New Spirits of Capitalism?
Crises, Justifications, and Dynamics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199595341
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 240x162x25 mm
- Weight 676 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book explores the nature and effects of contemporary capitalism through engaging with Boltanski and Chiapello's seminal text, The New Spirit of Capitalism. It provides a comprehensive overview and interrogation of the text and develops new insights into contemporary neo-liberal or 'financialized' capitalism.
MoreLong description:
After many years in which it appeared to be losing the pre-eminent position it had occupied in the lexicon of the social and human sciences, the term 'capitalism' has once again become a matter of critical concern, both theoretically and substantively, in a range of disciplinary fields. The global financial and environmental crises, and the shifting of economic power associated with the rise of the BRICs and the sovereign debt contagion in the Eurozone, for example, have all put the norms, practices, and devices of capitalist conduct back under the spotlight.
Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's The New Spirit of Capitalism has become a seminal text since its publication, sparking debate about the meaning, significance, and effects of contemporary changes in economic and organizational life, and becoming a reference point in political discussions about the welfare state, collective action in a 'networked' world, and reconciliation of the interests of social justice with the 'laws of the markets'.
This edited book offers the first comprehensive attempt to examine the power and reach of Boltanski and Chiapello's argument, the text's theoretical and methodological perspectives, tools, and techniques, and to do so in relation to the development of neo-liberal capitalism in the period since its original publication and in particular the culmination of these developments in the ongoing crisis since the financial collapse of 2007-8. The volume provides both a balanced critique and overview of New Spirit, but also shows how it can be used in a variety of empirical studies to develop new insights into the functioning and regulation of capitalism in the contemporary era. The volume brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary fields such as Sociology, Management and Organization Studies, and Geography. Luc Boltanksi and Eve Chiapello also offer their thoughts on the continuing relevance of New Spirit over a decade after its publication, and in the context of contemporary global economic and political developments.
In short, New spirits of capitalism? is an interesting and timely introduction to the currently under-explored work of French pragmatism in the context of the global financial crisis. In particular, it provides the potential for scholars to engage critically with capitalism from a fresh perspective, and provides assurances that delving into the world of Boltanski and friends is an endeavour that is surely worth the trouble.
Table of Contents:
Understanding Capitalism: Crises, Legitimacy and Change through the Prism of The New Spirit of Capitalism
Section 1: New Spirits of Capitalism: Developments and Critique
A Journey through French-style Critique
Capitalism and its Criticisms
Notes on Aspects of the Conceptual Architecture of the New Spirit : Weber and Hirschman
Spirited Away: When Political Economy becomes Culturalized
Beyond Justification: Dietrologic and the Sociology of Critique
The Insubstantial Pageant: Producing an Untoward Land
Section 2 Applications: the Changing Nature of Capitalism, Work, and Organizations in the Public and Private Sectors
The Connexionist Nature of Modern Financial Markets: From a Domination to a Justice Order?
The Distinctiveness of Nordic Welfare States in the Transformation to the Projective City and the New Spirits of Capitalism
From New Spirit to New Steel-Hard Housing? Civil Society Actors, Capitalism and Crisis: The Case of Attac in Europe
Benchmarking for the Greater Good? The New Investment Paradigm in European Higher Education
New Spirits of Public Management Post Bureaucracy
Authenticity at Work: Questioning the New Spirit of Capitalism from a Micro-Sociological Perspective
