Adventures of the Commodity, The: For a Critique of Value - Couverture souple

Livre 7 sur 8: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society

Jappe, Anselm

 
9781350381186: Adventures of the Commodity, The: For a Critique of Value
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ISBN 10 : 1350381187 ISBN 13 : 9781350381186
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

The Adventures of the Commodity explores conceptions of a capitalist society that is ordered entirely around the exigencies of the commodity, money and labour. A distinctive introduction to critiques of capitalism and commodity society, this book illuminates the difficult concept of 'abstract' labour. Merging this with the social critique known as the “critique of value”, first developed by Robert Kurz and the German journal, Krisis, in the 1990s, Anselm Jappe highlights in particular a central, and often contested, aspect of this critique: the claim that, for several decades now, capitalism has entered into a crisis that is not cyclical, but terminal. If a society that is founded upon the fetishism of the commodity, on the value created by the abstract side of labour and represented in money, this is the result of the fact that its primary internal contradiction has reached a point of no return: the replacement of living labour, the only source of ‘value’, by ever-more sophisticated technologies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anselm Jappe is Professor of Philosophy and teacher of aesthetics at the Fine Arts Academy, Italy. He is a key theorist of the critique of value-dissociation and also a leading researcher on the Situationist International. He is the author of numerous works of anti-capitalist critical theory such as Guy Debord (1993), L'avant-garde inacceptable (2005) and The Writing on the Wall: On The Decomposition of Capitalism and its Critics (2017).

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1350381187
ISBN 13 
9781350381186
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
234
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9781350381193: Adventures of the Commodity, The: For a Critique of Value

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ISBN 10 :  1350381195 ISBN 13 :  9781350381193
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
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