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Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis

Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis

Kunkel, Benjamin

Paperback

Series: Jacobin

PhilosophyEconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1781683271
ISBN13: 9781781683279
Publisher: Verso
Published: Mar 11 2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.15 Depth: 7.86
Language: English
After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.

But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored
outside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel's Utopia or Bust leads readers - whether politically committed or simply curious - through the most important critical theory today. Written with the wit and verve of Kunkel's best-selling novel, Indecision, this introduction to contemporary Leftist thinkers engages with the revolutionary philosophy of Slavoj Žižek, the economic analyses of David Graeber and David Harvey, and the cultural diagnoses of Fredric Jameson.

Discussing the ongoing crisis of capitalism in light of ideas of full employment, debt forgiveness, and fictitious capital, Utopia or Bust is a tour through the world of Marxist thought and an examination of the basis of Western society today.

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