Behind the crisis : Marx's dialectics of value and knowledge / / by Guglielmo Carchedi.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series, 26
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Carchedi, Guglielmo.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; 26.
• Physical Description: xi, 303 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Foreword: on Marx's contemporary relevance
• Method
• The need for dialectics
• Dialectical logic and social phenomena
• The dialectics of individual and social phenomena
• Class-analysis and the sociology of non-equilibrium
• A dialectics of nature?
• Formal logic and dialectical logic
• Induction, deduction and verification
• Debates
• Recasting the issues
• Abstract labour as the only source of (surplus-) value
• The materiality of abstract labour
• The tendential fall in the average profit-rate (ARP)
• The transformation-'problem'
• The alien rationality of homo economicus
• Crises
• Alternative explanations
• The cyclical movement
• The subprime debacle
• Either Marx or Keynes
• Subjectivity
• Crisis-theory and the theory of knowledge
• Neither information-society nor service-society
• Individual knowledge
• Social knowledge
• Labour's knowledge
• Knowledge and value
• The general intellect
• Science, technique and alien knowledge
• Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge
• Knowledge and transition.