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The Pandemic in Britain

COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism

By: Sean Creaven

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The Pandemic in Britain

COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism

By: Sean Creaven

This book offers a political analysis and sociological critique of the UK government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, interpreting the inadequacies of government policy with regard to COVID-19 as the results of neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism based on international trade and labour market precarity. Arguing that institutionalized corporate-capitalist control of state and science generates new and growing public health risks, and that consumer-driven individualism has eroded community life and the protections this might offer against pandemics, the author contends that the UK government’s catastrophic response to the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of peculiarly British socioeconomic and political phenomena. The Pandemic in Britain will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy and politics with interests in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as neoliberal ideology and its manifestation in political life.

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1000891658

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Against the Spiritual Turn

Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

By: Sean Creaven

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Against the Spiritual Turn

Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

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The argument presented in this book is that the recent ‘spiritual’ trajectory of Roy Bhaskar’s work, upon which he first embarked with the publication of his From East to West, undermines the fundamental achievements of his earlier work. The problem with Bhaskar’s new philosophical system (Transcendental Dialectical Critical Realism or simply Meta-Reality), from the critical-realist Marxist perspective endorsed here, is that it marks both a departure from and a negation of the earlier concerns of Bhaskar to develop a realist philosophy of science and under-labour for an emancipatory materialist socio-historical science. The end-result is a meta-philosophy which is irrealist, speculative, under-theorized, internally self-contradictory, and which cannot provide philosophical guidance to liberatory social practices. In opposition to theist ontological logics more generally (including the rather more rational theism presented by Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier and Doug Porpora), the argument of this book is that the earth-bound materialist dialectics of the classical Marxist tradition, and the naturalistic humanism these dialectics under-labour on the terrain of socio-historical being, offer a much more promising way forward for critical realist theory and for liberatory politics and ethics.

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1134009135

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Emergentist Marxism

Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

By: Sean Creaven

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Emergentist Marxism

Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

By: Sean Creaven

In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness, forces and relations of production, base and superstructure, class structure and class conflict, and demonstrates how they allow the social analyst to conceptualize geo-history as embodying a tendential evolutionary directionality, rather than as simply random or indeterminate in terms of its outcomes. For those interested in social and political theory, Marxism and communism and contemporary social theory, this outstanding volume is an in important read and a valuable resource.

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Marxism and Realism

A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

By: Sean Creaven

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A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

By: Sean Creaven

This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as voluntarism versus determinism and humanism versus economism.

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Modernity and the Pandemic

Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19

By: Sean Creaven

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Modernity and the Pandemic

Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19

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Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to the pandemic. The book focuses on key themes integral to a sociology of pandemics in the ‘global’ age. Firstly, Creaven argues that cultures of individualism and consumerism, and of pervasive and deeply entrenched social inequalities (i.e. decivilization) significantly weaken the cause of public health by weakening the compliance of people with state-mandated non-pharmaceutical interventions (including and especially physical distancing rules) and encouraging vaccine hesitancy. Secondly, Creaven examines how interstate competition and imperial politics has undermined an effective global policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy failure with regard to the management of the pandemic is interpreted as being rooted in the dominance of neoliberal ideology and governance in the politics of international relations, particularly in the politics of the leading state actors, by protection of corporate interests at the expense of public health, and in the constraints imposed on state actors by the competitive dynamic of multinational capitalism in the ‘global’ age. Modernity and the Pandemic will appeal to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with interests in neoliberalism and its social, cultural and epidemiological impacts.

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Modernity and the Pandemic

Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19

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Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19

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The Pandemic in Britain

COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism

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COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism

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Against the Spiritual Turn

Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

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Marxism and Realism

A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

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Emergentist Marxism

Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

By: Sean Creaven

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The Pandemic in Britain

The Pandemic in Britain

Against the Spiritual Turn

Against the Spiritual Turn

Emergentist Marxism

Emergentist Marxism

Marxism and Realism

Marxism and Realism

Modernity and the Pandemic

Modernity and the Pandemic

Modernity and the Pandemic

Modernity and the Pandemic

The Pandemic in Britain

The Pandemic in Britain

Against the Spiritual Turn

Against the Spiritual Turn

Marxism and Realism

Marxism and Realism

Emergentist Marxism

Emergentist Marxism

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