology After the Millenium: Problems of Legitimation in American Society (Richard Harvey Brown) ......Page 198 6. Alienation's Antidote: The Varieties of Contemporary Mysticism (Philip Wexler) ......Page 246 Fanon Speaks to the Subaltern (Valerie L. Sctamburlo-D'Annibale and Lauren Langman) ......Page 266 PART IV: CRITICALLY THEORIZING GLOBALIZATION AS GLOBAL CAPITALISM......Page 298 Sociology in the Age of Globalization: Toward a Dynamic Sociological Theory (Harry F. Dahms) ......Page 300 This Volume discusses, and manifests, three interrelated perspectives in social theory. First, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is theoretical: there are alternative perspectives, or theories, about any phenomenon. Second, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge is political: these alternative perspectives are contested, as they are related to different groups with different interests. Third, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is social: alternative perspectives have alternative social causes and alternative social effects.