Beyond Capitalist Dystopia: Reclaiming Freedom and Democracy in the Age of Global Crises

ISBN-13: 9780367746407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 218 str.

Davor Dzalto

Opis

This book interrogates the ideology of capitalism underpinning various mainstream ideologies. It explores the genesis, structure and functioning of this ideological narrative, provides a critical assessment, and outlines alternatives beyond the logic of capitalism and towards a free and democratic society.

Recenzje

"In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Dzalto masterfully synthesizes a set of urgent insights from moral philosophy, social science, and humanist common sense. It raises urgent questions for citizens, scholars and practitioners alike on their roles in perpetuating a needlessly cruel and irrational social system. Dzalto stimulates the reader to reconceptualize her understanding of society and human nature as such, hopping effortlessly from the contemporary health crisis to 18th Century debates over Lutheranism to underline recurring themes and category errors. Reminiscent of Albert Hirschman's Passions and the Interests and Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, this important work resurrects the forgotten debates over capitalist ideology and democratic community - all with the passion and humor of a young Karl Marx. The tired debate over the tension between democracy and capitalism has received a glaring rejuvenation in this extraordinary treatise."

Danilo Mandic, Lecturer in Sociology, Harvard University, USA

Spis treści

1. Confronting Capitalism, Global Crises and Dystopian Social Spaces  2. The Ideology of the "End of Ideology"  3. How Did We Get Here? Setting the (Ideological) Stage for Modern Capitalism  4. Homo Economicus and Society as "Free" Market  5. The Madness of (Capitalist) "Normality"  6. Beyond Capitalist Dystopia

O autorze

Davor Džalto is Professor in Religion and Democracy at University College Stockholm, Sweden. He has published widely in the fields of political theology, religious philosophy and aesthetics. He is author of Anarchy and the Kingdom of God (Fordham University Press, 2021) and editor of Noam Chomsky’s Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution (PM Press, 2018).