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Series Editor's Foreword to Daniel Krier and Mark P. Worrell: The Social Ontology of Capitalism; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; List of Table; Chapter 1: The Social Ontology of Capitalism: An Introduction; Part I: Abstract; Chapter 2: Social Ontology and Social Critique: Toward a New Paradigm for Critical Theory; Introduction; The Limits of Contemporary Critical Theory; The Concept of Social Ontology and its Dimensions; Four Dimensions of a Social Ontology; Substance; Relations; Process; Constructivism; The Ontological Ground of Critique and Judgment
Capitalism as Pathological SocialityConclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century: The Logic of Capital Between Classical Social Theory, the Early Frankfurt School Critique of Political Economy and the Prospect of Artifice*; Introduction; Critical Theory in the Twentieth Century: Modern Society and the ocio-Logic of Capital; Classical Social Theory and the Transition from Spirit to Capital; The Plight of the Early Frankfurt School's Critical Theory of Political Economy
Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century: From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of ArtificeNotes; References; Chapter 4: The Sacred and the Profane in the General Formula for Capital: The Octagonal Structure of the Commodity and Saving Marx's Sociological Realism from Professional Marxology; Capitalists and Anti-capitalists: The Twin Poles of the Cult of Value; Commodity Circulation and the General Formula for Capital; Remapping the general Formula for Capitalism; Material Repossession; The "Calling"; References
Chapter 5: Social Form and the 'Purely Social': On the Kind of Sociality Involved in ValueSocial Forms and General Traits; Skepticism About Purposes and Forms; Social Forms: From Commodities to Value; The Commodity Spectrum: Simple Commodities, Commodities That are Commodity Capital, Ex-commodities, Potential Commodities, Quasi-commodities; From Value to Abstract Labor and Time; From Abstract Labor and Time to Money and Capital; Two Meanings of Marx's Description of Value as "Purely Social"; More to the Story: Some Qualifications to the "Purely Social" Sociality of Value; Notes; References
Part II: ConcreteChapter 6: Debt in the Global Economy; Seven "Anomalies" Of Debt In Contemporary Capitalism; The Scale of the Increase in Debt; The Combination of Increasing Debt and Declining Rates of Investment in the World Economy as a Whole; The Increasing Ratio of Debt to Gross Domestic Product; The Rise of Financialization; The Frequency and Scale of Financial Crises; Extensive and Persisting Global Imbalances; The Lack of "Deleveraging" in the Years Following the "Great Recession"; Two Familiar Accounts; Moral Failures; Political Failures; A General Pattern in Capitalist Development
Capitalism as Pathological SocialityConclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century: The Logic of Capital Between Classical Social Theory, the Early Frankfurt School Critique of Political Economy and the Prospect of Artifice*; Introduction; Critical Theory in the Twentieth Century: Modern Society and the ocio-Logic of Capital; Classical Social Theory and the Transition from Spirit to Capital; The Plight of the Early Frankfurt School's Critical Theory of Political Economy
Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century: From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of ArtificeNotes; References; Chapter 4: The Sacred and the Profane in the General Formula for Capital: The Octagonal Structure of the Commodity and Saving Marx's Sociological Realism from Professional Marxology; Capitalists and Anti-capitalists: The Twin Poles of the Cult of Value; Commodity Circulation and the General Formula for Capital; Remapping the general Formula for Capitalism; Material Repossession; The "Calling"; References
Chapter 5: Social Form and the 'Purely Social': On the Kind of Sociality Involved in ValueSocial Forms and General Traits; Skepticism About Purposes and Forms; Social Forms: From Commodities to Value; The Commodity Spectrum: Simple Commodities, Commodities That are Commodity Capital, Ex-commodities, Potential Commodities, Quasi-commodities; From Value to Abstract Labor and Time; From Abstract Labor and Time to Money and Capital; Two Meanings of Marx's Description of Value as "Purely Social"; More to the Story: Some Qualifications to the "Purely Social" Sociality of Value; Notes; References
Part II: ConcreteChapter 6: Debt in the Global Economy; Seven "Anomalies" Of Debt In Contemporary Capitalism; The Scale of the Increase in Debt; The Combination of Increasing Debt and Declining Rates of Investment in the World Economy as a Whole; The Increasing Ratio of Debt to Gross Domestic Product; The Rise of Financialization; The Frequency and Scale of Financial Crises; Extensive and Persisting Global Imbalances; The Lack of "Deleveraging" in the Years Following the "Great Recession"; Two Familiar Accounts; Moral Failures; Political Failures; A General Pattern in Capitalist Development