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Behind the crisis : Marx's dialectics of value and knowledge / by Guglielmo Carchedi

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Carchedi, Guglielmo
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
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1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrations
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Foreword: on Marx's contemporary relevance -- Method -- The need for dialectics -- Dialectical logic and social phenomena -- The dialectics of individual and social phenomena -- Class-analysis and the sociology of non-equilibrium -- A dialectics of nature? -- Formal logic and dialectical logic -- Induction, deduction and verification -- Debates -- Recasting the issues -- Abstract labour as the only source of (surplus- ) value -- The materiality of abstract labour -- The tendential fall in the average profit-rate (ARP) -- The transformation-'problem' -- The alien rationality of homo economicus -- Crises -- Alternative explanations -- The cyclical movement -- The subprime debacle -- Either Marx or Keynes -- Subjectivity -- Crisis-theory and the theory of knowledge -- Neither information-society nor service-society -- Individual knowledge -- Social knowledge -- Labour's knowledge -- Knowledge and value -- The general intellect -- Science, technique and alien knowledge -- Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge -- Knowledge and transition.
Summary
Much has been written since Capital was first published, and more recently after the demise of the Soviet Union and the consequent triumph of neoliberalism, about the irrelevance, inconsistency, and obsoleteness of Marx. This has been attributed to his unworkable method of inquiry. This book goes against the current. It introduces the issues that are presently most hotly debated, it evaluates them, and it groups them into four headings, each one of them corresponding to a chapter. At the same time, it submits a new reading of Marx's method of social research and on this basis it argues that Ma.
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9789004189942 (electronic bk.)
9004189947 (electronic bk.)
9789004188556 (electronic bk.)
900418855X (electronic bk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references ([291]-298) and index.
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