In this Book
- The Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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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 presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society.
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ISBN
9789048527052
Related ISBN(s)
9789089648518
MARC Record
OCLC
1038429113
Pages
169
Launched on MUSE
2020-07-06
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2017
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