New spirits of capitalism? : crises, justifications, and dynamics / edited by Paul du Gay and Glenn Morgan.

Contributor(s): Du Gay, Paul | Morgan, Glenn
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: xi, 328 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199595341 (hbk.); 0199595348 (hbk.); 9780198708834(pbk); 0198708831(pbk)Subject(s): Boltanski, Luc. Nouvel esprit du capitalisme. English | Boltanski, Luc, 1940- | Capitalism | Capitalism -- Political aspects | Kapitalismus | Liberalismus | Kritik | Regulierung
Contents:
Understanding capitalism: crises, legitimacy, and change through the prism of the new spirit of capitalism / Paul du Gay and Glenn Morgan -- A journey through French-style critique / Luc Boltanski -- Notes on aspects of the conceptual architecture of the 'new spirit': Weber and Hirschman / Paul du Gay -- Spirited away: when political economy becomes culturalized ... / Hugh Willmott -- Beyond justification: dietrologic and the sociology of critique / Martin Parker -- The insubstantial pageant: producing an untoward land / Nigel Thrift -- The connexionist nature of modern financial markets: from a domination to a justice order? / Isabelle Huault and Hélène Rainelli-Weiss -- The distinctiveness of Nordic welfare states in the transformation to the projective city and the new spirits of capitalism / Peer Hull Kristensen -- From 'new spirit' to new steel-hard casing? civil society actors, capitalism, and crisis: the case of Attac in Europe / Silke Ötsch, Pier Paolo Pasqualoni, and Alan Scott -- Benchmarking for the greater good? the 'new investment paradigm' in European higher education / Kathia Serrano-Velarde -- New spirits of public management ... 'post-bureaucracy' / Paul du Gay -- Authenticity at work: questioning the new spirit of capitalism from a micro-sociological perspective / Susanne Ekman.
Summary: This text explores the nature and effects of contemporary capitalism through engaging with Boltanski and Chiapello's seminal text, 'The New Spirit of Capitalism'. It provides a comprehensive overview and interrogation of the text and develops new insights into contemporary neo-liberal or 'financialized' capitalism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding capitalism: crises, legitimacy, and change through the prism of the new spirit of capitalism / Paul du Gay and Glenn Morgan -- A journey through French-style critique / Luc Boltanski -- Notes on aspects of the conceptual architecture of the 'new spirit': Weber and Hirschman / Paul du Gay -- Spirited away: when political economy becomes culturalized ... / Hugh Willmott -- Beyond justification: dietrologic and the sociology of critique / Martin Parker -- The insubstantial pageant: producing an untoward land / Nigel Thrift -- The connexionist nature of modern financial markets: from a domination to a justice order? / Isabelle Huault and Hélène Rainelli-Weiss -- The distinctiveness of Nordic welfare states in the transformation to the projective city and the new spirits of capitalism / Peer Hull Kristensen -- From 'new spirit' to new steel-hard casing? civil society actors, capitalism, and crisis: the case of Attac in Europe / Silke Ötsch, Pier Paolo Pasqualoni, and Alan Scott -- Benchmarking for the greater good? the 'new investment paradigm' in European higher education / Kathia Serrano-Velarde -- New spirits of public management ... 'post-bureaucracy' / Paul du Gay -- Authenticity at work: questioning the new spirit of capitalism from a micro-sociological perspective / Susanne Ekman.

This text explores the nature and effects of contemporary capitalism through engaging with Boltanski and Chiapello's seminal text, 'The New Spirit of Capitalism'. It provides a comprehensive overview and interrogation of the text and develops new insights into contemporary neo-liberal or 'financialized' capitalism.

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