Corporate Capitalism and Political Philosophy
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Corporate Capitalism and Political Philosophy

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Corporate Capitalism and Political Philosophy

About this book

Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today. Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based, sometimes incongruously, on particular economic and sociological readings of the capitalist process. Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neoliberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. This book re-examines these issues with an unusually dispassionate approach, providing a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organisation there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Part I: Philosophical Methods and Capitalist Processes: Means, Definitions, Intentions
  4. 1 The Evasiveness of Corporate Capitalism
  5. 2 The Political State
  6. 3 The Capitalist Corporation
  7. 4 The Contradictions of Capitalism
  8. 5 Intentional Systems
  9. Part II: Reasons, Causes and Practices in Contemporary Corporate Capitalism
  10. 6 Classical Sociology and Managerialism
  11. 7 Management Discourses
  12. 8 The Macro Issues Behind Executive Pay
  13. 9 Corporatism and the Corporate Capitalist State
  14. 10 Corporate Capitalist States and International Relations
  15. 11 The Mechanics of Disablement
  16. Part III: The Disabled Political Will and Anti-Political Philosophy
  17. 12 The Anti-Political Self-Defeat of Mannheim
  18. 13 Popper's Anti-Political Philosophical Tendencies
  19. 14 Hayek and the Mature Anti-Political Philosophy
  20. 15 Nozick's Anti-Political Philosophy
  21. 16 Fukuyama's Anti-Political Philosophy
  22. 17 The Need for Rational Utopian Thinking
  23. Notes
  24. Index