Daniel Krier (Ph.D. University of Kansas) is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University where he teaches sociological theory. He has published a book Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (SUNY) and numerous articles on finance capital, political economy, critical theory and historical sociology.Mark P. Worrell (PhD University of Kansas) is Associate Professor of sociological theory at SUNY Cortland and has authored books on war, terror, and The Frankfurt School and the revolutionary potential of the American labor force during World War Two. Worrell has published widely in critical social theory journals including Telos, Rethinking Marxism, Fast Capitalism, Logos, and is currently an Associate Editor at the journal Critical Sociology.

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• AcknowledgementNotes on ContributorsIntroductionDaniel Krier and Mark P. WorrellTOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF CRITICAL THEORY1. Capitalism’s Future: Self Alienation, Self-Emancipation and the Remaking of Critical TheoryDavid Norman SmithSECTION 1: CAPITALISM’S FUTURE AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY2. Beyond Left Liberalism: A Critical Look at Proposals to Reform the Capital/Wage Labor RelationTony Smith3. Left Thatcherism: Recent Critical Theory and Post-Marxism(s) in the Light of Marxian Social OntologyChristian Lotz4. Capital’s Reach: How Capital Shapes and SubsumesPatrick Murray5. Easing the Encumbered Subject: Security, Speculation and Capitalist SubjectivityKevin Amidon and Daniel KrierSECTION 2: CAPITALISM’S FUTURE AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY6. The Idolatry of Mind: Durkheim’s Critique of IdealismMark P. Worrell7. Social Character in Western Pre-Modernity: Lacanian Psychosis in Wladyslaw Reymont’s The PeasantsDaniel Krier and Tony Feldmann8. Pragmatism's Status Wage and the Standpoint of the StrangerGraham Cassano9. Dark Spectacle: Authoritarian Performance and the Commodity FormWilliam J. Swart and Daniel KrierIndex