Behind the crisis : Marx's dialectics of value and knowledge

Contents......Page 6
Foreword: On Marx’s Contemporary Relevance......Page 8
1. The need for dialectics......Page 14
2. Dialectical logic and social phenomena......Page 16
3. The dialectics of individual and social phenomena......Page 35
4. Class-analysis and the sociology of non-equilibrium......Page 44
5. A dialectics of nature?......Page 49
6. Formal logic and dialectical logic......Page 52
7. Induction, deduction and verification......Page 57
1. Recasting the issues......Page 66
2. Abstract labour as the only source of (surplus-) value......Page 68
3. The materiality of abstract labour......Page 73
4. The tendential fall in the average profit-rate (ARP)......Page 98
5. The transformation-‘problem’......Page 114
6. The alien rationality of homo economicus......Page 137
1. Alternative explanations......Page 144
2. The cyclical movement......Page 156
3. The subprime debacle......Page 170
4. Either Marx or Keynes......Page 183
1. Crisis-theory and the theory of knowledge......Page 196
2. Neither information-society nor service-society......Page 198
3. Individual knowledge......Page 205
4. Social knowledge......Page 216
5. Labour’s knowledge......Page 221
6. Knowledge and value......Page 233
7. The general intellect......Page 238
8. Science, technique and alien knowledge......Page 257
9. Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge......Page 269
10. Knowledge and transition......Page 280
Appendix One The Building Blocks of Society......Page 286
Appendix Two Objective and Mental Labour-Processes......Page 290
Appendix Three Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts......Page 292
References......Page 304
Index......Page 312