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" Reification, or, The anxiety of late capitalism / "
Timothy Bewes
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BL
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692058
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b514247
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| Main Entry
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Bewes, Timothy
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Reification, or, The anxiety of late capitalism /\ Timothy Bewes
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Verso,, 2002
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xvii, 334 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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1859844561
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: 1859846858
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: 9781859844564
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: 9781859846858
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-318) and index
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| Contents
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Obsolescence of a concept -- Marxist anxieties -- Reification and colonialism -- From Adorno to Jameson -- Messianism, historical materialism, post-structuralism -- The translation of God into man -- Marxism and the hidden God -- Post-structuralism and the absent God -- What is imputed class consciousness? -- Reification and decolonization -- Total reification (I): reading Fanon -- Total reification (II): reading Lukács -- The reflexive character of reification -- Total illusion: the triumph of capital -- The 'aesthetic structure' of reification -- Post-structuralism: anxiety reified as différance -- Reflexive modernization: anxiety reified as risk -- The aesthetics of incomprehensibility -- Ambiguity and utopia -- Analogy of religious and commodity fetishism -- The desire for transcendence -- Comment on Proust -- Hierarchy of mediation and immediacy -- The virtue of obsolescence -- The pleasure tendency -- Reification as cultural anxiety -- On reversibility -- The threatened intimacy of creation: Flannery O'Connor -- The coincidence of contraries -- Kierkegaard as a theorist of reification -- Total reification (III): reading Hardt and Negri -- Conclusion: towards intimacy
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'Reification' offers a physical explanation for a wide range of ideological phenomena and is a useful metaphor for the effects of capitalism on people, social life, art, politics and culture
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Civilization, Modern-- Philosophy
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Philosophy, Modern
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Postmodernism-- Social aspects
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Reality
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Reification
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Social perception
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301
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HM449.B49 2002
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Anxiety of late capitalism
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: Reification
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