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| Author(s): |
Vera Aguiar Cotrim
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-08-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Jorge Luis da Silva Grespan;
Antônio José Lopes Alves;
Ronaldo Vielmi Fortes;
Eleuterio Fernando da Silva Prado;
Mário Duayer de Souza
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| Advisor: | Jorge Luis da Silva Grespan |
| Abstract | |
This research seeks to examine the central categories of Marxs thought regarding a current issue: the expansion of intellectual activity as a form of labor subsumed to capital. In contrast to theories that see this transformation as a factor that changes the theory of value and makes the Marxian understanding of capital obsolete, this research examines the overall relationship between labor and knowledge in Marxs texts, based on his understanding of the individual and sociability. It aims then to connect these founding categories with history, distinguishing the dialectic of development in pre-capitalist societies and the capitalist mode of production. Inside the latter, two central themes are highlighted, the abstract labor category as a specific social form of work, and the contradictory relationship between the development of productive forces and capital-relation. It is this development that transforms the relationship between labor and knowledge, as well as the division between material and intellectual production, at this late stage of capital expansion. From the examination of this issue, it is pointed at last some of the current changes that reveal the depth of the contradiction that pervades capitalist reproduction. In addressing these issues, authors who seek to explain the current changes are discussed as well as interpretations of Marxs thought that favor the logical point of view. (AU) | |