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Analogy
Johan Frederik Hartl
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Description for Analogy
Hardcover. This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Luk cs's concept of reification and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle. Editor(s): Hartle, Johan Frederik; Gandesha, Samir. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0 black and white; 20 full color. BIC Classification: JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 20.
This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play ... Read more
This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
20g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089648518
SKU
V9789089648518
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Ref
99-50
About Johan Frederik Hartl
Samir Gandesha is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He is co-editor with Lars Rensmann of Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations (Stanford, 2012) and has published articles in several collected volumes, as well as in journals such as New German Critique, Thesis Eleven, Political Theory, The ... Read more
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