Immanent Externalities

The Reproduction of Life in Capital
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52246-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 285, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Environmental degradation, crises in care and the predations of finance capital impose new challenges to human reproduction. It is imperative to understand their roots in capitalism. But how best to do so? This book develops the concept of ‘immanent externalities’ to grasp the non-capitalist life processes produced by – and necessary for – capitalist reproduction. Immanent Externalities thus considers the category of reproduction by means of a philosophical re-reading of the three volumes of Marx’s Capital. In doing so, the book locates capitalism’s fundamental contradiction as that between the reproduction of profit-driven activity and ecologically situated human life, suggesting new orientations for theory and practice today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carson, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination

Introduction

1.1 Fictitious Capital

1.2 Fictitious Capital and Value Form

1.3 Social Reproduction and Personal Domination

2 Money Form

Introduction

2.1 Political Subjectivity and the Monetary Link between Italian Operaismo and Capital Logic

2.2 Money as Money

3 Fetish Character

Introduction

3.1 The Presupposition of Reification and The Money Form

3.2 Personal and Impersonal Forms of Domination

4 Time and Schemas of Reproduction

Introduction

4.1 The Circulation of Capital

4.2 Interruptions and Differential Temporal Forms within Capital’s Reproduction

4.3 Marx’s Presentation of The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuit

4.4 Marx’s Presentation of The Turnover of Capital

4.5 Marx’s Presentation of the Reproduction and Circulation of Total Social Capital

4.6 The Three Circuits of Capital

4.7 The Role of the Credit System within Capital’s Reproduction

4.8 Expanded Reproduction

4.9 A Complete Concept of Money for Understanding Capital’s Reproduction

4.10 Non-capitalist Variables within Capital’s Reproduction

Conclusion

5 Marx’s Social Theory of Reproduction

Introduction

5.1 Capital’s Life Process

5.2 Intersubjective Structures

5.3 The Category of Reproduction in Hegel’s The Science of Logic

5.4 Concrete Reproduction of Human Life and Nature

5.5 Marx’s Two Concepts of Life

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Carson, Ph.D. (2022), Kingston University, is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. She has published widely on Marx and reproduction, including the articles "Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination" (Continental Thought and Theory, 2017) and "Non-capitalist Domination, Rentierism and the Politics of Class" (Crisis and Critique, 2023).