The Disabled Political Will : Corporate Capitalism and Political Philosophy

Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory. Contents......Page 4 Acknowledgements......Page 6 Part I: Philosophical Methods and Capitalist Processes: Means, Definitions, Intentions......Page 7 1 The Evasiveness of Corporate Capitalism......Page 9 2 The Political State......Page 18 3 The Capitalist Corporation......Page 27 4 The Contradictions of Capitalism......Page 34 5 Intentional Systems......Page 58 Part II: Reasons, Causes and Practices in Contemporary Corporate Capitalism......Page 69 6 Classical Sociology and Managerialism......Page 71 7 Management Discourses......Page 98 8 The Macro Issues Behind Executive Pay......Page 119 9 Corporatism and the Corporate Capitalist State......Page 145 10 Corporate Capitalist States and International Relations......Page 161 11 The Mechanics of Disablement......Page 177 Part III: The Disabled Political Will and Anti-Political Philosophy......Page 175 12 The Anti-Political Self-Defeat of Mannheim......Page 191 13 Popper's Anti-Political Philosophical Tendencies......Page 203 14 Hayek and the Mature Anti-Political Philosophy......Page 216 15 Nozick's Anti-Political Philosophy......Page 231 16 Fukuyama's Anti-Political Philosophy......Page 250 17 The Need for Rational Utopian Thinking......Page 261 Chapter 1......Page 269 Chapter 3......Page 271 Chapter 4......Page 272 Chapter 5......Page 273 Chapter 6......Page 274 Chapter 7......Page 275 Chapter 8......Page 277 Chapter 9......Page 281 Chapter 10......Page 282 Chapter 11......Page 283 Chapter 12......Page 284 Chapter 13......Page 285 Chapter 14......Page 286 Chapter 15......Page 288 Chapter 17......Page 289 Index......Page 290 This book is a political philosophical critique of corporate capitalism. Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today. Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based, sometimes incongruously, on particular economic and sociological readings of the capitalist process. Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neo-liberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. This book re-examines these issues with an unusually dispassionate approach, providing a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion--that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organisation there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will. -- Publisher description Annotation. This book is a political philosophical critique of corporate capitalism. Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today. Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based, sometimes incongruously, on particular economic and sociological readings of the capitalist process. Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neo-liberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. This book re-examines these issues with an unusually dispassionate approach, providing a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion--that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organisation there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will

This book is a political philosophical critique of corporate capitalism. Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today.Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based, sometimes incongruously, on particular economic and sociological readings of the capitalist process. Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neo-liberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. This book re-examines these issues with an unusually dispassionate approach, providing a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion—that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organisation there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will.

Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today. Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based, sometimes incongruously, on particular economic and sociological readings of the capitalist process. Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neoliberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. This book re-examines these issues with an unusually dispassionate approach, providing a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organisation there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will. Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based, sometimes incongruously, on particular economic and sociological readings of the capitalist process. Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neo-liberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. This book re-examines these issues with a dispassionate approach, offering a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion - that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organization there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will This is a political philosophical critique of corporate capitalism. It offers an account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live in the 21st century Suman Gupta. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 263-283) And Index.