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Inverted World : Fetish and Mystification in Marx's Critique of Political Economy.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ramas San Miguel, Clara.
Series:
Historical Materialism Book Series
Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.382
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Materialism.
Capitalism--Philosophy.
Capitalism.
Local Subjects:
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Boston : BRILL, 2026.
Summary:
This book offers a groundbreaking reconstruction of Marx's critique of political economy by positioning fetish and mystification as its core structural concepts, reshaping our understanding of capitalist totality and illuminating the philosophical stakes of Marx's critical project.
Contents:
Front Cover
‎Half-Title Page
‎Series Title Page
‎Title Page
‎Copyright Page
‎Contents
‎Foreword: From Fetishism to Materialism - New Perspectives on the Critique of Political Economy (Heinrich)
‎Preface
‎Works of Karl Marx Cited
‎Introduction: Marx's Inverted World
‎Chapter 1. On the Project of a Critique of Political Economy
‎Chapter 2. The Problem of Fetishism and Mystification in the Interpretation of the Critique of Political Economy
‎Chapter 3. Fetishism and Its Forms
‎1. The Core Form: The Commodity Fetishism
‎2. The Fetishism of Money
‎3. The Fetishism of Capital
‎Chapter 4. Mystification and Its Forms
‎1. The Core Form: The Mystification of Wages
‎2. The Mystification of Profit (or Interest)
‎3. The Mystification of Ground Rent
‎Chapter 5. The Structure of the Critique of Political Economy: Proposal for a Reconstruction
‎Chapter 6. Theory of Value and Fetishism
‎1. The Theory of Value: The Quantitative and Qualitative Perspective
‎2. The Immediate Relation between the Theory of Value and Fetishism
‎3. The Value-Form
‎Chapter 7. Theory of Surplus Value and Mystification
‎1. The Theory of Surplus Value: The Secret and the Appearance
‎2. The Immediate Relation between the Theory of Surplus Value and Mystification: The Trinity Formula, or the System of Illusion for an Inverted World
‎Chapter 8. Conclusions: Towards a Critical Materialism
‎Epilogue to the Second Spanish Edition
‎Bibliography
‎Index
Back Cover.
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Other Format:
Print version: Ramas San Miguel, Clara Inverted World
ISBN:
9789004758391
OCLC:
1587889076

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