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1 online resource (223 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society. |
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Print version record. |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Reification and Spectacle: The Timeliness of Western Marxism / Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle; 1. Yiwu: The Cryptogram of the Spectacle; 2. The Sequence (1867-1923-1967) and the Parcours; Bibliography; 1. Reification as Structural Depoliticization: The Political Ontology of Lukács and Debord / Johan F. Hartle; 1. Mistaking the Social: Fetishism and Social Facts; 2. Commodity Fetishism, Reification, Spectacle; 3. Aesthetico-Political Interventions, or, How to Overcome Reification?; Bibliography. |
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2. 'Reification' between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience / Samir Gandesha1. Two Models of Reification; 2. Reification and Normativity; 3. Musical Experience beyond Autonomy and Authenticity; Bibliography; 3. 'All Reification Is a Forgetting': Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification / Thijs Lijster; 1. 'All Reification Is a Forgetting'; 2. Reification and Allegory; 3. The Collector; 4. Adorno's Dialectic of Reification; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography; 4. Utopian Interiors: The Art of Situationist Urbanism from Reification to Play / Tyrus Miller; Bibliography. |
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5. 'The Brilliance of Invisibility': Tracking the Body in the Society of the Spectacle / Sudeep Dasgupta1. Coordinating the Society of the Spectacle: Debord and Lukács; 2. Interception/Identification/Dissolution; 3. Suspension/Attention/Dissolution; 4. From the Logic of Dissolution to the Dynamic of Identification; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography; 6. Art Criticism in the Society of the Spectacle: The Case of October / Noortje de Leij; 1. Buchloh's Spectacle; 2. Use Value versus Exchange Value; 3. Counter-spectacular Memory; Bibliography. |
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7. Spectacle and Politics: Is There a Political Reality in the Spectacle of Society? / Kati Röttger1. Spectacle and Post-democracy; 2. The Dilemma of the Spectacle; 3. Spectacle as the Condition of Politics; 4. In Praise of Theatre; Bibliography; 8. Reification, Sexual Objectification, and Feminist Activism / Willow Verkerk; 1. Lukács and Reification; 2. Sexual Objectification and Reification: Feminist Problems; 3. Performative Agency and Posthuman Feminism; Bibliography. |
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9. Reified Life: Vitalism, Environmentalism, and Reification in Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and A Sick Planet / Joost de Bloois1. Dialectical Vitalism: The Society of the Spectacle; 2. Time's Crooked Arrow; 3. A Sick Planet: Life as Revolutionary Wildcard; Bibliography; 10. Images of Capital: An Interview with Zachary Formwalt / Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle; Bibliography; Notes; Index; List of figures; Figure 1. Trading stalls of Yiwu in the People's Republic of China. Photo by Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle. |
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Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Marxist.
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Reification.
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Philosophie marxiste.
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Réification.
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Cultural studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Philosophy, Marxist
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Reification
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| Added Author |
Gandesha, Samir (Samir Suresh), 1965- editor.
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Hartle, Johan Frederik, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spell of capital. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017] 9789089648518 (OCoLC)967831840 |
| ISBN |
9789048527052 (electronic bk.) |
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9048527058 (electronic bk.) |
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9789089648518 |
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9089648518 |
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AU@ 000062527365 |
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