Reification

Download or read book Reification written by Timothy Bewes and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reification is the process by which human experience and action is transformed into a sort of object, separated from human reality, and was identified by Karl Marx as being a natural outgrowth of capitalist accumulation. The concept has recently fallen into analytical disrepute, partly because the concept of reification is itself reifying, argues Bewes (Brown U.) He revisits concepts of reification in the works of Marx, Adorno, Fanon, Lukacs, and others, seeking to resolve theoretical problems thrown up by the idea. The theory presented here is an attempt to resolve the theory of reification with its obsolescence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR