Intellectual and Manual Labour
A Critique of Epistemology
Published on 26. November 2020
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-90-04-27910-0 (ISBN)
Description
Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the major writers of the Frankfurt School, with ongoing relevance to current debates about value, abstraction, and domination, Sohn-Rethel's ideas are here presented at their fullest scope and with their greatest theoretical clarity.
Out of print for many years, this new Historical Materialism edition contains a new introduction by Chris O'Kane, an afterword by Chris Arthur, and a compilation of the responses to Intellectual and Manual Labour published in the Italian journal Lotta Continua, including a substantial article by Antonio Negri.
Out of print for many years, this new Historical Materialism edition contains a new introduction by Chris O'Kane, an afterword by Chris Arthur, and a compilation of the responses to Intellectual and Manual Labour published in the Italian journal Lotta Continua, including a substantial article by Antonio Negri.
Reviews / Votes
"The republication of Intellectual and Manual Labour is a gift to Marxist scholars and finally makes Sohn-Rethel's work available to the wider public. With its additional material and contextual essay, the new edition of Intellectual and Manual Labour is likely to reinvigorate an interest in Sohn-Rethel's work." - Fabian van Onzen, Lone Star College, in: Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (18 June 2021) [Full review]More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-27910-0 (9789004279100)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alfred Sohn-Rethel was born in 1899. Forced to flee Germany during World War II, he settled in the United Kingdom, where he continued to work on the ideas that he would present in his magnum opus, Intellectual and Manual Labour.
Content
Introduction to the Historical Materialism Edition
?Chris O'Kane
Translator's Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 Critique of Philosophical Epistemology
?1?The Fetishism of Intellectual Labour
?2?Can There Be Abstraction Other Than by Thought?
?3?The Commodity Abstraction
?4?The Phenomenon of the Exchange Abstraction
?5?Economics and Knowledge
?6?The Analysis of the Exchange Abstraction
?7?The Evolution of Coined Money
?8?Conversion of the Real Abstraction into the Conceptual Abstraction
?9?The Independent Intellect
Part 2 Social Synthesis and Production
?10?Societies of Production and Societies of Appropriation
?11?Head and Hand in Labour
?12?The Beginnings of Surplus Production and Exploitation
?13?Head and Hand in the Bronze Age
?14?The Classical Society of Appropriation
?15?Mathematics, the Dividing-Line of Intellectual and Manual Labour
?16?Head and Hand in Medieval Peasant and Artisan Production
?17?The Forms of Transition from Artisanry to Science
?18?The Capitalist Relations of Production
?19?Galilean Science and the Dynamic Concept of Inertia
?20?Bourgeois Science
Part 3 The Dual Economics of Advanced Capitalism
?21?From De-socialised to Re-socialised Labour
?22?A Third Stage of the Capitalist Mode of Production?
?23?The Turn to Monopoly Capitalism
?24?Imperialism and Scientific Management
?25?The Economy of Time and 'Scientific Management'
?26?The Essentials of Taylorism
?27?Critique of Taylorism
?28?The Foundation of Flow Production
?29?The Unity of Measurement of Man and Machine
?30?The Dual Economics of Monopoly Capitalism
?31?The Necessity for a Commensuration of Labour
?32?The Commensuration of Labour in Action
?33?The Way to Automation
?34?The Curse of the Second-Nature
?35?The Epoch of Transition
?36?Logic of Appropriation and Logic of Production
Part 4 Historical Materialism as Methodological Postulate
?37?The Theory of Reflection and Its Incompatibilities as a Theory of Science
?38?Materialism Versus Empiricism
?39?Marx's Own Object Lesson
?40?Necessary False Consciousness
?41?The Philosophical Issue
?42?The Essentially Critical Power of Historical Materialism
Afterword
?Chris Arthur
Materials from Lotta Continua on Alfred Sohn-Rethel
?Translated by Richard Braude
References
Index
?Chris O'Kane
Translator's Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 Critique of Philosophical Epistemology
?1?The Fetishism of Intellectual Labour
?2?Can There Be Abstraction Other Than by Thought?
?3?The Commodity Abstraction
?4?The Phenomenon of the Exchange Abstraction
?5?Economics and Knowledge
?6?The Analysis of the Exchange Abstraction
?7?The Evolution of Coined Money
?8?Conversion of the Real Abstraction into the Conceptual Abstraction
?9?The Independent Intellect
Part 2 Social Synthesis and Production
?10?Societies of Production and Societies of Appropriation
?11?Head and Hand in Labour
?12?The Beginnings of Surplus Production and Exploitation
?13?Head and Hand in the Bronze Age
?14?The Classical Society of Appropriation
?15?Mathematics, the Dividing-Line of Intellectual and Manual Labour
?16?Head and Hand in Medieval Peasant and Artisan Production
?17?The Forms of Transition from Artisanry to Science
?18?The Capitalist Relations of Production
?19?Galilean Science and the Dynamic Concept of Inertia
?20?Bourgeois Science
Part 3 The Dual Economics of Advanced Capitalism
?21?From De-socialised to Re-socialised Labour
?22?A Third Stage of the Capitalist Mode of Production?
?23?The Turn to Monopoly Capitalism
?24?Imperialism and Scientific Management
?25?The Economy of Time and 'Scientific Management'
?26?The Essentials of Taylorism
?27?Critique of Taylorism
?28?The Foundation of Flow Production
?29?The Unity of Measurement of Man and Machine
?30?The Dual Economics of Monopoly Capitalism
?31?The Necessity for a Commensuration of Labour
?32?The Commensuration of Labour in Action
?33?The Way to Automation
?34?The Curse of the Second-Nature
?35?The Epoch of Transition
?36?Logic of Appropriation and Logic of Production
Part 4 Historical Materialism as Methodological Postulate
?37?The Theory of Reflection and Its Incompatibilities as a Theory of Science
?38?Materialism Versus Empiricism
?39?Marx's Own Object Lesson
?40?Necessary False Consciousness
?41?The Philosophical Issue
?42?The Essentially Critical Power of Historical Materialism
Afterword
?Chris Arthur
Materials from Lotta Continua on Alfred Sohn-Rethel
?Translated by Richard Braude
References
Index