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Resignation and Ecstasy: The Moral Geometry of Collective Self-Destruction
Volume Three of Sacrifice and Self-Defeat
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 167
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Once again, for the first time, Marx and Durkheim join forces while exploring the moral economy of neoliberalism. Resignation and Ecstasy provides a fresh perspective on the immortal vortex of sacred energies pulsating beneath the peculiar logic of modern accumulation. Relying on dialectical methods, classical sociology and psychoanalysis are reconstituted within an Hegelian social ontology to differentiate the ephemeral from the eternal aspects of social life.
Professor Mark P. Worrell (Ret.) is an Associate Editor at Critical Sociology. Worrell has published widely in critical theory journals and has authored or edited numerous books in the areas of conflict, class, theory, and social ontology.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction: the Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
â1The Negative Absolute
â2Anti-reason
â3Good and Evil
â4Necessity and Reductionism
â5Social Facts
â6Suicide
â7Absolute Psychology
â8Sacrifice and the Concept
1 The Whirlpool of the Negative Absolute
â1The Ghost of Solidarity
â2The Bert and Ernie Dialectic
â3The Void
â4Infinity and Taboo
â5Autonomy and Heteronomy
â6Rights, Inevitability, and Necessity
â7Nihilism and Skepticism
â8Ekstasis and Resignation
â9Piacula and Asceticism
â10The Savage Child: infantilism and Primitivism
â11Heterarchy and Autothematicism
â12Compound Alienation
â13Bombers, Shooters, and Drones
â14The Grimace of the Vortex
2 A Formal Condensation of Moral Geometry
Conclusion: the Beginning of the End
Appendix: energy, Form, and Concept
â1The Spirit of Obsolescence
â2The Consciousness of the Whole
â3Realism, Nominalism, Idealism, and Materialism
â4Representations
â5The Post-kantians
â6Split Reasoning
â7Hegel
â8Dialectical Materialism
â9Universals and Individuals
â10Rationalism and Empiricism
â11Viewpoints and Perspectives
â12Sharks and Moderate Realism
â13Social Realism and Social Constructionism
â14The Return of Subjectivist Understandings
â15Methodological Individualism
â16The Really Real
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction: the Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
â1The Negative Absolute
â2Anti-reason
â3Good and Evil
â4Necessity and Reductionism
â5Social Facts
â6Suicide
â7Absolute Psychology
â8Sacrifice and the Concept
1 The Whirlpool of the Negative Absolute
â1The Ghost of Solidarity
â2The Bert and Ernie Dialectic
â3The Void
â4Infinity and Taboo
â5Autonomy and Heteronomy
â6Rights, Inevitability, and Necessity
â7Nihilism and Skepticism
â8Ekstasis and Resignation
â9Piacula and Asceticism
â10The Savage Child: infantilism and Primitivism
â11Heterarchy and Autothematicism
â12Compound Alienation
â13Bombers, Shooters, and Drones
â14The Grimace of the Vortex
2 A Formal Condensation of Moral Geometry
Conclusion: the Beginning of the End
Appendix: energy, Form, and Concept
â1The Spirit of Obsolescence
â2The Consciousness of the Whole
â3Realism, Nominalism, Idealism, and Materialism
â4Representations
â5The Post-kantians
â6Split Reasoning
â7Hegel
â8Dialectical Materialism
â9Universals and Individuals
â10Rationalism and Empiricism
â11Viewpoints and Perspectives
â12Sharks and Moderate Realism
â13Social Realism and Social Constructionism
â14The Return of Subjectivist Understandings
â15Methodological Individualism
â16The Really Real
Bibliography
Index
Graduate students, academic professionals, and intellectuals interested in a classical sociological, psychodynamic, and Hegelian interpretation of the sacred as it applies to the neoliberal capitalist system will be enlightened.