03633oam 22005654a 450 99637904430331620210915045021.090-485-2705-810.1515/9789048527052(CKB)3710000001364531(MiAaPQ)EBC4853752(OCoLC)1038429113(MdBmJHUP)muse76659(DE-B1597)502474(OCoLC)986526545(DE-B1597)9789048527052(EXLCZ)99371000000136453120170106h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Spell of Capitaledited by Samir Gandesha and Johan F. HartleAmsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (224 pages) illustrations90-8964-851-8 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Gandesha, Samir / Hartle, Johan F. -- 1. Reification as Structural Depoliticization: The Political Ontology of Lukács and Debord / Hartle, Johan F. -- 2. 'Reification' between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience / Gandesha, Samir -- 3. 'All Reification Is a Forgetting': Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification / Lijster, Thijs -- 4. Utopian Interiors: The Art of Situationist Urbanism from Reification to Play / Miller, Tyrus -- 5. 'The Brilliance of Invisibility': Tracking the Body in the Society of the Spectacle / Dasgupta, Sudeep -- 6. Art Criticism in the Society of the Spectacle: The Case of October / de Leij, Noortje -- 7. Spectacle and Politics: Is There a Political Reality in the Spectacle of Society? / Röttger, Kati -- 8. Reification, Sexual Objectification, and Feminist Activism / Verkerk, Willow -- 9. Reified Life: Vitalism, Environmentalism, and Reification in Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and A Sick Planet / de Bloois, Joost -- 10. Images of Capital: An Interview with Zachary Formwalt / Gandesha, Samir / Hartle, Johan F. -- Notes -- IndexThis book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society.ReificationCommunism and cultureCommunist aestheticsPhilosophy, MarxistElectronic books. Ideology, Cultural Criticism, Western Marxism, Commodity, Reification, Spectacle.Reification.Communism and culture.Communist aesthetics.Philosophy, Marxist.320.5315Hartle Johan FrederikGandesha Samir(Samir Suresh),1965-MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996379044303316The Spell of Capital2037967UNISA