Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason (Critical Theory and Contemporary Society)

Werner Bonefeld

0/5 ( ratings)

Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of political economy is a thoroughly subversive business. It rejects the appearance of economic reality as a natural thing, argues that economy has not independent existence, expounds economy as political economy, and rejects as conformist rebellion those anti-capitalist perspectives that derive their rationality from the existing conceptuality of society. Subversion focuses on human conditions. Its critical subject is society unaware of itself. This book develops Marx's critique of political economy as negative theory of society. It does not conform to the patterns of the world and demands that society rids itself of all the muck of ages and founds itself anew.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 2014

ISBN 13: 9781441161390

Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason (Critical Theory and Contemporary Society)

Werner Bonefeld

0/5 ( ratings)

Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of political economy is a thoroughly subversive business. It rejects the appearance of economic reality as a natural thing, argues that economy has not independent existence, expounds economy as political economy, and rejects as conformist rebellion those anti-capitalist perspectives that derive their rationality from the existing conceptuality of society. Subversion focuses on human conditions. Its critical subject is society unaware of itself. This book develops Marx's critique of political economy as negative theory of society. It does not conform to the patterns of the world and demands that society rids itself of all the muck of ages and founds itself anew.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 2014

ISBN 13: 9781441161390

More books from Werner Bonefeld

Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future: Class, Struggle, Commons

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays in Post-Political Politics

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Open Marxism, Volume 1: Dialectics and History

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Global Capital, National State, And The Politics Of Money

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Strong State and the Free Economy

Post Fordism And Social Form: A Marxist Debate On The Post Fordist State

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Open Marxism, Volume 2: Theory and Practice

Human Dignity: Social Autonomy And The Critique Of Capitalism

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems

Açık Marksizm

Open Marxism, Volume 3: Emancipating Marx

Global Restructuring, State, Capital & Labour: Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives

Adorno and Neoliberalism: The Critique of Exchange Society

The Recomposition of the British State During the 1980s

The Politics of Change: Globalization, Ideology and Critique

Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism

Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy

Prvotna akumulacija: med zgodovino in konceptom

A Major Crisis?: The Politics of Economic Policy in Britain in the 1990s

Rate this book!

Write a review?