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Capital as a Social Kind - Definitions and Transformations in the Critique of Political Economy (Hardcover)
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Capital as a Social Kind - Definitions and Transformations in the Critique of Political Economy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds
in social theory. Thinking about kinds, the way we sort the things
of the world into categories -- water, for example, is a natural
kind - has made an important contribution to our understanding of
science in the last half century, but these advances have been
largely applicable to the natural, rather than the social sciences.
Drawing on the rich examples offered by Marx's analysis of capital
and exploring a methodology that will be of interest to both
Marxist and non-Marxist social theorists alike, Capital as a Social
Kind extends this approach to the study of social life. The book
argues that, provoked by his study of Aristotle, Marx's attentions
foreshadowed contemporary themes in the realist philosophy of
science. Importantly, social kind analysis is relevant not only to
understanding his critique of political economy but illuminates
also a materialist study of law, justice, morality and the
transition to socialism. Social kind analysis also opens a path for
the development of today's moral realism by suggesting the need for
a systematic study of the causal structures of social life. In this
respect the importance of normative themes in Marxism is defended
against claims that the Marxist tradition lacks the resources to
call capitalism unjust or to defend morality and human rights. The
origin of capital, Marx suggests, can be found in the rupture of an
original unity between the laborer and the means of labor, and the
book explores the way a structure of separations best characterizes
capital as a social kind. This uncovers a little developed emphasis
in Marx's work - his focus on the phenomena of separation that
define our lives and also on forms of association required to
transcend them. Given that capitalism has made the instruments of
labor instruments of social labor, forms of association that would
recover worker control over them must be democratic. The transition
to socialism, the book concludes, just is winning the battle of
democracy. This book will be of interest to students and
researchers of economics, philosophy and indeed any social science
subject.
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