Reification
Or the Anxiety of Late Capitalism
Of all the concepts which have emerged to describe the effects of capitalism on the human world, none is more graphic or easily grasped than 'reification' - the process by which men and women are turned into objects, things. Arising out of Marx's account of commodity fetishism, the concept of reification offers an unrivalled tool with which to explain the real consequences of the power of capital on the consciousness of self. Symptoms of reification are proliferation around us - from the branding of goods and services to racial and sexual stereotypes, all forms of religious faith, the growth of nationalism, and recent concepts like 'spin' and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-85984-456-4
- EAN: 9781859844564
- Produktnummer: 8553934
- Verlag: Verso Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H15.3 cm x B22.8 cm x D2.4 cm 520 g
- Gewicht: 520
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Timothy Bewes currently teaches at Brown University. He is the author of Cynicism and Postmodernity, as an editor of New Formations and a contributor to New Left Review, New Literary History and Parallax
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