The schema of the theory of reification / / by Wataru Hiromatsu ; translated by John Hocking ; with an introduction by Makoto Katsumori.
Hiromatsu argues that the change from Hegel’s theory of self-alienation to the concept of reification is crucial in establishing a new relational worldview which is still relevant today. Amongst other topics, his discussion of the understanding of society sees such as a relational dynamic wherein th...
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Superior document: | Historical materialism book series ; Volume 255 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
Volume 255. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
Notes: | Placing the concept of reification at the centre of Marx’s thought, Hiromatsu demonstrates across a number of areas — history, the understanding of society, and the understanding of philosophy — the philosophical and practical change in worldview which this concept brings about. |
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Table of Contents:
- Translator’s Preface
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1. For an Extolling of Materialist History
- 1.1. The Dialectical Sublation of Classical Philosophy
- 1.2. The Overcoming of Humanism, and a New Horizon
- 1.3. The Sublation of the Theory of Alienation, and the Theory of Reification
- 2. The Composition and Scope of the Theory of Reification
- 2.1. The Reification of Social Relations and the Nature of Being of Cultural Forms
- 2.2. The Law-like Nature of the Historical Dynamic and the Significant Acts of the Subjects Involved
- 2.3. The Systematic Method of the Critique of Reification and the Standpoint of Value Judgement
- 3. The Theory of Reification of the Historical World
- 3.1. The Being-Structure of the World of the Commodity
- (A) The Twofold Nature of the World of the Commodity
- (B) The Problematics of the Theory of Value
- (C) The Objectivity of Commodity Value
- (D) The Fetish Nature of Commodity Being
- (E) The Fourfold Nature of the World of the Commodity
- 2 The Being-Structure of the Historical World
- (a) The Twofold Nature of the Information World
- (b) The Problematics of Theories of Meaning
- (c) The Objectivity of Social Acts
- (d) The Historical Nature of the Natural World
- (e) The Fourfold Nature of the World
- 4. The Historical Reification of the Natural World
- 5. Philosophy in Marx
- Epilogue — Expanding the Theory of Reification
- Index.