The metaphysics of capitalism
By: Andrea Micocci.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780739128374; 9780739132708
Subjects: Capitalism; Individuality
Description: "Andrea Micocci argues that capitalism can be conceptualized as a limited and limiting socialized mode of thought, an intellectuality whose dialectical features are effectively identified by using the proxy of political economy, both Marxist and mainstream. Political economy, a representative instance of dialectical thinking, mirrors the dialectical nature of capitalist economic and political relationships. According to Micocci, nondialectical occurrences in capitalism are simply excluded from normal social, economic, and intellectual activities, which are performed in a metaphysical, intellectually isolated environment. In capitalism, the material, that is, nature itself, is not considered as a whole but only as occasional instances. Micocci describes capitalism as an intellectually constructed culture (a metaphysics) that preserves itself, and props itself up, by means of its iterative (market-like) functioning."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The material, i.e. nature; title: Capitalism as we know it; title: The question of revolution; title: What is being proposed here; title: The anti-hegelian argument; title: Hypostatization : the logical argument; title: A wider philosophical framework; title: Metaphysics vs. the abstract; title: Ruptures and oblivion; title: Political economy of capitalism; title: Mainstream economic theory; title: Marxist theory; title: Capitalism, economics, the economy; title: Metaphysics vs. the concrete; title: Ruptures and dynamism; title: The iterative character of capitalism; title: Capitalism as a cultural frame; title: The philosophical explanation; title: Side-effects of iterativeness; title: The firm and the market; title: Marketing of products; title: Capitalism's politeia; title: Capitalism's institutions; title: The nation-state; title: International deals : trade and war; title: Imperialism; title: Fascism again; title: Capitalism vs. individuality; title: Materialism is a lonely endeavour; title: Capitalism is an anti-culture; title: Revolution; title: Individuality; title: Like cut flowers; title: The so-called "transformation problem"; title: Intellectual drift; title: Withered individuality.