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Indlæser... Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio) Power of Structure (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory)af A. Kiarina Kordela
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A. Kiarina Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marx's theory of commodity fetishism--from A. Sohn-Rethel to L. Althusser, É. Balibar, Slavoj Žižek, and others--to show that in capitalism value is the manifestation of the homology between thought and being, while their other aspect--power--is foreclosed and becomes the object of biopower. Using monistic Marxian/Lacanian structuralism as an alternative to dominant models from Plato and Kant to phenomenological accounts, deconstruction, and other contemporary approaches, Kordela expertly argues that Marx's theory of commodity fetishism is a reformulation of the Spinozian thesis that thought (mind) and things (bodies or extension) are manifestations of one and the same being or substance. Kordela's link between Spinoza and Marx shows that being consists of two aspects, value and power, the former leading to structuralist thought, the latter becoming the object of contemporary biopower. Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan intervenes between two dominant lines of thought in the reception of Marx today: on the one hand, an approach that relates Marxian thought to psychoanalysis from a Hegelian/dialectical perspective and, on the other hand, an approach that links Marxism to Spinozian monism, at the total exclusion of psychoanalysis. This book will interest scholars and researchers who study Marxism, (post)structuralism, psychoanalysis, critical theory, ontology, epistemology and theories of representation, theoreticians of cultural studies and comparative literature, aesthetic theory, including the relation of art to economy and politics, and biopolitics. No library descriptions found. |
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The first chapter "Words and things in the era of value, power, and biopower" is largely a restatement of the main thesis of Being, Tim, Bios - namely, that modern philosophy has seen a split between words and things, such that philosophers have tended either to focus on representation and its self-referentiality (the deconstructionists being the most recent example) or trying to return to reality while bypassing representation altogether. In the latter category, Kordela focuses her attention on Heidegger, Badiou, Deleuze, and Meillassoux.
The second chapter is an extended meditation on Alfred Sohn-Rethel, whose work I have not read, and so I cannot comment with any insight on its contents.
Chapter three is titled "Psychoanalysis and structuralism" and focuses, rather surprisingly, on the influence of both of these forms of thought on Deleuze. Kordela makes a convincing case that Deleuze is far more influenced by them than many Deleuzians would care to admit.
Chapter four looks at the tension between structuralism and dialectics in the light of Fredric Jameson's 2009 book Valences of the Dialectic. While admiring Jameson's argument that all modern and postmodern forms of thought are dialectical, Kordela argues that structuralist thought should be seen as different in a number of crucial ways.
Chapter five is an extended look at the interaction between art and value, including such thinkers as Kant, Nietzsche, Adorno, and Benjamin.
Chapter six returns to one of Kordela's central theoretical ideas: that Marx's theory of commodity fetishism is, alongside Spinoza's monism, one of the most crucial philosophical ideas in the formation of secular modernity. In this chapter she looks at how capitalism and psychoanalysis are intertwined, and so how Marx can help us understood who we are as modern subjects.
Chapter seven expands on the territory explored in the second half of Being, Time, Bios, in which Kordela examines the connections between labor, enjoyment, and biopolitics, this time with greater attention to Spinoza's "singular essence" and the "other side" of structure.
I probably would not recommend this book to first-time readers of Kordela, since its theoretical underpinnings are laid out in much greater details in her earlier works. Nonetheless, Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan is an excellent supplement to those books, an affirmation of the importance of her thought. ( )