{"product_id":"capital-in-the-mirror-dan-krier-9781438477756","title":"Capital in the Mirror: Critical Social Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnalyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism's darkest dynamics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAesthetic objects, crafted as poetic reflections of the contradictory worlds that they inhabit, are simultaneously theorized and theorizing. In \u003ci\u003eCapital in the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, eminent critical theorists explore the aesthetic dimension for reflective visions of capital that are difficult to obtain through even the most rigorous statistical analyses. Chapters address inequality, alienation, ideology, warfare, and other problems of contemporary capitalism through the cultural prisms of Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Charles Dickens, J. W. Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Walt Whitman, Bertolt Brecht, and science-fiction cinema. Famous narrative elements in their works, such as Ahab's pursuit of the white whale in Melville's \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, demonic production and perverse desire in Mann's \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e, socially electrified bodies of Whitman's \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, and dystopian projections of current sci-fi cinema, are theorized as stylistically distorted reflections of social life within capital. The authors reveal theoretical powers latent within these condensed images that prefigure the dark dynamics of capitalism. Focusing on dark images of domination and also prophetic images of transformation, the book points the way toward emancipation, social regeneration, and human flourishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dan Krier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438477759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438477756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2020","brand":"Dan Krier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001504710911,"sku":"9781438477756","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db6e0677-74da-46a1-af4e-8de4220d3a6d.jpg?v=1751601275","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/capital-in-the-mirror-dan-krier-9781438477756","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}