Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:25:08 -0800
Subject: Moishe Postone


Cambridge University Press has finally put Postone's book out in paperback.
I am forwarding this from CUP's website.

A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

Postone, Moishe

In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental
reinterpretation of Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question
many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new
interpretations of Marx's central arguments. These interpretations lead him
to a very different analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and
provide the basis for a critique of "actually existing socialism."
According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the central core of
the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination
generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private
property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are
characterized as expressions of domination
rather than as means of human emancipation. This reformulation relates the
form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society
to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. It provides
the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late
twentieth-century capitalism.

Subject: political/social theory and history of ideas

1993        6 X 9        436 pp.

Hardback        0-521-39157-1        $52.95
Paperback        0-521-56540-5        $17.95




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