Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx - From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society

Capital is often depicted as an all-encompassing and abstract social force which seeks to “subsume” all human life. But what is “subsumption” and how might it be resisted?

Tracing the discourse of subsumption through the work of Kant, Hegel, Marx and the critical Marxist tradition, this book offers a materialist framework for analysing capitalist power. Saenz de Sicilia argues that capitalist subsumption operates at three distinct yet interrelated levels: exchange, production, and reproduction, with each characterised by distinct logics of domination and resistance. Conflicts over subsumption at each of these levels lie at the heart of capitalism’s struggle to determine the shapes of human social life.

A major intervention into debates surrounding the historical trajectories of capitalism, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society systematically refutes the influential thesis that we are now in a stage of "total" capitalist subsumption which leaves no space of refuge or resistance.

Product details

• Authors: Andres Saenz de Sicilia, Andrés Saenz de Sicilia
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2025
• EAN: 9798888905586
• ISBN: 979-8-88890-558-6
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Idealism, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity