Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

Moishe Postone, Louis Galambos, Jane Eliot Sewell

Cambridge University Press, 1995 - Social Science - 273 pages

In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. These interpretations lead him to a very different analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of "actually existing socialism." According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the central core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reformulation relates the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. It provides the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late twentieth-century capitalism.

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Review: Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

User Review  - Jeremy Hurdis - Goodreads

An invaluable addendum to Marxism emphasizing the historical specificity of capitalism and its peculiar mode of production.A very abstract interpretation of Marx's analysis of capital.

Review: Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

User Review  - Mirza Sultan-Galiev - Goodreads

Makes some great points. Its a shame Postone has such obnoxious fans.

Contents

• III: 3
• IV: 7
• V: 15
• VI: 21
• VII: 24
• VIII: 29
• IX: 34
• X: 36
• XI: 39
• XII: 43
• XIII: 49
• XIV: 58
• XV: 64
• XVI: 71
• XVII: 84
• XVIII: 87
• XIX: 90
• XX: 96
• XXI: 104
• XXII: 121
• XXIII: 123
• XXIV: 127
• XXV: 144
• XXVI: 148
• XXVII: 158
• XXVIII: 166
• XXIX: 171
• XXX: 179
• XXXI: 183
• XXXII: 186
• XXXIII: 190
• XXXIV: 193
• XXXV: 200
• XXXVI: 216
• XXXVII: 226
• XXXVIII: 227
• XXXIX: 242
• XL: 261
• XLI: 263
• XLII: 264
• XLIII: 267
• XLIV: 272
• XLV: 277
• XLVI: 286
• XLVII: 287
• XLVIII: 291
• XLIX: 298
• L: 307
• LII: 314
• LIII: 324
• LIV: 349
• LV: 385
• LVI: 401
• LVII: 413

About the author

Moishe Postone is an associate professor of modern European history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory,"
Eric Santner is the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor of Modern Germanic Studies and chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of four books, most recently "On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig

Louis Galambos is Professor of History and co-director of the Institute of Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book is The Creative Society And the Price Americans Paid for It (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory
• Authors: Moishe Postone, Louis Galambos, Jane Eliot Sewell
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0521565405, 9780521565400
• Length: 273 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / History & Theory; Social Science / General; Social Science / Sociology / General