The nature of capital : Marx after Foucault / / Richard Marsden

• Autore: Marsden Richard <1952->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 335.4/1
• Soggetto topico: Capital
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Apologia; Credits; Discovering what is real; Marketing postmodernity: 'just like reality, only better'; The postmodern workplace: the virtual university; Reengineering modernity: marketing change; Postmodernity and capital: a personal retrospective; The modernist Marx versus the postmodern Foucault; A third way: Marx realism Foucault; Retroduction and realism: how to theorize; How do we know what exists?; The nature of social objects; Conclusions in search of a premise: formulating the problem of modernity ; Beyond good and evil: the modern Manicheism The modern Prometheus; 'The doubts which assailed me': the Rheinische Zeitung; The modern Manicheism: civil society and political state; Marx's early excavations; Everything pregnant with its contrary: nothing constant but change; Forays to the surface: the counter-critiques; Redefining P123: how to explain modernization; The unknown masterpiece: Marx's model of capital; The inner connection: production, distribution and circulation; How to read the 'rough draft'; An ironic travesty: the 1859 Preface; Some errors of traditional Marxism ; The unknown masterpiece The lesson of The Origin of Species; The nature of capital: surface, structure, movement; Capital as a cell: society's genetic code; The metaphor of movement: value and gravity; Imagining capital: surface, structure, movement; Capital's structure: relations of production; Capital's movement: mode of production; The missing mechanics of capital's motion; Capital: society's law of motion and microphysics; How labour is organized into a productive force: cost accounting, IR and HRM; Productive 'forces' and abstract labour; Disciplinary power ; A political technology of the body The promised 'connected whole': Marx, critical realism and Foucault; Foucault: a realist reading; Marx and Foucault: the promised 'connected whole'; Working capital to the surface: explaining the here and now; The problem redefined; The materialism of civil society and the fetishism of things; The idealism of the state and the reification of concepts; Discovering liberties: inventing disciplines; Capital and postmodernity; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The synthesis of Marx and Foucault has traditionally been seen within the social sciences as deeply problematic. The author overturns this received wisdom by subjecting both thinkers to an original re-reading through the lens of the philosophy of critical realism.The result is an illuminating synthesis between Marx's social relations of production and Foucault's disciplinary power from which the author constructs a model of the material causes of our capacity to act. The laws of motion of a society and its microphysics are shown to be complementary parts of a theory of capital, society's
• Titolo autorizzato: The nature of capital
• ISBN: 0-429-22894-5; 1-134-63956-2; 1-280-32592-5; 0-203-27972-7; 0-203-16523-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816395103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in social and political thought ; ; 20.