Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic

Name: Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or \""social hieroglyphic\"", arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, despite presenting itself as such. Instead, it is considered to be a symptom of a long-standing, multifaceted, and endemic crisis of capitalism which has effectively become permanent, leading contemporary capitalist societies into a state of social regression, manifest in new forms of barbarism. The author offers a qualitative understanding of the economic crisis as the perversion, or inversion, of the capitalistically organized social relations. The genesis of the current crisis is traced back to the unresolved world crisis surrounding the Great Depression in order to map the course and different \""inverted forms\"" of the continuous global crisis of capitalism, and to reveal their inner connections as derivative of the same social constitution. From a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the book expounds critic.