Marx's capital, method and revolutionary subjectivity / by Guido Starosta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starosta, Guido, author.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 112.

Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 112

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marxian economics.

Dialectical materialism.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Kapital.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 .

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction: On the Current State of Revolutionary Theory

The Dialectic of Alienated Labour and the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Paris Manuscripts

The Overcoming of Philosophy and the Development of a Materialist Science

Marx on Proudhon: The Critique of Dialectical Logic and the Political Determination of Science as Practical Criticism

The Commodity Form and the Dialectical Method

The Role and Place of Commodity Fetishism in Marx’s Dialectical Exposition in Capital

The Commodity Form, Subjectivity and the Practical Nature of Defetishising Critique

Capital Accumulation and Class Struggle: On the Content and Form of Social Reproduction in Its Alienated Form

Real Subsumption and the Genesis of the Revolutionary Subject

By Way of a Conclusion: Further Explorations into the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30660-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004306608 DOI