Corporate capitalism and political philosophy / Suman Gupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gupta, Suman, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations.

Capitalism.

Community life.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a political philosophical critique of corporate capitalism. 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 neo-liberalism 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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I Philosophical Methods and Capitalist Processes:

Means, Definitions, Intentions

1. The Evasiveness of Corporate Capitalism

2. The Political State

3. The Capitalist Corporation

4. The Contradictions of Capitalism

5. Intentional Systems

Part II Reasons, Causes and Practices in Contemporary

Corporate Capitalism

6. Classical Sociology andManagerialism

7. Management Discourses

8. The Macro Issues Behind Executive Pay

9. Corporatism and the Corporate Capitalist State

10. Corporate Capitalist States and International Relations

Part III The Disabled Political Will and Anti-Political

Philosophy

11. The Mechanics of Disablement

12. The Anti-Political Self-Defeat of Mannheim

13. Popper's Anti-Political Philosophical Tendencies

14. Hayek and the Mature Anti-Political Philosophy

15. Nozick's Anti-Political Philosophy

16. Fukuyama's Anti-Political Philosophy

17. The Need for Rational Utopian Thinking.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849641142

1849641145

OCLC:

847864609