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Moishe Postone: a marxism without Marx

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Author(s):
Éric Gaúna
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
João Carlos Kfouri Quartim de Moraes; Zaira Rodrigues Vieira; Sávio Cavalcante
Advisor: João Carlos Kfouri Quartim de Moraes
Abstract

In this research, I investigate the interpretation offered by Moishe Postone of Karl Marx’s mature work. The objective of the analysis is to expose and evaluate Postone's interpretative path, which seeks to verify and highlight, in his work Time, labor and social domination: a reinterpretation of Marx's critical theory, from 1993, that Marx would deal, on the one hand, with an alienation of a temporal and abstract order as the foundation of capitalism; and on the other, with the critical and primary centrality of the category of value to the detriment of the category of surplus value as a fundamental determinant of the capitalist mode of production. I will demonstrate, resourting to the critique by Jacques Bidet, Zaira Vieira and Michael Sommer, that Postone offers a problematic reading if evaluated comparatively to the marxian exposition, and that the premises for his theses comprise a reading method of the relationship between the fundamental categories of Marx which does not hold up against what is effectively to be found in the work of the latter. The consequence of Moishe Postone’s interpretation to be evaluated is the theoretical elimination of exploitative class relations for both the comprehension of capitalism and an emancipatory prospect (AU)

FAPESP's process: 22/01055-2 - Alienated time, fetichism and domination: the historical dynamics of capitalism according to Moishe Postone
Grantee:Éric Graciano Gaúna
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master