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Author Kordela, A. Kiarina, author

Title Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan : the (Bio)Power of Structure / A. Kiarina Kordela
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on citing Spinozaâ#x80;#x99;s Ethics and the Treatises -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Chapter summaries -- 1. Words and things in the era of value, power, and biopower -- Dominant secular epistemology, and epistemontology -- Commodity fetishism and structuralism -- Being qua value, and the methodology of commodity fetishism -- Other attempts to challenge the dominant secular epistemology -- Being qua power-of-self-actualization
Classical ideology and commodity fetishism or biopolitical ideologyBeing qua power-of-self-actualization and qua value, or fallen being -- 2. Materialist epistemontology: Marx and Sohn-Rethel with Spinoza and psychoanalysis -- Two lines of secular epistemology -- Real abstraction, and intellectual and manual labor -- The capitalist (mutual) abstractification of productive labor and value -- Parmenidesâ#x80;#x99;s coins do not accrue -- God, or substance, or labor-power -- The law of historical materialism -- Sohn-Rethelâ#x80;#x99;s methodology: commodity fetishism
3. Psychoanalysis and structuralismObject and time -- Drive, lack, desire -- Postscript on fantasy -- 4. Dialectics, or valences of structuralism -- Dialectics -- Structuralism -- Kafkaâ#x80;#x99;s valences -- Coda -- 5. Value: The aesthetic itinerary from content to structure -- 6. Marx and psychoanalysis -- Conceptual, methodological, epistemontological affinities -- Commodity fetishism and materialist epistemology: from bourgeois ideology to the constitutive imaginary, and from interiority-exteriority to extimacy -- From surplus-value to surplus-enjoyment
7. The other side of value: Substance, labor and enjoyment, or biopolitics according to Spinoza, Marx and LacanJouissance of the real -- Temporality of the jouissance of the real -- Aspects of labor and their temporalities -- Labor and the historical modes of its â#x80;#x9C;lossâ#x80;#x9D; and â#x80;#x9C;countingâ#x80;#x9D; -- Imitation enjoyment as a religious practice -- Spinozaâ#x80;#x99;s democracy and secular salvation
Summary "A. Kiarina Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marx's theory of commodity fetishism--from A. Sohn-Rethel to L. Althusser, É. Balibar, Slavoj Žižek, and others--to show that in capitalism value is the manifestation of the homology between thought and being, while their other aspect--power--is foreclosed and becomes the object of biopower. Using monistic Marxian/Lacanian structuralism as an alternative to dominant models from Plato and Kant to phenomenological accounts, deconstruction, and other contemporary approaches, Kordela expertly argues that Marx's theory of commodity fetishism is a reformulation of the Spinozian thesis that thought (mind) and things (bodies or extension) are manifestations of one and the same being or substance. Kordela's link between Spinoza and Marx shows that being consists of two aspects, value and power, the former leading to structuralist thought, the latter becoming the object of contemporary biopower. Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan intervenes between two dominant lines of thought in the reception of Marx today: on the one hand, an approach that relates Marxian thought to psychoanalysis from a Hegelian/dialectical perspective and, on the other hand, an approach that links Marxism to Spinozian monism, at the total exclusion of psychoanalysis. This book will interest scholars and researchers who study Marxism, (post)structuralism, psychoanalysis, critical theory, ontology, epistemology and theories of representation, theoreticians of cultural studies and comparative literature, aesthetic theory, including the relation of art to economy and politics, and biopolitics."--Provided by publisher
Subject Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 fast
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 fast
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 fast
Subject Knowledge, Theory of.
Psychoanalysis.
epistemology.
psychoanalysis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Critical Theory.
Knowledge, Theory of
Psychoanalysis
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315158037
1315158035