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Introduction: Basic Concepts, Content and StructurePart 1. The Legacy of Critical Rationalism: An Attempted Maturity1. Kant, Nietzshe: Maturity, Genealogy, and Freedom2. Weber's 'Suspended' Rationalism, Heidegger's Conservative Turn and Interwar Perspectives in Europe3. Archaeology, Genealogy, Alterity, Discourse, and Power: The Legacy and Influence of Foucault 4. Postmodernity and Its Discontents: Liquidity and Uncertainty. Castells, Lyotard, and Bauman, on the Landscape of Contested Identity and Performativity5. Conclusions and Criticisms: The Case for a Complex Topography Part 2. Alternative Foundations for a Mature Concept of Community6. Automaticity and the Role of the Adaptive Unconscious7. The Case for Basic Emotion Theory -- Contrasted with Anthropological and Historical Perspectives8. Towards an Ecology of the Senses 9. Evolutionary Psychology 10. Selective, Serial, and Parallel Processing in Theories of Adaptive Cognition11. An Ecological Approach to Representation and Language 12. Concluding Remarks to Part 2Part 3. Constants and Dynamics in Complex Social Expression 13. The Social as a Theatre of the Unconscious, Preconscious, and Conscious Assessment and Deliberation14. Basic, Developmental, and Constructivist Theories of Affect and Consciousness15. Auto-exo-reference: Representation and Language in Mediated Relation to an Environment and the Processes of Self-reference16. Forms of Solidarity: The Topology of Power and Its Affective and Cognitive Consequences17. The Dynamics of Conservatism and Liberalism: A Contested Common Moral Ground18. A Post-humanist Epilogue: The Making of Things; The Complex Topography of Agency

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Basic concepts, content and structure -- PART 1: The legacy of critical rationalism: An attempted maturity -- 1. Kant, Nietzsche: Maturity, genealogy, and freedom -- 2. Weber's 'suspended' rationalism, Heidegger's conservative turn and interwar perspectives in Europe -- 3. Archaeology, genealogy, alterity, discourse, and power: The legacy and influence of Foucault -- 4. Postmodernity and its discontents: Liquidity and uncertainty. Castells, Lyotard, and Bauman, on the landscape of contested identity and performativity -- 5. Conclusions and criticisms: The case for a complex topography -- PART 2: Alternative foundations for a mature concept of community -- 6. Automaticity and the role of the adaptive unconscious -- 7. The case for basic emotion theory - contrasted with anthropological and historical perspectives -- 8. Towards an ecology of the senses -- 9. Evolutionary psychology -- 10. Selective, serial, and parallel processing in theories of adaptive cognition -- 11. An ecological approach to representation and language -- 12. Concluding remarks to part 2 -- PART 3: Constants and dynamics in complex social expression -- 13. The social as a theatre of the unconscious, preconscious, and conscious assessment and deliberation -- 14. Basic, developmental, and constructivist theories of affect and consciousness -- 15. Auto-exo-reference: Representation and language in mediated relation to an environment and the processes of self-reference -- 16. Forms of solidarity: The topology of power and its affective and cognitive consequences -- 17. The dynamics of conservatism and liberalism: A contested common moral ground -- 18. A post-humanist epilogue: The making of things -- the complex topography of agency.

"Emotions, Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious argues for the need to consider many other factors, drawn from disciplines such as socio-biology, evolutionary psychology, the study of the emotions, the adaptive unconscious, the senses and conscious deliberation in analysing the complex topography of social action and the making of things. These factors are taken as ecological conditions that shape the contemporary expression of complex societies, not as constraints on human plasticity Without 'foundations' , complex society cannot exist nor less evolve. This is the familiar pairing from complexity theory: path dependency and dynamic emergence. Inter-disciplinary and complexity perspectives need to be incorporated into the social sciences. Routinely, sociologists think of social phenomena as a distinct field, expressed in the term: the 'social construction of' without apparent need to refer to other material, biological, psychological, material or ecological conditions or agents. This book shows how the familiar sociological dynamics of identity, solidarity, differentiation and communication are shaped through the persistent interaction of unconscious and affective processing with conscious deliberation in newly emergent contexts. It is this re-expression, not the surpassing, of human characteristics in contemporary social action that needs to re-inform a complex, ecological approach to the theory and methodologies of the social sciences. The book is intended for a postgraduate/research audience and doctoral students to introduce and synthesise inter-disciplinary contributions to research into complexity theory in the social sciences"--

The globalization of production and its shift to low-wage countries is the most significant and dynamic transformation of the neoliberal era. Its fundamental driving force is what some economists call "global labor arbitrage": the efforts by firms in Europe, North America, and Japan to cut costs and boost profits by replacing higher-waged domestic labor with cheaper foreign labor, achieved either through emigration of production ("outsourcing," as used here) or through immigration of workers. Reduction in tariffs and removal of barriers to capital flows have spurred the migration of production to low-wage countries, but militarization of borders and rising xenophobia have had the opposite effect on the migration of workers from these countries&mdash;not stopping it altogether, but inhibiting its flow and reinforcing migrants' vulnerable, second-class status.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-3" title="Vol. 67, No. 3: July 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

The globalization of production and its shift to low-wage countries is the most significant and dynamic transformation of the neoliberal era. Its fundamental driving force is what some economists call global labor arbitrage: the efforts by firms in Europe, North America, and Japan to cut costs and boost profits by replacing higher-waged domestic labor with cheaper foreign labor, achieved either through emigration of production or through immigration of workers. Global wage differentials, in large measure resulting from suppression of the free movement of labor, provide a distorted reflection of global differences in the rate of exploitation. The globalization of production is reflected in an enormous expansion of the power and reach of transnational corporations, with the great majority owned by capitalists resident in imperialist countries. The globalization of production has transformed not just the production of commodities but of social relations in general, and especially of the social relation that defines capitalism: the capital-labor relation, which is increasingly a relation between northern capital and southern labor. Adapted from the source document.