The Spell of Capital

This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hartle, Johan F. (Editor ), Hartle, Johan Frederik, editor (editor), Gandesha, Samir (Samir Suresh), 1965- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2017
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Gandesha, Samir / Hartle, Johan F.
  • 1. Reification as Structural Depoliticization: The Political Ontology of Lukács and Debord / Hartle, Johan F.
  • 2. 'Reification' between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience / Gandesha, Samir
  • 3. 'All Reification Is a Forgetting': Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification / Lijster, Thijs
  • 4. Utopian Interiors: The Art of Situationist Urbanism from Reification to Play / Miller, Tyrus
  • 5. 'The Brilliance of Invisibility': Tracking the Body in the Society of the Spectacle / Dasgupta, Sudeep
  • 6. Art Criticism in the Society of the Spectacle: The Case of October / de Leij, Noortje
  • 7. Spectacle and Politics: Is There a Political Reality in the Spectacle of Society? / Röttger, Kati
  • 8. Reification, Sexual Objectification, and Feminist Activism / Verkerk, Willow
  • 9. Reified Life: Vitalism, Environmentalism, and Reification in Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and A Sick Planet / de Bloois, Joost
  • 10. Images of Capital: An Interview with Zachary Formwalt / Gandesha, Samir / Hartle, Johan F.
  • Notes
  • Index