Anita Chari revives the key concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neo
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward the Materialization of Critique Part I. Neoliberal Symptoms 1. Neoliberal Symptoms: The Impasse Between Economics and Politics in Contemporary Political Theory 2. Neoliberalism and Normative Ambivalence: Third-Generation Critical Theory and the Fetish of Intersubjectivity Part II. The Critique of Reification 3. Alienation and Depoliticization: Rejoining Radical Democracy with the Critique of Capitalism 4. Lukacs's Turn to a Political Economy of the Senses 5. The Reversibility of Reification: Adorno from the Aesthetic to the Social Part III. A Political Economy of the Senses 6. Defetishizing Fetishes: Art and the Critique of Capital in Neoliberal Society 7. Occupy Wall Street: Challenging Neoliberal Reification Notes Bibliography Index