Utopia or bust
Subtitle: a guide to the present crisis
By: by Benjamin Kunkel
Series: Jacobin series; Jacobin series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781781683279
Subjects: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Marxian economics; Capitalism
Description: ""The deepest economic crisis in eighty years prompted a shallow revival of Marxism," writes Benjamin Kunkel of the 2008 recession--and the shallowness was undoubtedly a result of the complex, sometimes difficult nature of contemporary Marxist thought. Enter Kunkel's Utopia or Bust, which leads the uninitiated reader through the biggest names in critical political theory today. Written with the wit and verve of a novelist, Utopia or Bust engages with the revolutionary philosophies of Slavoj Žižek, the economic analyses of David Graeber and David Harvey, and the cultural diagnoses of Fredric Jameson. Discussing the crisis of capitalism alongside the idea of full employment and the right to work, Utopia or Bust is not only a tour through the world of Marxist thought, but also an examination of the state of Western society today"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: David Harvey: crisis theory; title: Fredric Jameson: the cultural logic of neoliberalism; title: Robert Brenner: full employment and the long downturn; title: David Graeber: in the midst of life we are in debt; title: Slavoj Žižek: the unbearable lightness of "communism"; title: Boris Groys: aesthetics of utopia.