By Sean Sayers
What does Marx suggest by means of 'alienation'? What position does the idea that play in his critique of capitalism and his imaginative and prescient of a destiny society?
Marx and Alienation bargains extensive with one of the most vital philosophical assumptions of Marx's paintings. It units Marx's account of alienation and its overcoming within the context of the Hegelian philosophy from which it derives, and discusses it relating to modern debates and controversies. It demanding situations different fresh money owed of Marx's concept, and indicates that wisdom of Hegel's philosophy is vital for an figuring out of imperative subject matters in Marx's philosophy.
Marx and Alienation explains and discusses Marx's rules in an unique and available style and makes a big contribution to Marxist philosophy.
Review:
'This first-class ebook manages to express, with compelling readability, one of the most profound and nuanced philosophical subject matters; it is helping repair the dialecticity of Marxist proposal via elaborating its Hegelian origins. it's the most sensible publication i've got stumble upon at the Marxist inspiration of 'alienation'.' - Tony McKenna, Marx & Philosophy evaluation of Books
'Sean Sayers' ebook is a powerful try and supply a defence of the Hegelian size of Marx's concept, and during it to protect Marx's idea of alienation.' - Dan Swain, foreign Socialism magazine
'Sayers presents a robust argument for the deep-lying Hegelianism of Marx's idea, sheds new gentle on a few well-trodden parts, and writes in an obtainable variety that a lot Marx scholarship nonetheless lacks. What he proves, specifically else, is that when very much has been written on Hegel-Marx courting, this fashion of imminent Marx's philosophical rules is still the main fertile box of inquiry for Marx scholarship today.' - Jan Kandiyali, Radical Philosophy
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Sample text
11 Adam and Eve, the first human beings, were placed in a garden where God had forbidden them to eat the fruit of tree of knowledge of good and evil. But they eat the fruit and are expelled from the garden. Adam is condemned to ‘labour in the sweat of his brow’ and Eve to ‘bring forth in sorrow’. In the story, it is because of temptation by the serpent that we are led to eat the fruit and forced to leave the harmonious conditions of the garden. ‘But the truth is that the step into opposition, the awakening of consciousness, follows from the very nature of man: and the same history 10 Sich verdoppelt.
Industrial labour is ceasing to be the dominant form of work. Work in offices that used to require intellectual skills is now done by computers. With the enormous growth of jobs in the service sector and the increasing use of information technology, new kinds of work are being created. These changes are often summed up by saying that these societies are moving from the industrial to the postindustrial stage. In some important respects this is questionable. Arguably, the economy is still industrial, but it now operates on a global scale.
Hardt and Negri situated their thought within the Marxist tradition. However, they maintain, Marx’s ideas need to be rethought in the light of the new conditions of postindustrial society (Hardt and Negri, 2005, 140). Marx takes material production as the paradigm of work, his concept of labour is based on an industrial model. In order to describe the new postindustrial forms of work, Marx’s account must be supplemented with the concepts of ‘immaterial’ labour and ‘biopolitical’ production. 32 The Concept of Labour 33 My aim in this chapter is to criticise these ideas.