Robert Kirsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Kirsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirsch |
| SIGNATURE | KIRSCH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salisbury University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward a Theory of Economic Development as a Mode of Flash Capitalism
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life
Manufacturing Alienation in the Bakken
This article complicates the neoclassical factors of production––land, labor, and capital. Instead, it uses Georges Bataille's "general" economy, which situates all human activity within the energy system of the sun. This means that human domination of nature, and its resultant alienation, must be manufactured within the system of production. Also, a general economy's necessity of profitlessly consuming surplus energy recasts extractive sites as …
A ustro‐ M arxism
Austro‐Marxism was a reformist theory of Marxism influential during the first half of the twentieth century. Theoretically, it sits between the German model of democratic socialism on the right and revolutionary Bolshevism on the left. Austro‐Marxism worked to preserve the democratic values of a mass labor movement through parliamentary reform, while at the same time it attempted to foster a revolutionary class consciousness that would prepare th…
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
The “Digital Revolution” Reconsidered - NPS Christian Bay Best Paper Award Apsa 2015, San Francisco, CA
This article responds to the 2014 American Political Science Association Annual Conference’s theme of “Politics After the Digital Revolution.” It first gives a brief assessment of how the discipline of political science has reacted to the digital revolution. It then seeks to couch the putative revolution in Thorstein Veblen’s theory of a “machine process” in order to recast it less as a discrete phenomenon to be dealt with by the discipline, but …
The Rationality of Philosophy
This never-before published lecture of Herbert Marcuse speaks to an issue that is interwoven throughout his entire oeuvre: the role of philosophy in social transformation. This is perhaps a surpris
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert KirschRobert Kirsch is an instructor of philosophy at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA. He focuses on applying critical political theory to economic and fiscal policies of advanced industrial democracies, especially sovereign debt markets
The Rationality of Philosophy
This never-before published lecture of Herbert Marcuse speaks to an issue that is interwoven throughout his entire oeuvre: the role of philosophy in social transformation. This is perhaps a surpris
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert KirschRobert Kirsch is an instructor of philosophy at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA. He focuses on applying critical political theory to economic and fiscal policies of advanced industrial democracies, especially sovereign debt markets
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert KirschRobert Kirsch is an instructor of philosophy at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA. He focuses on applying critical political theory to economic and fiscal policies of advanced industrial democracies, especially sovereign debt markets
The “Digital Revolution” Reconsidered - NPS Christian Bay Best Paper Award Apsa 2015, San Francisco, CA
This article responds to the 2014 American Political Science Association Annual Conference’s theme of “Politics After the Digital Revolution.” It first gives a brief assessment of how the discipline of political science has reacted to the digital revolution. It then seeks to couch the putative revolution in Thorstein Veblen’s theory of a “machine process” in order to recast it less as a discrete phenomenon to be dealt with by the discipline, but …
The Rationality of Philosophy
This never-before published lecture of Herbert Marcuse speaks to an issue that is interwoven throughout his entire oeuvre: the role of philosophy in social transformation. This is perhaps a surpris
A ustro‐ M arxism
Austro‐Marxism was a reformist theory of Marxism influential during the first half of the twentieth century. Theoretically, it sits between the German model of democratic socialism on the right and revolutionary Bolshevism on the left. Austro‐Marxism worked to preserve the democratic values of a mass labor movement through parliamentary reform, while at the same time it attempted to foster a revolutionary class consciousness that would prepare th…
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
Manufacturing Alienation in the Bakken
This article complicates the neoclassical factors of production––land, labor, and capital. Instead, it uses Georges Bataille's "general" economy, which situates all human activity within the energy system of the sun. This means that human domination of nature, and its resultant alienation, must be manufactured within the system of production. Also, a general economy's necessity of profitlessly consuming surplus energy recasts extractive sites as …
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life
Toward a Theory of Economic Development as a Mode of Flash Capitalism
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