Synopses & Reviews
The current return of interest in socialism and the critique of capitalism make a reengagement with far-left socialist currents of significant interest. Beyond Post-Socialism considers the contemporary situation and prospects of socialism through a series of studies of important Left thinkers including Cornelius Castoriadis, Hardt and Negri, Badiou, Debord, and Wallerstein; through currents such as anarchism and post-Marxism; and through pressing issues like globalization, post-modern thought. El-Ojeili argues for the urgent currency of socialism's left incarnations, for a critical understanding of the present and the imagination of a better future.This book will be compelling to scholars and students of social and political thought and to all those interested in the emergence of a new global left.
Synopsis
The return of interest in socialism and the critique of capitalism make Beyond Post-Socialism a timely work. The book explores the critical-theoretical and utopian contribution of a number of far-Left socialist currents, including anarchism, situationism and post-Marxism and thinkers, such as Castoriadis, Wallerstein, and Badiou.
About the Author
Chamsy el-Ojeili is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is author of Politics, Social Theory, Utopia, and the World-System: Arguments in Political Sociology (2012); co-author (with Patrick Hayden) of C ritical Theories of Globalization (2006); and co-editor (also with Patrick Hayden) of Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays (2009).
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Post-Marxist Trajectories: Diagnosis, Criticism, Utopia
2. 'No, We Have Not Finished Reflecting on Communism': Castoriadis, Lefort, and Psychoanalytic Leninism
3. Forget Debord?
4. 'Many Flowers, Little Fruit'? The Dilemmas of Workerism
5. 'Communism … is the Affirmation of a New Community': Notes on Jacques Camatte
6. Anarchism as the Contemporary Spirit of Anti-Capitalism?: A Critical Survey of Recent Debates
7. Reflections on Wallerstein: The Modern World-System Four Decades on
8. Narrating Socialism - Four Voices
9. Concluding Comments
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