Labor and the Logic of Abstraction

An Interview

Bibliographic Data

ID4437262
AuthorsMoishe Postone (The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature), T Brennan (0000-0003-1684-4825)
Year2009
Volume108
Issue2
Pages305-330
Publication date2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-2008-035
OpenAlexW1993659479
LanguageEN
Citations received10

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