Behind the crisis [electronic resource] : Marx's dialectics of value and knowledge / by Guglielmo Carchedi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carchedi, Guglielmo.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 26.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marxian economics.

Dialectical materialism.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Much has been written since Capital was first published, and more recently after the demise of the Soviet Union and the consequent triumph of neoliberalism, about the irrelevance, inconsistency, and obsoleteness of Marx. This has been attributed to his unworkable method of inquiry. This book goes against the current. It introduces the issues that are presently most hotly debated, it evaluates them, and it groups them into four headings, each one of them corresponding to a chapter. At the same time, it submits a new reading of Marx’s method of social research and on this basis it argues that Marx’s work offers a solid foundation upon which to further develop a multi-faceted theory of crises highly relevant for the contemporary world.

Contents:

Foreword: on Marx's contemporary relevance

Method

The need for dialectics

Dialectical logic and social phenomena

The dialectics of individual and social phenomena

Class-analysis and the sociology of non-equilibrium

A dialectics of nature?

Formal logic and dialectical logic

Induction, deduction and verification

Debates

Recasting the issues

Abstract labour as the only source of (surplus-) value

The materiality of abstract labour

The tendential fall in the average profit-rate (ARP)

The transformation-'problem'

The alien rationality of homo economicus

Crises

Alternative explanations

The cyclical movement

The subprime debacle

Either Marx or Keynes

Subjectivity

Crisis-theory and the theory of knowledge

Neither information-society nor service-society

Individual knowledge

Social knowledge

Labour's knowledge

Knowledge and value

The general intellect

Science, technique and alien knowledge

Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge

Knowledge and transition.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references ([291]-298) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-12011-9

9786613120113

90-04-18855-X

OCLC:

729640068

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004189942.i-303 DOI