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The Adventures of the Commodity: For a Critique of Value (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society)

Anselm Jappe
4.9/5 (34037 ratings)
Description: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 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 the replacement of living labour, the only source of 'value', by ever-more sophisticated technologies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Adventures of the Commodity: For a Critique of Value (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society). To get started finding The Adventures of the Commodity: For a Critique of Value (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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The Adventures of the Commodity: For a Critique of Value (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society)

Anselm Jappe
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Description: 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 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 the replacement of living labour, the only source of 'value', by ever-more sophisticated technologies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Adventures of the Commodity: For a Critique of Value (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society). To get started finding The Adventures of the Commodity: For a Critique of Value (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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1350381217

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