Is Marx an economic thinker? In this groundbreaking reading of Marx, which also functions as a trenchant critique of capitalism as it exists in society, Werner Bonefeld pushes the boundaries of Marxist critique to show how Critical Theory can engage productively with Marxism. Drawing a path between Adorno and the Frankfurt School's work on capitalism and social value, and Marx's original writings, Bonefeld charts new waters for critical theory today. By bringing production and reproduction, primitive accumulation, politics and crisis together into a single frame Bonefeld shows how the modern worker is the dispossessed producer of surplus value in the world market. In doing so he shows Marx's relevance for modern capitalist economies and societies.
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Dedication Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy Section I: On the Critique of Political Economy as a Critical Social Theory 2. Political Economy and Social Constitution: On the Meaning of Critique 3. Society as Subject and Society as Object: On Social Praxis Section II: Value: On Social Wealth and Class 4. Capital and Labour: Primitive Accumulation and the Force of Value 5. Class and Struggle: On the false Society 6. Time is Money: On Abstract Labour Section III: Capital, World Market and State 7. State, World Market and Society 8. On the State of Political Economy: Political Form and the Force of Law Section IV Anti-Capitalism: Theology and Negative Practice 9. Anti-Capitalism and the Elements of Antisemitism: On Theology and Real Abstractions 10. Conclusion: On the Elements of Subversion and Negative Reason Selected Bibliography Index
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Bonefeld successfully both reveals the supposedly innate contradictions of a system that is imposed externally on us and succeeds in dissecting the most pivotal contradiction, that is, how our own labor is simultaneously organized as concrete and abstract labor.
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A groundbreaking work which develops a Marxist critique of political economy as critical social theory.
Offers a critique of the political in political economy as the concentrated force of economy
Critical Theory in Contemporary Society is a series of monographs that explore the relation between contemporary society as a complex and highly differentiated phenomenon on the one hand, and critical theory as a correspondingly sophisticated methodology for studying and understanding it on the other. Volumes in the series highlight why critical theory offers appropriate concepts for understanding political movements, socio-economic conflicts, and state-institutions in an ever more global world, and why critical theory needs updating to keep pace with the realities of the 21st century. SERIES UPDATE: While these titles are still available from Bloomsbury, all future titles in this series will be published by Manchester University Press. For information on forthcoming titles and for more up-to-date news about this series, please visit the Manchester University Press website at: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
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ISBN
9781441161390
Publisert
2014-07-03
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Bloomsbury Academic USA
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517 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
256

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Werner Bonefeld teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK. His work contributed to the development of the internationally recognised Open Marxism school.