Marx’s Wager

Das Kapital and Classical Sociology

Thomas Kemple (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXIX, 162 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-08064-7 (ISBN)

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Marx's masterpiece Capital (Das Kapital) ignored or misread as well as selectively and creatively interpreted by the generation of social scientists that came after him. Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel attempt to supplement what they call 'historical materialism' or to engage in debates about 'socialism' through their readings of The Communist Manifesto and occasional Capital. Although these and other classical sociologists did not have access to most of Marx's published and unpublished works as we do today, each is concerned with revising and refining Marx's unfinished critique of political economy. Despite their differences with Marx and with one another, 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.

Thomas Kemple is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His articles appear in Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Classical Sociology, and Rethinking Marxism. He is the author of Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the 'Grundrisse' (1995), Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber's Calling (2014), and Simmel (2018).

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?.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Zusatzinfo	XXIX, 162 p. 9 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	classical sociology • Commodity • common consciousness • Comte • Durkheim • Economic Structure • Faust • Hegel • ideological superstructure • labour-power • Martineau • Marxist sociology • Marxist theory • modernist metaphysics • Simmel • Social Theory • Spencer • Tocqueville • Weber • Work Ethic
ISBN-10	3-031-08064-5 / 3031080645
ISBN-13	978-3-031-08064-7 / 9783031080647
Zustand	Neuware