Overview

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. 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.

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Author:   Suman Gupta
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.452kg
ISBN:  

9780745317540

ISBN 10:   0745317545
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   20 December 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part I: Philosophical Methods and Capitalist Processes: Means, Definitions, Intentions 1. The Evasiveness of Corporate Capitalism 2. The Political State 3. The Capitalist Corporation 4. The Contradictions of Capitalism 5. Intentional Systems 6. What Follows Part II: Reasons, Causes and Practices in Contemporary Corporate Capitalism 7. Classical Sociology and Managerialism 8. Management Discourses 9. The Macro-Issues Behind Executive Pay 10. Corporatism and the Corporate Capitalist State 11. Corporate Capitalist States and International Politics Part III: The Disabled Political Will and Anti-Political Philosophy 12. The Mechanics of Disablement 13. The Anti-Political Self-Defeat of Mannheim 14. Popper’s Anti-Political Philosophical Tendencies 15. Hayek and the Mature Anti-Political Philosophy 16. Nozick’s Anti-Political Philosophy 17. Fukuyama’s Anti-Political Philosophy 18. The Need for Rational Utopian Thinking Notes Index

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Suman Gupta is senior lecturer at the Open University. He is the author of three books, including Marxism, History and Intellectuals: Toward a Reconceptualized Transformative Socialism (2000).

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