Overview
- Showcases an international and collective effort to reckon with the theoretical problems surrounding the idea of Real Abstraction
- Considers the relationship between the idea of Real Abstraction and the theory of knowledge
- Offers an in-depth look at Real Abstraction as a key to the understanding of late capitalism
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reconstructing the Problem of Real Abstraction
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Repercussions in the Method and in the Critique of the Social System
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About this book
This edited volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the traces of the idea of “Real Abstraction” in Marx’s thought from the early to late writings, as well as the theoretical and practical consequences of this notion in the capitalist social system. Divided into two main parts, Part One reconstructs Marx’s notion of “Real Abstraction” and the influences of earlier thinkers (Berkley, Petty, Franklin, Feuerbach, Hegel) on his thoughts, as well as the further elaborations of this concept in later Marxist thinkers (Sohn-Rethel, Lukács, Lefebvre, Adorno and Postone). Part Two then considers the reverberations of the notion in the field of critical theory from a more abstract critique of capitalist social relations, to a more concrete understanding of historical movements. Taken together, the chapters in this volume offer a focused look at the concept of “Real Abstraction” in Marx.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ivan Novara is Professor at the Rosario National University (UNR), Argentina. He is a researcher at National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and a member of the Editorial Committee of Dialektica.
Angel Oliva is a Professor in both the School of Arts and Humanities and the Psychology School at Rosario National University (UNR), Argentina.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marx and Contemporary Critical Theory
Book Subtitle: The Philosophy of Real Abstraction
Editors: Antonio Oliva, Ángel Oliva, Iván Novara
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39954-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39953-5Published: 11 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39956-6Published: 11 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39954-2Published: 10 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 338
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Critical Theory