Philosophical Roots of Anti-capitalism - Essays on History, Culture, and Dialectical ThoughtPevná vazba
Philosophical Roots of Anti-capitalism - Essays on History, Culture, and Dialectical ThoughtPevná vazba Alfred Sohn-Rethel located the origin of philosophical abstraction in the "false conciousness"…
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Philosophical Roots of Anti-capitalism - Essays on History, Culture, and Dialectical ThoughtPevná vazba
Alfred Sohn-Rethel located the origin of philosophical abstraction in the "false conciousness" brought about by the new money economy of Greek Antiquity. Because Sohn-Rethel saw the entire history of philosophy as branded by a timeless universal logic, he dismissed Hegel's concept of "totality" as "idealist" and Hegel's critique of Kantian dualism as irrelevant to Marx's critique of political economy. In the Enlightenment the conceptual barrier Kant put between phenomenal reality and the "thing-in-itself" expressed, in Sohn-Rethel's view, the reified consciousness stemming from commodity-exchange and the division of mental and manual labor.
David Black, in the title essay of The Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism, suggests, contra Sohn-Rethel, that Marx's exposition of the fetishism of commodities is historically-specific to capitalist production, and therefore cannot explain the
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