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The Adventures of the Commodity

By Anselm Jappe

The Adventures of the Commodity Philosophy

The Adventures of the Commodity

By Anselm Jappe

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
234
Release Date:
2023-11-16
Publication Date:
2023-11-16
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350381195
ISBN13:
9781350381193
Weight:
520 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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