Immanent Externalities : : The Reproduction of Life in Capital / / Rebecca Carson.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 285
• VerfasserIn: Carson, Rebecca,
• 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).

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination -- ‎Introduction -- ‎1.1. Fictitious Capital -- ‎1.2. Fictitious Capital and Value Form -- ‎1.3. Social Reproduction and Personal Domination -- ‎Chapter 2. Money Form -- ‎Introduction -- ‎2.1. Political Subjectivity and the Monetary Link between Italian Operaismo and Capital Logic -- ‎2.1.1. 1974 Monetary Crisis -- ‎2.1.2. New Laws for Action -- ‎2.1.3. Classe Operaia Literature -- ‎2.1.4. Money and Financialisation -- ‎2.1.5. Money as Capital -- ‎2.1.6. Capital Logic Critique -- ‎2.2. Money as Money -- ‎2.2.1. The Genesis of Money -- ‎2.2.2. Money as Medium of Reproduction -- ‎2.1.3. Money as Social Form -- ‎2.2.4. Money's Externality -- ‎Chapter 3. Fetish Character -- ‎Introduction -- ‎3.1. The Presupposition of Reification and The Money Form -- ‎3.1.1. The Hegelian Movement of Value as Essence -- ‎3.1.2. Value as Essence in Labour Time -- ‎3.1.3. The Driving Force of the Process -- ‎3.1.4. The Fetish Character of Money -- ‎3.1.5. The Automatic Fetish of Interest-Bearing Capital -- ‎3.2. Personal and Impersonal Forms of Domination -- ‎3.2.1. Marx's Use of the Category Person -- ‎3.2.2. Person as Juridical Mask -- ‎3.2.3. Interpersonal Relations -- ‎3.2.4. Extra-Economic Forms of Domination -- ‎Chapter 4. Time and Schemas of Reproduction -- ‎Introduction -- ‎4.1. The Circulation of Capital -- ‎4.2. Interruptions and Differential Temporal Forms within Capital's Reproduction -- ‎4.3. Marx's Presentation of The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuit -- ‎4.4. Marx's Presentation of The Turnover of Capital -- ‎4.5. Marx's Presentation of the Reproduction and Circulation of Total Social Capital -- ‎4.6. The Three Circuits of Capital -- ‎4.7. The Role of the Credit System within Capital's Reproduction.

‎4.8. Expanded Reproduction -- ‎4.9. A Complete Concept of Money for Understanding Capital's Reproduction -- ‎4.10. Non-capitalist Variables within Capital's Reproduction -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 5. Marx's Social Theory of Reproduction -- ‎Introduction -- ‎5.1. Capital's Life Process -- ‎5.2. Intersubjective Structures -- ‎5.3. The Category of Reproduction in Hegel's The Science of Logic -- ‎5.4. Concrete Reproduction of Human Life and Nature -- ‎5.5. Marx's Two Concepts of Life -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.