Time, Labor, and Social Domination

Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 13
PART\rI: A Critique of Traditional Marxism......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
The crisis of traditional Marxism......Page 21
Reconstructing a critical theory of modern society......Page 29
The Grundrisse:\rrethinking Marx\'s conception of capitalism and its overcoming......Page 35
The fundamental core of capitalism......Page 38
Capitalism, labor, and domination......Page 43
The contradiction of capitalism......Page 48
Social movements, subjectivity, and historical analysis......Page 50
Some present-day implications......Page 53
Value and labor......Page 57
Ricardo and Marx......Page 63
\"Labor,\" wealth, and social constitution......Page 72
The critique of society from the standpoint of labor......Page 78
Labor and totality: Hegel and Marx......Page 85
3. The limits of traditional Marxism and\rthe pessimistic turn of Critical Theory......Page 98
Critique and contradiction......Page 101
Friedrich Pollock and \"the primacy of the political\"......Page 104
Assumptions and dilemmas of Pollock\'s thesis......Page 110
Max Horkheimer\'s pessimistic turn......Page 118
PART II: Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: The Commodity......Page 135
Requirements of a categorial reinterpretation......Page 137
The historically determinate character of the Marxian critique......Page 141
Historical specificity: value and price......Page 144
Historical specificity and immanent critique......Page 152
Abstract labor......Page 158
Abstract labor and social mediation......Page 162
Abstract labor and alienation......Page 172
Abstract labor and the fetish......Page 180
Social relations, labor, and nature......Page 185
Labor and instrumental action......Page 193
Abstract and substantive totality......Page 197
The magnitude of value......Page 200
Abstract time and social necessity......Page 204
Value and material wealth......Page 207
Abstract time......Page 214
Forms of social mediation and forms of consciousness......Page 230
6. Habermas\'s critique of Marx......Page 240
Habermas\'s early critique of Marx......Page 241
The Theory of Communicative Action and Marx......Page 256
PART III:\rToward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: Capital......Page 275
7. Toward a theory of capital......Page 277
Money......Page 278
Capital......Page 281
The critique of bourgeois civil society......Page 286
The sphere of production......Page 291
8. The dialectic of labor and time......Page 300
The immanent dynamic......Page 301
Abstract time and historical time......Page 305
The dialectic of transformation and reconstitution......Page 312
Surplus value and \"economic growth\"......Page 321
Classes and the dynamic of capitalism......Page 328
Production and valorization......Page 338
Cooperation......Page 340
Manufacture......Page 344
Large-scale industry......Page 350
Capital......Page 363
The proletariat......Page 369
Contradiction and determinate negation......Page 372
Modes of universality......Page 380
The development of the social division of time......Page 387
Realms of necessity......Page 392
10. Concluding considerations......Page 399
Works by Marx (in English)......Page 415
Other Works......Page 416
Index......Page 427