Immanent Externalities

The Reproduction of Life in Capital

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ID19916837
AuthorsRebecca Carson (0000-0002-3907-1434, corresponding author)
Year2023
Publication date2023-04-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueImmanent Externalities (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004522473
OpenAlexW4320169775
ISBN9789004522473
LanguageEN
Citations received8

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

Biology · Capital (architecture) · Capitalism · Contradiction · Economics · Epistemology · Externality · Geography · GRASP · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Profit (economics) · Profit motive · Reproduction · Situated · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Ecology · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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