Time Labor And Social Domination

Author : Moishe Postone,Louis Galambos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
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Release : 1996-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521565405

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Time, Labor, and Social Domination by Moishe Postone,Louis Galambos Pdf

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 the essential character and historical development of modern society, and also at overcoming the familiar dichotomies of structure and action, meaning and material life. These concepts lead him to an original analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of 'actually existing socialism'. According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reinterpretation entails the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. This reformulation, Postone argues, provides the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late twentieth-century capitalism.

Author : Moishe Postone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521565405

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Time, Labor, and Social Domination by Moishe Postone Pdf

In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of 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. These interpretations lead him to a very different analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of "actually existing socialism." According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the central core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reformulation relates the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. It provides the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late twentieth-century capitalism.

Author : Moishe Postone,Eric L. Santner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226676111

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Catastrophe and Meaning by Moishe Postone,Eric L. Santner Pdf

How should we understand the relation of the Holocaust to the broader historical processes of the century just ended? How do we explain the bearing of the Holocaust on problems of representation, memory, memorialization, and historical practice? These are some of the questions explored by an esteemed group of scholars in Catastrophe and Meaning, the most significant multiauthored book on the Holocaust in over a decade. This collection features essays that consider the role of anti-Semitism in the recounting of the Holocaust; the place of the catastrophe in the narrative of twentieth-century history; the questions of agency and victimhood that the Holocaust inspires; the afterlife of trauma in literature written about the tragedy; and the gaps in remembrance and comprehension that normal historical works fail to notice. Contributors: Omer Bartov, Dan Diner, Debòrah Dwork, Saul Friedländer, Geoffrey Hartman, Dominick LaCapra, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Anson Rabinbach, Frank Trommler, Shulamit Volkov, Froma Zeitlin

Author : William Clare Roberts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691180816

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Marx's Inferno by William Clare Roberts Pdf

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.

Author : Jim Sidanius,Felicia Pratto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521805406

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Social Dominance by Jim Sidanius,Felicia Pratto Pdf

This volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind numbingly difficult to eliminate? The answers to these questions are framed using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory. Social dominance theory argues that the major forms of intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are all basically derived from the basic human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. In essence, social dominance theory presumes that, beneath major and sometimes profound difference between different human societies, there is also a basic grammar of social power shared by all societies in common. We use social dominance theory in an attempt to identify the elements of this grammar and to understand how these elements interact and reinforce each other to produce and maintain group-based social hierarchy.

Author : Moishe Postone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:464861201

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Time, Labor, and Social Domination by Moishe Postone Pdf

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434469267

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Wage-Labour and Capital by Karl Marx Pdf

This volume contains an English translation of Karl Marx's influential essay.

Author : Guy Debord
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781617508301

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Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord Pdf

The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.

Author : Kathi Weeks
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822351122

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The Problem with Work by Kathi Weeks Pdf

The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509536122

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The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto by Slavoj Zizek Pdf

No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what relevance does it have for us today? In this slim book Slavoj Zizek argues that, while exploitation no longer occurs the way Marx described it, it has by no means disappeared; on the contrary, the profit once generated through the exploitation of workers has been transformed into rent appropriated through the privatization of the ‘general intellect’. Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have become extremely wealthy not because they are exploiting their workers but because they are appropriating the rent for allowing millions of people to participate in the new form of the ‘general intellect’ that they own and control. But, even if Marx’s analysis can no longer be applied to our contemporary world of global capitalism without significant revision, the fundamental problem with which he was concerned, the problem of the commons in all its dimensions – the commons of nature, the cultural commons, and the commons as the universal space of humanity from which no one should be excluded – remains as relevant as ever. This timely reflection on the enduring relevance of The Communist Manifesto will be of great value to everyone interested in the key questions of radical politics today.

Author : Arash Abazari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108834865

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Hegel's Ontology of Power by Arash Abazari Pdf

This book develops a genuinely critical theory of capitalism based on Hegel's Science of Logic.

Author : Jairus Banaji
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781642592115

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A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism by Jairus Banaji Pdf

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji’s new work reaches back centuries and traverses vast distances to argue that this leap was preceded by a long era of distinct “commercial capitalism”, which reorganised labor and production on a world scale to a degree hitherto rarely appreciated. Rather than a picture centred solely on Europe, we enter a diverse and vibrant world. Banaji reveals the cantons of Muslim merchants trading in Guangzhou since the eighth century, the 3,000 European traders recorded in Alexandria in 1216, the Genoese, Venetians and Spanish Jews battling for commercial dominance of Constantinople and later Istanbul. We are left with a rich and global portrait of a world constantly in motion, tied together and increasingly dominated by a pre-industrial capitalism. The rise of Europe to world domination, in this view, has nothing to do with any unique genius, but rather a distinct fusion of commercial capitalism with state power.

Author : N. Shippen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137354020

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Decolonizing Time by N. Shippen Pdf

Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.

Author : R. Albritton,J. Simoulidis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230500914

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New Dialectics and Political Economy by R. Albritton,J. Simoulidis Pdf

Many of the leading thinkers on dialectics in the Marxian tradition have collaborated here to put forward and debate challenging new perspectives on the nature and importance of dialectics. The issues dealt with range from the philosophical consideration of the precise nature of dialectical reasoning, to dialectics and economic theory, and to more concrete concerns such as how dialectics can help us think about globalization, freedom, inflation and subjectivity.

Author : Martin Hägglund
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101873731

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This Life by Martin Hägglund Pdf

Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald This Life offers a profoundly inspiring basis for transforming our lives, demonstrating that our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism. Philosopher Martin Hägglund argues that we need to cultivate not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. He shows that all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions: what matters is how we treat one another in this life and what we do with our time. Engaging with great philosophers from Aristotle to Hegel and Marx, literary writers from Dante to Proust and Knausgaard, political economists from Mill to Keynes and Hayek, and religious thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hägglund points the way to an emancipated life.