Disintegration: Bad Love, Collective Suicide, and the Idols of Imperial Twilight

Mark Worrell, Ph.D. (2003), University of Kansas, is an Associate Editor at Critical Sociology and has published articles in a wide variety of critical social theory journals and has authored or edited numerous books.

Preface

  Acknowledgements

  List of Figures

  Abbreviations


  Introduction

 1 Marxheimianism and the Return of the Repressed

 2 Freedom and Anomie

 3 Dynamism, Alienation and Reification

 4 Masters and Slaves

 5 Authoritarianism, Character, and Resonance

 6 Disobedience and Necessity


  1 Reflective Determinations

 1 The Lifeless Universal

 2 The Judgement

 3 The Syllogism

 4 Telos

 5 The Idea

 6 Necessity Versus Necessity

 7 The Commodity

 8 The Dialectic


  2 Bad Love

 1 The House of the Absolute

 2 The New Economy and the Reign of Tyche

 3 The Nightmare of Collective Unconsciousness

 4 Suicide


  3The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

 1 Egoism

 2 Altruism

 3 Anomie

 4 Fatalism

 5 Composite Forces

 6 Positive Hell and Heavenly Negativities


  Bibliography

  Index