Value in Marx [electronic resource] : The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marxian economics.

Value.

Local Subjects:

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marxian economics.

Value.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long prone to dogmatic disagreement, the question of value in Marx's thought-what value is, the purpose it serves, its application to real-world capitalism-requires renewal if Marx's work is to remain vibrant. In Value in Marx, George Henderson offers a lucid rereading of Marx that strips value of its turgid theoretical reduction and reframes it as an investigation into the tensions between social relations and forms as they are rather than as what they could otherwise become.Drawing on Marx's Capital and Grundrisse, Henderson shows how these volumes

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Did Marx Have a Theory of Value?; Part I; Chapter 1: The Value-Capital Couplet and How to Break It; Chapter 2: The Politics of Capitalist "Totality" in a More-Than-Capitalist World; Part II; Chapter 3: The End of Value (As We Know It); Chapter 4: From Necessity to Freedom and Back Again: Abjected Labor, Tainted Value; Part III; Chapter 5: The Value Hypothesis: Three Scenes for a Political Imaginary of Value; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-3968-3

OCLC:

833766959