Reification, or, The anxiety of late capitalism / Timothy Bewes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bewes, Timothy.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.

Civilization, Modern.

Reality.

Social perception.

Philosophy, Modern.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Reification

Anxiety of late capitalism

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2002.

Contents:

Part 1 Fall

1 Obsolescence of a Concept 3

2 Marxist Anxieties 10

3 Reification and Colonialism 14

4 From Adorno to Jameson 20

5 Messianism, Historical Materialism, Post-structuralism 24

6 The Translation of God into Man 41

7 Marxism and the Hidden God 48

8 Post-structuralism and the Absent God 57

9 What is Imputed Class Consciousness? 62

10 Reification and Decolonization 69

11 Total Reification (I): Reading Fanon 81

12 Total Reification (II): Reading Lukacs 85

Part 2 Inversion

1 The Reflexive Character of Reification 93

2 Total Illusion: The Triumph of Capital 99

3 The 'Aesthetic Structure' of Reification 107

4 Post-structuralism: Anxiety Reified as Differance 111

5 Reflexive Modernization: Anxiety Reified as Risk 118

6 The Aesthetics of Incomprehensibility 124

7 Ambiguity and Utopia 130

8 Analogy of Religious and Commodity Fetishism 134

9 The Desire for Transcendence 143

10 Comment on Proust 148

11 Hierarchy of Mediation and Immediacy 153

12 The Virtue of Obsolescence 166

Part 3 Redemption

1 The Pleasure Tendency 181

2 Reification as Cultural Anxiety 191

3 On Reversibility 201

4 The Threatened Intimacy of Creation: Flannery O'Connor 215

5 The Coincidence of Contraries 230

6 Kierkegaard as a Theorist of Reification 242

7 Total Reification (III): Reading Hardt and Negri 248

8 Conclusion: Towards Intimacy 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-318) and index.

ISBN:

1859846858

1859844561

OCLC:

50519024