The Cultural Contradictions Of Anti-Capitalism The Liberal Spirit And The Making Of Western Radicalism | Sociology

Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards as Slavoj Žižek believes nihilism or does it tend towards as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe true egalitarian freedom? Within The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism Fletcher presents an answer that manages to tend towards both simultaneously. In entering into contemporary debates on radicalism this innovative volume proposes a revised conception of Hardt and Negri’s philosophy of emancipatory desire. Indeed Fletcher reassesses Hardt and Negri’s history of Western radicalism and challenges their notion of an alter-modernity break from bourgeois modernity. In addition to this this title proposes the idea of Western anti-capitalism as a spirit within a spirit exploring how anti-capitalist movements in the West pose a genuine challenge to the capitalist order while remaining dependent on liberalist assumptions about the emancipatory individual. Inspired by post-structuralism and rejecting both revolutionary transcendence and notions of an underlying desiring purity The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism offers new insight into how liberal capitalist society persistently produces its own forms of resistance against itself. This book will appeal to graduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as: Sociology Politics International Relations Cultural Studies History and Philosophy. |The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism The Liberal Spirit and the Making of Western Radicalism | Sociology