Value Without Fetish

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Publisher : Historical Materialism Book
ISBN 13 : 9789004297388
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (973 download)

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Book Synopsis Value Without Fetish by : Elena Louisa Lange

Download or read book Value Without Fetish written by Elena Louisa Lange and published by Historical Materialism Book. This book was released on 2021 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Value Without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō's (1897-1977) theory of 'pure capitalism' in the light of the method and object of Marx's Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production/reproduction, and crisis in Uno's central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his departure from Marx's central insights about the fetish character of the capitalist mode of production -- a departure that Lange shows can be traced back to the failed epistemology of value developed in Uno's earliest writings. By disavowing the complex relation between value and fetish that structures Marx's critique, Uno adopts the paradigms of neoclassical theories to present an apology rather than a critique of capitalism"--

Value without Fetish

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004449906
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Value without Fetish by : Elena Louisa Lange

Download or read book Value without Fetish written by Elena Louisa Lange and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his departure from Marx’s central insights about the fetish character of the capitalist mode of production – a departure that Lange shows can be traced back to the failed epistemology of value developed in Uno’s earliest writings. By disavowing the complex relation between value and fetish that structures Marx’s critique, Uno adopts the paradigms of neoclassical theories to present an apology rather than a critique of capitalism.

Fetishism and the Theory of Value

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030561232
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Fetishism and the Theory of Value by : Desmond McNeill

Download or read book Fetishism and the Theory of Value written by Desmond McNeill and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of Marx’s critique of the capitalist system, in which value is simply equated with market price. It includes chapters specifically on the environment and financialisation, and presents Marx’s qualitative theory of value and the associated concept of fetishism in a clear and comprehensive manner. Section I demonstrates how fetishism developed in Marx’s writing from a journalistic metaphor to an analytical device central to his critique. In Section II, commodity fetishism is distinguished from other forms: of money, capital and interest-bearing capital. There follows an analysis of Marx’s complex attempt to distinguish his argument from that of Ricardo, and Samuel Bailey. The section ends with a discussion of the ontological status of value: as a social rather than a natural phenomenon. Section III considers the merits of understanding value by analogy with language, and critically assesses the merits of structural Marxism. Section IV challenges Marx’s emphasis solely on production, and considers also exchange and consumption as social relations. Section V critically assesses recent Marx-inspired literature relating to the two key crises of our time, finance and the environment, and identifies strong similarities between the key analytical questions that have been debated in each case.

East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317418581
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories by : Joyce C.H. Liu

Download or read book East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories written by Joyce C.H. Liu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading scholars from around the world suggest that radical ideologies have shaped complex historical processes in East Asia by examining how intellectuals and activists interpreted, rethought and criticized Marxism in East Asia. The contributors to this volume ask how we can use Marxism to understand East Asia in a global capitalist world, and where the problems that Marxism highlighted, including imperialism, domination and inequality, are increasingly prevalent. The volume draws on various disciplines to reinterpret Marx, and shed light on the complex dynamics of global capitalism in various historical/national contexts. The distinguished contributors illuminate, rethink and make accessible highly complex Marxist concepts, such as the question of class contradiction, the temporalities of capitalism, real and formal subsumption, relative surplus value and the commodity form, the question of class and the proletariat. At a time when people around the world are struggling to cope with the crises of global capitalism, this volume on regional responses to capitalism is especially welcome. It will be of interest to students and scholars of East Asian studies, social and political theory, sociology and globalization studies.

Absent Without Leave

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674212701
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)

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Book Synopsis Absent Without Leave by : Denis Hollier

Download or read book Absent Without Leave written by Denis Hollier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explore the French writers and critics of the 1930s and 1940s, who were to shape French literature. It studies the prehistory of postmodernism, looking at the main figures in French literature before the age of anxiety gave way to the era of

The Politics of Time in China and Japan

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000608514
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Time in China and Japan by : Viren Murthy

Download or read book The Politics of Time in China and Japan written by Viren Murthy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China, East Asian intellectuals and governments constantly find new political meanings in their traditions. The essays illuminate how throughout Chinese and Japanese history, thinkers constantly weaved together nationalism, internationalism and a politics of time. This volume explores a broad range of subjects such as premodern and early modern attempts to conjure a politics of Confucianism, twentieth-century Japanese Marxist interpretations of Buddhism and Japanese and Chinese endeavors to imagine a new world order. In sum, this book shows us why understanding East Asian pasts are essential to making sense of ideological trends in contemporary China and Japan. For example, without understanding Confucianism and how modern intellectuals in China grappled with this body of thought, we would be unable to make sense of the Chinese government’s current promotion of the Chinese classics. This book will interest students and scholars of political science, history, Asian studies, sociology and philosophy.

The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509536124
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto by : Slavoj Zizek

Download or read book The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto written by Slavoj Zizek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Japanese Discourses on the Marxian Theory of Finance

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030833240
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Japanese Discourses on the Marxian Theory of Finance by : Kei Ehara

Download or read book Japanese Discourses on the Marxian Theory of Finance written by Kei Ehara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume traces the development of the Marxian theory of finance in Japan. Japanese Marxists have long been engaged in this field of study, yet their achievements are hardly known in other languages. Japanese Discourses on the Marxian Theory of Finance brings together in English for the first time six core essays essential to the understanding of the history and development of Japanese Marxian economics. Part I considers the so-called Uno-Miyake debate, which shaped the direction of the research in postwar Japan. Part II includes the three core essays influenced by Uno, including an essay by Shigekatsu Yamaguchi, who introduced a new method to systematically deal with “credit creation” which must be duly taken into consideration if scholars are to analyze today’s “financialization." Finally, the last two essays follow from Yamaguchi’s influential theory to consider the relation of banking with the capital market to complete the theory of finance in Marxian economics.

The Picture of Abjection

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253027772
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis The Picture of Abjection by : Tina Chanter

Download or read book The Picture of Abjection written by Tina Chanter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A timely and important project that changes our understanding of the role of abjection both in cultural politics and in the structure of film.” —Ewa Ziarek, State University of New York at Buffalo Tina Chanter resolves a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between “gaze theory” approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the position of the viewer and thereby take account of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Chanter argues that abjection is the unthought ground of fetishistic theories. If the feminine has been the privileged excluded other of psychoanalytic theory, fueled by the myth of castration and the logic of disavowal, when fetishism is taken up by race theory, or cultural theory, the multiple and fluid registers of abjection are obscured. By mobilizing a theory of abjection, the book shows how the appeal to phallic, fetishistic theories continues to reify the hegemonic categories of race, class, sexuality, and gender, as if they stood as self-evident categories. “An intriguing read, especially for those who favor psychological models of criticism in film theory . . . Recommended.” —Choice

The Fetish Revisited

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002433
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fetish Revisited by : J. Lorand Matory

Download or read book The Fetish Revisited written by J. Lorand Matory and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.

Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804742733
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Book Synopsis Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings by : Jean Baudrillard

Download or read book Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings written by Jean Baudrillard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of Baudrillard's work, this new edition adds examples from after 1985.

The Problem of the Fetish

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226821811
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis The Problem of the Fetish by : William Pietz

Download or read book The Problem of the Fetish written by William Pietz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, and law, he analyzes the relationship between the fetish and value, violence, sacrifice, and debt. To accompany Pietz's seven essays, this long-awaited volume includes a foreword by Francesco Pellizzi, editor of RES, the journal in which several of the essays originally appeared, and it also includes an introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka, who provide an invaluable guide to Pietz's thought. This book will speak to Pietz's multidisciplinary readership, continuing his legacy of engaging with questions of material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introducing the work of a powerful theorist to new generations of scholars and thinkers"--

Sensoria

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788735072
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Sensoria written by McKenzie Wark and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design, Politics, the Environment: a survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the anthropocene As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. The authors include: Sianne Ngai, Kodwo Eshun, Lisa Nakamura, Hito Steyerl, Yves Citton, Randy Martin, Jackie Wang, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Achille Mbembe, Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Eyal Weizman, Cory Doctorow, Benjamin Bratton, Tiziana Terranova, Keller Easterling, Jussi Parikka. Wark argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture, the different notions of how we create such things, and the impact that the machines that we devise have had upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis.

Immanent Externalities

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004522476
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Immanent Externalities by : Rebecca Carson

Download or read book Immanent Externalities written by Rebecca Carson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental degradation, crises in care and the predations of finance capital impose new challenges to human reproduction. It is imperative to understand their roots in capitalism. But how best to do so? This book develops the concept of ‘immanent externalities’ to grasp the non-capitalist life processes produced by – and necessary for – capitalist reproduction. Immanent Externalities thus considers the category of reproduction by means of a philosophical re-reading of the three volumes of Marx’s Capital. In doing so, the book locates capitalism’s fundamental contradiction as that between the reproduction of profit-driven activity and ecologically situated human life, suggesting new orientations for theory and practice today.

Marx at 200

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100007210X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Marx at 200 by : Gilbert Faccarello

Download or read book Marx at 200 written by Gilbert Faccarello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides new vistas on Karl Marx’s political economy, philosophy and politics on the occasion of his 200th birthday. Often using hitherto unknown material from the recently published Marx- Engels Gesamtausgabe (the MEGA2 edition), the contributions throw new light on Marx’s works and activities, the sources he used and the discussions he had, correcting received opinions on his doctrines. The themes dealt with include Marx’s concepts of alienation and commodity fetishism, the labour theory of value and the theory of exploitation, Marx’s studies of capital accumulation and economic growth and his analysis of economic crises and of the labour contract. Novel developments in the reception of his works in France and the UK conclude the volume. This book was originally published as a special issue of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807898414
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by : Michael T. Taussig

Download or read book The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America written by Michael T. Taussig and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the commodities they produce. A new chapter for this anniversary edition features a discussion of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille that extends Taussig's ideas about the devil-pact metaphor.

Marx’s Not-Capital

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031584147
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Marx’s Not-Capital by : Benjamin Tetler

Download or read book Marx’s Not-Capital written by Benjamin Tetler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: