Karl Marx on technology and alienation
By: Amy E Wendling.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke,  Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780230224407
Subjects: Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883; Technology--Philosophy; Alienation (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Karl Marx's concept of alienation; title: Objectification, alienation, and estrangement; title: Other origins of alienation and objectification; title: Marx's account of alienation : from early to late; title: The alienated object of production : commodity fetishism; title: The alienated means of production : machine fetishism; title: Machines and the transformation of work; title: Marx's energeticist turn; title: The first law of thermodynamics; title: From arbeit to arbeitskraft; title: The second law of thermodynamics; title: Machines in the communist future; title: Technology and the boundaries of nature; title: Material wealth and value : the Grundrisse's fragment on machines; title: The strife between technology and capital : the fall in the rate of profit; title: Enjoyment not value : challenging the logic of exhaustion; title: Man himself as fixed capital; title: Class kinship and the redistribution of the means of production; title: Machines in the capitalist reality; title: Between thermodynamics and humanism : approaching capital; title: Machinery as an historical category of production; title: Machines, trains, and other capitalist monsters; title: Rough, foul-mouthed boys : women's monstrous laboring bodies; title: Wage labor and race; title: Wage labor and sexuality; title: Machinery and revolution; title: Alienation beyond Marx; title: Science and technology in Marx's excerpt notebooks; title: Karl Marx and Charles Babbage; title: Machines and temporality : the treadmill effect and free time; title: Technophobia and technophilia; title: Technophobia and twentieth-century theory.