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Many academics have dismissed Marx's ideas because of his obscure method of inquiry.
This book goes firmly against that current.
List of contents
Foreword
1. Method
1.The need for dialectics
2. Dialectical logic and social phenomena
3. The dialectics of individual and social phenomena
4. Class-analysis and the sociology of non-equilibrium
5. A dialectics of nature?
6. Formal logic and dialectical logic
7. Induction, deduction and verification
2. Debates
1. Recasting the issues
2. Abstract labour as the only source of surplus-value
3. The materiality of abstract labour
4. The tendential fall in the average rate of profit
5. The transformation ‘problem’
6. The alien rationality of homo economicus
3. Crises
1. Alternative explanations
2. The cyclical movement
3. The subprime debacle
4. Either Marx or Keynes
4. Subjectivity
1. Crisis-theory and theory of knowledge
2. Neither information-society nor service-society
3. Individual knowledge
4. Social knowledge
5. Labour’s knowledge
6.Knowledge and value
7. The general intellect
8. Science, techniques and alien knowledge
9.Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge
10. Knowledge and transition
Appendix 1. The Building Blocks of Society
Appendix 2. Objective and Mental Labour-Processes
Appendix 3. Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts
References
Index
About the author
GUGLIELMO CARCHEDI, doctorate (1965) in Economics, University of Turin, Italy, has worked at the United Nations in New York and has taught at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous articles and books in several fields of Marxist analysis and research.
Summary
Much has been written since Capital was published about Marx's irrelevance. This has often been attributed to his unworkable method of inquiry. Going against this current, this book introduces the most hotly debated issues and evaluates them using Marx's method. Through these analyses what emerges is a solid foundation upon which to develop a multi-faceted theory of crises.
Foreword
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Published to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference
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