Accumulation and Subjectivity
Title | Accumulation and Subjectivity PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Benezra |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2022-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438487584 |
Since the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconceptualizing the relationship between political economy and the life of the subject. The fourteen essays in this volume show that, in order to understand the dynamics governing the extraction of wealth under contemporary capitalism, we also need to consider the collective subjects implied in this operation at an institutional, juridical, moral, and psychic level. More than merely setting the scene for social and political struggle, Accumulation and Subjectivity reveals Latin America to be a cauldron for thought for a critique of political economy and radical political change beyond its borders. Combining reflections on political philosophy, intellectual history, narrative, law, and film from the colonial period to the present, it provides a new conceptual vocabulary rooted in the material specificity of the region and, for this very reason, potentially translatable to other historical contexts. This collection will be of interest to scholars of Marxism, Latin American literary and cultural studies, and the intellectual history of the left.
The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy
Title | The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Read |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2022-04-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004515275 |
This book examines why Marxist philosophy will continue to be a central point of reference well beyond postmodernism and the Anthropocene.
Subjectivity in Political Economy
Title | Subjectivity in Political Economy PDF eBook |
Author | David P. Levine |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2005-06-23 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134706820 |
This book explores the way political economy understands human motivation. In it, the author argues that the assumptions typically made by economists regarding want and choice cannot adequately lay a foundation for answering important questions about the design of economic institutions and the appropriate use of markets. This volume offers an exciting and unusual contribution to political economy, offering a novel integration of the insights of political economy, philosophy, and psychology, applying them to vital foundational issues in political economy.
Recent Marxian Theory
Title | Recent Marxian Theory PDF eBook |
Author | John F. Sitton |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1996-07-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1438420218 |
This book brings together some of the more prominent recent analyses within the Marxian tradition that bear on the topics of class formation and social conflict in contemporary capitalism. After examining debates over historical agency, class structure, and electoral dynamics, it explores the provocative arguments of analytical Marxists, Claus Offe, Jürgen Habermas, and Immanuel Wallerstein. In light of these discussions, the author concludes that even if the variety of forces contemporary capitalism structurally generates do not promote the formation of a revolutionary "proletariat," class relations continue to be important for analyzing the historical trajectory of, and challenges to, capitalism—although not in the way that Marx imagined.
Accumulation
Title | Accumulation PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Barragry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity
Title | Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Starosta |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2015-11-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004306609 |
In Marx ́s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Guido Starosta develops a materialist inquiry into the social and historical determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Through a methodologically-minded critical reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy, from the early writings up to the Grundrisse and Capital, this study shows that the outcome of the historical movement of the objectified form of social mediation, which has turned into the very alienated subject of social life (i.e., capital), is to develop, as its own immanent determination, the constitution of the (self-abolishing) working class as a revolutionary subject. A crucial element in this intellectual endeavour is the focus on the intrinsic connection between the specifically dialectical form of social science and its radical transformative content.
The Micro-Politics of Capital
Title | The Micro-Politics of Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Read |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2003-09-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791458440 |
Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogation of subjectivity.