Social Theory of Fear
Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World
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Product details:
- Edition number 2010
- Publisher Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 1 January 2010
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230103498
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages234 pages
- Size 16x144x215 mm
- Weight 410 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org.
In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion.
Long description:
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion.
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" Social Theory of Fear represents an important theoretical synthesis, bringing together various and interdependent strands of social theory (including the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, Peircean semiotics, and World Systems Theory) in a new, interesting, and enlightening way. Geoffrey R. Skoll s work represents what is best in contemporary critical theory, echoing themes in postmodern theorists like Zizek and Badiou. But Skoll refashions postmodern philosophy, refracting it through a sociological imagination shaped by American semiotic pragmatism. This combination of critical semiotics and political economy makes for a unique contribution to our theoretical traditions. Skoll's interdisciplinary work will interest any reader concerned with the central theoretical and practical problems facing the contemporary world system." - Graham Cassano, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Oakland University, Book Review Editor, Critical Sociology , and editor of Class Struggle on the Homefront: Work, Conflict, and Exploitation in the Household
Table of Contents:
Capitalism's Collapse States and Social Control Law and Terror Terror, Law, and Torture Camps, Gallows, Ghettos, Gulags, and Prisons The Rise of the Icon Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond Resistance and the Fight against Repression The Rebel A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org.
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