Labor and the Logic of Abstraction

An Interview

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4437262
AutoresMoishe Postone (The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature), T Brennan (0000-0003-1684-4825)
Año2009
Volumen108
Número2
Páginas305-330
Fecha de publicación2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-2008-035
OpenAlexW1993659479
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

In this interview, Moishe Postone, author of Time, Labor, and Social Domination, discusses the Marxian critical theory of capitalism against the background of the author's intellectual biography and central historical developments of recent decades. The interview focuses on his reinterpretation of Karl Marx's critical theory, especially on the notion of the historical specificity of the categories that purportedly grasp capitalism and its historical dynamic. It also engages the author's understandings of Georg Lukács, the Frankfurt School, and poststructuralism, while addressing issues of capitalism's historical transformations, its possible abolition, and the reconstitution of progressive politics

Abstraction · Aesthetics · Biography · Capitalism · Critical theory · Epistemology · Late capitalism · Political science · Politics · Reinterpretation · Social science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism