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e. In Marxist philosophy, reification ( Verdinglichung, "making into a thing") is the process by which human social relations are perceived as inherent attributes of the people involved in them, or attributes of some product of the relation, such as a traded commodity. As a practice of economics, reification transforms objects into subjects and ...
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat. Drawing from the insights of Max Weber and Georg Simmel and Marx's magnum opus Capital, as well as Hegel's concept of appearance, Lukács argues that commodity fetishism is the central structural problem of capitalist society.
In Marxist philosophy, the term commodity fetishism describes the economic relationships of production and exchange as being social relationships that exist among things (money and merchandise) and not as relationships that exist among people. As a form of reification, commodity fetishism presents economic value as inherent to the commodities ...
The critique of the spectacle is a development and application of Karl Marx's concept of fetishism of commodities, reification and alienation, [3] and the way it was reprised by György Lukács in 1923. In the society of the spectacle, commodities rule the workers and consumers, instead of being ruled by them; in this way, individuals become ...
Marx says this leads to the reification (thingification or Verdinglichung) of economic relations, of which commodity fetishism is a prime example. The community of men, or the manifestation of the nature of men, their mutual complementing the result of which is species-life, truly human life—this community is conceived by political economy in ...
Axel Honneth ( / ˈhɒnɪt, - ɛt /; German: [aksl̩ ˈhɔnɛt]; born 18 July 1949) is a German philosopher who is the Professor for Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt [4] and the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University. [5] He was also director of the Institut für ...
Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement (German: Entfremdung) of people from aspects of their human nature ( Gattungswesen, 'species-essence') as a consequence of the division of labor and living in a society of stratified social classes. The alienation from the self is a consequence of being a mechanistic part of a social ...
v. t. e. The value-form or form of value ( German: Wertform) [1] is a concept in Karl Marx 's critique of political economy. [2] Marx's account of the value-form is differently adopted in later forms of Marxism, [3] in the Frankfurt School [4] and in post-Marxism. [5] When social labor is split up into independent enterprises and organized ...