{"product_id":"the-automatic-fetish-the-law-of-value-in-marxs-capital-paperback","title":"The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBeverley Best\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy you should read all three volumes of Marx's \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e together\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eAutomatic Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e recreates Marx's analysis of capital, step-by-step, through the material compiled posthumously as \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e, Volume three. Identifying the critique of value as the central through-line of the analysis, Best elaborates Marx's theory of value as a theory of movement through which the capital-machine generates social forms of appearance that are the inversions of its inner operating mechanisms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharacterizing capital's movement and the dynamic production of social form as a 'perceptual physics, ' Best demonstrates the consistency and the coherency with which Marx's theory of value orients all trajectories of analysis in \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e 3, as well as providing the conceptual bridge between Volumes on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book illustrates the way in which capital's development to this day is as much as a story of the continuity of capital's inner dynamics as it is a story of ongoing transformation of capital's surface-forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBest develops, through Marx's critique, an analysis of money, credit, crisis, and the derivatives of profit-interest and ground-rent, that takes the reader from their emergence as capitalist forms to their current expressions. Neither a back-to-basics nor newfangled reconstruction, \u003ci\u003eThe Automatic Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e eschews novelty to show why, once again, Marx deserves to be read carefully.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeverley Best\u003c\/b\u003e works on Marx's critique of political economy and teaches in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMarx and Dynamic of the Capital Formation: An Aesthetics of Political Economy\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor (with Werner Bonefeld and Chris O'Kane) of \u003ci\u003eThe Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the vice-president of the Marxist Literary Group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763659342112,"sku":"9781804294802","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d26bfb68f57f60a18db8190fb33ca694.webp?v=1780238319","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-automatic-fetish-the-law-of-value-in-marxs-capital-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}