Time, labor, and social domination : a reinterpretation of Marx's critical theory / Moishe Postone.
Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by developing concepts aimed at grasping...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA :
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1993.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I.A critique of traditional Marxism. Ch. 1. Rethinking Marx's critique of capitalism. The Grundrisse: rethinking Marx's conception of capitalism and its overcoming. Ch. 2. Presuppositions of traditional Marxism. Value and labor. Ricardo and Marx. "Labor," wealth, and social constitution. The critique of society from the standpoint of labor. Labor and totality: Hegel and Marx. Ch. 3. The limits of traditional Marxism and the pessimistic turn of Critical Theory. Critique and contradiction. Friedrich Pollock and "the primacy of the political" Assumptions and dilemmas of Pollock's thesis. Max Horkheimer's pessimistic turn
- pt. II. Toward a reconstruction of the Marxian critique: the commodity. Ch. 4. Abstract labor. Requirements of a categorial reinterpretation. The historically determinate character of the Marxian critique. Abstract labor. Abstract labor and social mediation. Abstract labor and alienation. Abstract labor and the fetish. Social relations, labor, and nature
- Labor and instrumental action. Abstract and substantive totality. Ch. 5. Abstract time. The magnitude of value. Abstract time and social necessity. Value and material wealth. Abstract time. Forms of social mediation and forms of consciousness. Ch. 6. Habermas's critique of Marx. Habermas's early critique of Marx. The Theory of Communicative Action and Marx
- pt. III. Toward a reconstruction of the Marxian critique: capital. Ch. 7. Toward a theory of capital. Money. Capital. The critique of bourgeois civil society. The sphere of production. Ch. 8. The dialectic of labor and time. The immanent dynamic. Abstract time and historical time. The dialectic of transformation and reconstitution. Ch. 9. The trajectory of production. Surplus value and "economic growth" Classes and the dynamic of capitalism. Production and valorization. Substantive totality
- Ch. 10. Concluding considerations.