<<The>> Dialectic of Control : Sketch for a Critical Theory of Society / Craig Browne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Craig, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

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No detailed description available for "The Dialectic of Control".

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Part I Sketch of a Synthetic Social Theory

1 Introduction

1.1 A theory of society and a social theory perspective

1.2 Contemporary modernity and the antinomies of freedom

1.3 Social contradictions and social struggles -​ the dialectic of control perspective

1.4 Conceptualization and critique

1.5 On control itself

1.6 Social practice, social contestation and social reflexivity

1.7 From premodern control to the tendencies of the present

1.8 Theory and practice

2 Outline of a New Critical Model

2.1 Prelude to a social ontology of practice

2.2 Mediation as theory and institution

2.3 Explorations in historical sociology and the task of conceptual renewal

2.4 Towards a synthetic construction

2.5 Dimensions of a Critical Theory of social conflict

2.6 On the construction of a new critical model

Part II From Hegel's Dialectic to Critical Social Theory

3 Hegel's Philosophical Origination

3.1 A critical hermeneutics of Hegel's dialectical elucidation

3.2 Lordship and bondage

master and slave

3.3 Political theory and social reality

4 Marx's Antinomian Project

4.1 Five key components of Marx's social theory

4.1.1 Labour and labour power

4.1.2 The politics of class struggle

4.1.3 The contradiction of private appropriation and socialized production

4.1.4 Alienation

4.1.5 Socialist and communist society -​ collective control

4.2 Dialectical contradictions: Hegel's revolution and Marx's problematiques

5 The Struggle for Recognition and the Dialectic of Control

5.1 Practices and institutions

5.2 Critique and social contradictions

5.3 Assaying the dynamics of interdependency

Part III The Rationalization of Control

6 A Historical Ontology of Control.

6.1 Control -​ an elucidation

6.2 Rationalization and modernity

7 The Reorganization of Social Relations, Institutions and Subjectivity

7.1 Bureaucracy, management and subjection

7.2 Reflexive control: feedback and autopoiesis

7.3 Review and preview: from rational reflexive to reflexive irrational control?

Part IV Modernity as a Constellation of Social Conflict

8 The Constituting of Modernity

8.1 Modernity

8.2 Constituent power

8.3 Revolution

8.4 Collective subjectivities: demos and class

8.5 Between ideology and institution

9 Projects and Crises: Tensions, Antagonisms and Contradictions

9.1 Antinomies of modernity -​ collective projects of society's action on itself

9.2 The negation of the negation

9.3 In lieu of a conclusion: second order conflicts and the arc of contemporary modernity

Part V Conclusion to a Sketch for a Critical Theory of Society

10 Conclusion

10.1 Intersubjectivity and social autonomy

10.2 Sources, origins, problematiques

10.3 Control's metamorphoses

10.4 Social reflexivity and social conflicts

10.5 A social theory of a self-​contradictory configuration of society

References

Index.

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Print version: Browne, Craig The Dialectic of Control

ISBN:

9781529230215

OCLC:

1603129101