{"product_id":"contradictions-of-capitalist-society-and-culture-dialectics-of-love-and-lying-9789004539976","title":"Contradictions of Capitalist Society and Culture: Dialectics of Love and Lying","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world experiences rampant ideological\/political lying and absence of genuine love. Capitalism utilizes lies to hide its contradictions causing people’s suffering which undermines genuine love. The right-wing capitalist politics is a politics of hatred, justified by lies. The analysis of love and lying, as aspects of capitalist culture, has important practical implications for the struggle for socialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   List of Figures and Tables   1 Introduction   1 Love    2 Lying    3 Outline     2 Love and Politics: Some Existing Views   1 Introduction    2 What Is Love?    3 Why do People Fall in Love?    4 Consequences and Politics of Love    5 A Critique of Existing Views on Love     Appendix: Neuroscience and Love     3 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Trans-historical Aspects   1 Introduction    2 Love as a Social-emergent Effect of a Mental and Physical Connection    3 Love Is More Than a Relation between Two Individuals    4 Love Is a Conscious ‘Labour Process’, an Activity    5 Conclusion     4 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Love in Class Society and in Socialism   1 Introduction    2 Love in Pre-capitalist Class Society    3 Love and Capitalist Economy  3.1 Capitalist Property Relation, and Commodity Fetishism   3.2 Alienation      4 Love and Class Consciousness in Capitalism    5 Love, and Gender and Other Forms of Oppression in Capitalism    6 Love in a Socialist Society (and in the Anti-capitalist Movement)    7 Conclusion     5 The Post-truth Condition in Capitalist Society: Its Major Characteristics   1 Introduction    2 The Truth About Post-truth  2.1 Post-truth on a Spectrum   2.2 Lying in Post-truth Condition   2.3 Facts vs Feelings in Post-truth   2.4 Post-truth Relativism and Attitude to Truth   2.5 Post-truth Attitude towards Experts   2.6 Immorality and Demagogy of Post-truth      3 Philosophy of Post-truth: Postmodernism as an Ideological Precursor    4 Politics of Post-truth: Post-truth and Fascistic Tendencies    5 Conclusion     6 Towards a Marxist Theory of the Post-truth Condition   1 Introduction    2 Historical Materialism and Political Lying    3 Contradictions of Capitalism  3.1 Fundamental Contradictions   3.2 ‘Conjunctural’ Contradictions      4 Contradictions of Capitalist Imperialism    5 Opposition to Regulation, and Capitalist Politics    6 Capitalist Production of Lies as a Commodity    7 Media of Lies as Capitalist Commodity    8 Lying by the ‘Victims’ of Capitalism    9 Conclusion     7 Post-truth Phenomenon: a Concrete Study with a Reference to India   1 Introduction    2 Traits of India’s Post-truth Politics  2.1 Ideological and Political Lies\/Half-Truths   2.2 Accumulation of Lies by Means of Suppression of Dissent   2.3 Class-Blindness of Right-Wing Post-truthers      3 Explaining India’s Post-truth Phenomenon  3.1 Economic Misery   3.2 Countering Political Action by the Masses   3.3 Crisis of Bourgeois Politics   3.4 Capitalism’s Fascistic Agencies      4 A Critique of the Right-Wing Post-truth Politics and Thinking in India  4.1 The Right-Wing’s Denigration of Dissent   4.2 Culturalism and Communalism in Right-Wing Post-truth Politics      5 Conclusion     8 Conclusion   1 Brief Summary    2 Further Discussions  2.1 Explanations   2.2 Political Implications     Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210862911831,"sku":"9789004539976","price":121.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contradictions-of-capitalist-society-and-culture-dialectics-of-love-and-lying-9789004539976","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}