Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism

by Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi

This volume reassesses the nature of the current global economic crisis and its implication for the 21st century, through the unique lens of Marx's theory of the value-form as the unconscious matrix of modern society.

Going beyond orthodox Marxist and postmodernist accounts, the author offers fresh new readings of Marx, Benjamin, Foucault, and Zizek. Here he argues that capitalism has not only entered its greatest crisis since WWII, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441189092
• ISBN13: 9781441189097
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"