Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

2020-12-10
 |  Philosophy
Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Author: Peadar Kirby

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350117846

Category: Philosophy

Page: 256

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Has politics reached breaking point? Rather than defending liberalism or abandoning it, how can a socially just and ecological alternative be built? Peadar Kirby investigates the causes of our current multifaceted global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi. This book explores Polanyi's theory that social disruptions result from the attempt to run society according to the rules of the market. Drawing on these ideas, it outlines pathways towards an alternative future that overcome weaknesses in Marxism. Linking the ecological, political and socio-economic crises, Kirby identifies that an alternative socio-ecological model is emerging, consistent with the insights of Polanyi. Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis is an urgent intervention into key debates on the future of politics, on the low-carbon transition, on automation and on the emerging world order.

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

2022
 |  Electronic books
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

Author: Stefan Fisher-Høyrem

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783031092855

Category: Electronic books

Page: 240

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This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of religion and belief, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity. Stefan Fisher-Hyrem (PhD) is a historian and Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Agder, Norway.