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Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater - Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow - and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960's, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly engagement to date with Benjamin's "Program for a Proletarian Children's Theatre," the first major consideration of Godard's La chinoise as a "theatrical" work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene. Passionate Amateurs contributes to the development of theater and performance studies in a way that moves beyond debates over the differences between theater and performance in order to tell a powerful, historically grounded story about what theater and performance are for in the modern world.

Communism and culture. --- Theater and society. --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Theater --- Culture and communism --- Culture --- Social status --- Social aspects --- literature --- theatre studies --- Capitalism --- Communism --- Karl Marx

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Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern "social Hell." In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world.

Capitalism --- Political aspects. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Marx, Karl, --- Capital. --- Charles Fourier. --- Dante. --- G. A. Cohen. --- Inferno. --- Karl Marx. --- Owenism. --- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. --- Robert Owen. --- Saint-Simonians. --- akrasia. --- anarchy. --- association. --- capital accumulation. --- capitalism. --- capitalist exploitation. --- capitalist mode of production. --- collective force. --- commerce. --- domination. --- expropriation. --- force. --- fraud. --- labor power. --- labor. --- market society. --- money. --- overwork. --- political economy. --- political theory. --- primitive accumulation. --- republicanism. --- separatism. --- social Hell. --- socialism. --- surplus labor. --- treachery. --- wages. --- workers' movement. --- working class.

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This work depicts Otto Bauer as the main politician of the SDAP and attempts a critical-analytical interpretation of his socio-political theories, which are shown against the background of the debates within the First and Second Internationals, political events within the SDAP, the international workers’ movement, and the socio-historical processes in Austria and Europe at the time. The book emphasises Bauer’s analyses, philosophical and historiosophical arguments, his theories of imperialism and the national question, his deliberations on possible ways to socialism, the war question, and fascism, as well as his political activity. Otto Bauer (1881-1938) is also a treatise of the ideological, intellectual, cultural and political movement shaped by Bauer: Austromarxism. First published in German by Peter Lang as Otto Bauer: Studien zur social-politischen Philosophie, Frankfurt, 2005.

Socialism --- Austro-Marxist school --- Austro-Marxist school. --- Socialism. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Bauer, Otto, --- Austria. --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- Austro-Marxist sociology --- Austromarxism --- Austromarxian school of sociology --- Marxian school of sociology --- באואר, אוטא --- באואר, אוטו --- באואר, אוטו, --- באוער, אטא --- בואר, אוטו, --- al-Nims --- Alpen- und Donau-Reichsgaue --- Ao-ti-li --- Austrian Republic --- Ausztria --- Autriche (Republic) --- Avstrii͡ --- Avstrija --- Avusturya --- Deutschösterreich --- German Austria --- Österreich --- Ostmark --- Østrig --- Osṭriyah --- Ōsutoria --- Rakousko --- Republic of Austria --- Republik Österreich --- Europe --- Austromarksizm --- Polityka wewnętrzna --- Socjaldemokratyzm --- Bauer, Otto --- 1801-1900 --- 1901-2000 --- 1901-1914 --- 1914-1918 --- 1918-1939 --- Austria --- Otto Bauer --- socialism --- history --- philosophy --- moral --- imperialism --- nation --- democracy --- revolution ("third way") --- state --- fascism --- war --- SDAP --- 1869-1938 --- party --- politician --- Austrian --- Österreich --- Österreichische --- Politiker --- Denker,Austomarxismus --- Sozialismus --- Moral --- Imperialismus --- Nation --- Demokratie --- Revolution ("dritten Weg") --- Saat --- Faschismus --- Krieg --- Partei --- Bourgeoisie --- Capitalism --- Karl Marx --- Working class

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Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions in a single volume for the first time. Economic Lives shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and preferences, economic actions emerge, persist, and are transformed by our relations to others. Distilling three decades of research, the book offers a distinctive vision of economic activity that brings out the hidden meanings and social actions behind the supposedly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, and asset transfer. Economic Lives ranges broadly from life insurance marketing, corporate ethics, household budgets, and migrant remittances to caring labor, workplace romance, baby markets, and payments for sex. These examples demonstrate an alternative approach to explaining how we manage economic activity--as well as a different way of understanding why conventional economic theory has proved incapable of predicting or responding to recent economic crises. Providing an important perspective on the recent past and possible futures of a growing field, Economic Lives promises to be widely read and discussed.

Economics --- Social values. --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Values --- Sociology --- Social values --- Sociological aspects --- E-books --- Karl Marx. --- United States. --- adoption market. --- adult-run enterprises. --- asset transfer. --- asset transfers. --- baby markets. --- baby selling. --- capitalism. --- carework. --- child insurance market. --- children's labor. --- children. --- circuits. --- commerce. --- commercial markets. --- commodification. --- compensation. --- consumption. --- credit associations. --- cultural meaning. --- cultural resistance. --- cultural understanding. --- culture. --- currency. --- death. --- distribution. --- domestic money. --- earmarking. --- economic activities. --- economic activity. --- economic life. --- economic models. --- economic organizations. --- economic performance. --- economic practices. --- economic processes. --- economic sociology. --- economic transactions. --- economic value. --- economy. --- entitlements. --- ethical codes. --- ethical questions. --- ethics. --- ethnicвacial communities. --- exchange. --- exploitation. --- friendship. --- gifts. --- households. --- immigrant enterprises. --- insurance policies. --- interpersonal relations. --- intimacy. --- intimate labor. --- intimate relations. --- intimate relationships. --- kinship. --- life insurance. --- market money. --- market transactions. --- markets. --- married women. --- migrants. --- monetary payments. --- monetary transactions. --- monetary transfers. --- money. --- neclassical economics. --- neoclassical economics. --- organizational performance. --- paid care. --- payment. --- personal relations. --- power. --- production. --- remittance networks. --- retail. --- risky exchanges. --- sacralization. --- sexual intimacy. --- sexual relationships. --- social arrangements. --- social order. --- social relations. --- social relationships. --- sociology. --- solidarity. --- special monies. --- surrogacy market. --- transactions. --- unpaid care. --- valuation. --- work. --- Economics - Sociological aspects --- Social Values --- Social values - Economic aspects --- Culture - Economic aspects