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Reification, or, The anxiety of late capitalism /

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1859846858

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9781859846858

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Reification, or, The anxiety of late capitalism /

[Book]

Timothy Bewes

New York :

Verso,

2002

xvii, 334 pages :

illustrations ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-318) and index

Obsolescence of a concept -- Marxist anxieties -- Reification and colonialism -- From Adorno to Jameson -- Messianism, historical materialism, post-structuralism -- The translation of God into man -- Marxism and the hidden God -- Post-structuralism and the absent God -- What is imputed class consciousness? -- Reification and decolonization -- Total reification (I): reading Fanon -- Total reification (II): reading Lukács -- The reflexive character of reification -- Total illusion: the triumph of capital -- The 'aesthetic structure' of reification -- Post-structuralism: anxiety reified as différance -- Reflexive modernization: anxiety reified as risk -- The aesthetics of incomprehensibility -- Ambiguity and utopia -- Analogy of religious and commodity fetishism -- The desire for transcendence -- Comment on Proust -- Hierarchy of mediation and immediacy -- The virtue of obsolescence -- The pleasure tendency -- Reification as cultural anxiety -- On reversibility -- The threatened intimacy of creation: Flannery O'Connor -- The coincidence of contraries -- Kierkegaard as a theorist of reification -- Total reification (III): reading Hardt and Negri -- Conclusion: towards intimacy

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'Reification' offers a physical explanation for a wide range of ideological phenomena and is a useful metaphor for the effects of capitalism on people, social life, art, politics and culture

Anxiety of late capitalism

Reification

Civilization, Modern-- Philosophy

Philosophy, Modern

Postmodernism-- Social aspects

Reality

Reification

Social perception

Bewes, Timothy

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