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Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason
Contributor(s): Bonefeld, Werner (Author)
ISBN: 1441161392     ISBN-13: 9781441161390
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $188.10  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Essays
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
Dewey: 335.412
LCCN: 2013046546
Series: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 256 pages
 
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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.