Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio)Power of Structure

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Note on citing Spinoza’s Ethics and the Treatises
Epigraph
Introduction
	Chapter summaries
1. Words and things in the era of value, power, and biopower
	Dominant secular epistemology, and epistemontology
	Commodity fetishism and structuralism
	Being qua value, and the methodology of
commodity fetishism
	Other attempts to challenge the dominant secular epistemology
	Being qua power-of-self-actualization
	Classical ideology and commodity fetishism or biopolitical ideology
	Being qua power-of-self-actualization and qua value, or
fallen being
2. Materialist epistemontology: Marx and Sohn-Rethel with Spinoza and psychoanalysis
	Two lines of secular epistemology
	Real abstraction, and intellectual and manual labor
	The capitalist (mutual) abstractification of productive labor and value
	Parmenides’s coins do not accrue
	God, or substance, or labor-power
	The law of historical materialism
	Sohn-Rethel’s methodology: commodity fetishism
3. Psychoanalysis and structuralism
	Object and time
	Drive, lack, desire
	Postscript on fantasy
4. Dialectics, or valences of structuralism
	Dialectics
	Structuralism
	Kafka’s valences
	Coda
5. Value: The aesthetic itinerary from content to structure
6. Marx and psychoanalysis
	Conceptual, methodological, epistemontological affinities
	Commodity fetishism and materialist epistemology: from
bourgeois ideology to the constitutive imaginary, and from
interiority-exteriority to extimacy
	From surplus-value to surplus-enjoyment
7. The other side of value: Substance, labor and enjoyment, or biopolitics according to Spinoza, Marx and Lacan
	Jouissance of the real
	Temporality of the jouissance of the real
	Aspects of labor and their temporalities
	Labor and the historical modes of its “loss”
and “counting”
	Imitation enjoyment as a religious practice
	Spinoza’s democracy and secular salvation
Index