Bodies and artefacts : : historical materialism as corporeal semiotics / / Joseph Fracchia.

"In a seemingly offhand, often overlooked comment, Karl Marx deemed 'human corporeal organisation' the 'first fact of human history'. Following Marx's corporeal turn and pursuing the radical implications of his corporeal insight, this book undertakes a reconstruction of...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Historical Materialism Book
Physical Description:1 online resource (1450 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Exposing the corporeal roots of historical materialism and moving toward a corporeal semiotics
  • An Aufhebung of philosophy and the genesis of a materialist conception of history : objectification and Marx's corporeal turn
  • From the first corporeal fact of human being to the moments of history : corporeality, modes of objectification, and ways of worldmaking
  • The dimensions and methodological Leitfaden of a historical-materialist Wissenschaft
  • The body is not a tabula rasa : clearing a path toward a 'hidden bodily problematic'
  • Toward a corporeal cartography : methodological preliminaries
  • Toward a historical-materialist cartography of human corporeal organisation (in outline) : on the corporeal constitution of patterns of human experience, behaviour, and realities
  • On the corporeal constitutions of cognition and subjecthood
  • The 'linguistic turn' and its discontents : a critique of disembodied semiotics
  • The 'cultural turn' and its discontents : a critique of disembodied cultural studies
  • Artefacts as corporeal signs; toward a corporeal semiotics
  • Methodological reflections on forms of social objectivity and subjectivity : class, class consciousness, and the critique of capitalist cultural form
  • A 'great transformation' : a genealogy of capital's culture of quantity
  • The commodity form, quantification, and the standpoint of capital : an archaeology of capital's culture of quantity
  • The capitalist labour-process and the body in pain : the corporeal depths of Marx's concept of immiseration.