Immanent Externalities : : The Reproduction of Life in Capital / / Rebecca Carson.
"Environmental degradation, crises in care and the predations of finance capital impose new challenges to human reproduction. It is imperative to understand their roots in capitalism. But how best to do so? This book develops the concept of 'immanent externalities' to grasp the non-ca...
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| Superior document: | Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 285 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
Volume 285. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 201 pages). |
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| Summary: | "Environmental degradation, crises in care and the predations of finance capital impose new challenges to human reproduction. It is imperative to understand their roots in capitalism. But how best to do so? This book develops the concept of 'immanent externalities' to grasp the non-capitalist life processes produced by - and necessary for - capitalist reproduction. Immanent Externalities thus considers the category of reproduction by means of a philosophical re-reading of the three volumes of Marx's Capital. In doing so, the book locates capitalism's fundamental contradiction as that between the reproduction of profit-driven activity and ecologically situated human life, suggesting new orientations for theory and practice today"-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789004522473 9004522476 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Rebecca Carson. |