Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio)Power of Structure

ISBN-13: 9780367372088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 206 str.

A. Kiarina Kordela

Opis

Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism to show that in capitalism value is the manifestation of the homology between thought and being, while their other aspect—power—becomes the object of biopower.

　

 

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Words and Things in the Era of Value, Power, and Biopower  2. Materialist Epistemontology: Marx and Sohn-Rethel with Spinoza and Psychoanalysis  3. Psychoanalysis and Structuralism  4. Dialectics, or Valences of Structuralism  5. Value: The Aesthetic Itinerary from Content to Structure  6. Marx and Psychoanalysis  7. The Other Side of Value: Substance, Labor & Enjoyment, or, Biopolitics According to Spinoza, Marx & Lacan

O autorze

A. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German and Director of the Critical Theory Program at Macalester College and Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Writing and Society Research Center, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She publishes on topics such as literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical, political, and film theory, intellectual history, and biopolitics. Kordela is the author of $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan　(2007),　Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology　(2013), coeditor with Dimitris Vardoulakis, of　Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages　(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011), and of　Spinoza’s Authority: Resistance and Power, 2 Volumes　(2017). Her articles have been published in several anthologies and journals such as　Angelaki, Cultural Critique, Differences, History of Human Sciences, Modern Language Studies, Monokl, Parallax, Political Theory, Philosophy Today, Radical Musicology, Rethinking Marxism, Terroirs, The Lacanian Review Online, theory@buffalo, Umbr(a), and　World Picture.