The adventures of the commodity for a critique of value / Anselm Jappe ; translated by Peter Dunn.

Author/creator Jappe, Anselm, 1962-
Other author Dunn, Peter (Translator)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Descriptionxii, 218 pages ; 25 cm.
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Uniform titleAventures de la marchandise. English
SeriesCritical theory and the critique of society
Summary "The Adventures of the Commodity explores conceptions of a capitalist society that is ordered entirely around the exigencies of the commodity, money and labour.A distinctive introduction to critiques of capitalism and commodity society, this book illuminates the difficult concept of 'abstract' labour. Merging this with the social critique known as the "critique of value", first developed by Robert Kurz and the German journal, Krisis, in the 1990s, Anselm Jappe highlights in particular a central, and often contested, aspect of this critique: the claim that, for several decades now, capitalism has entered into a crisis that is not cyclical, but terminal. If a society that is founded upon the fetishism of the commodity, on the value created by the abstract side of labour and represented in money, this is the result of the fact that its primary internal contradiction has reached a point of no return: the replacement of living labour, the only source of 'value', by ever-more sophisticated technologies."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2024405439
ISBN9781350381193 (hardcover)
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