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Inverted World
Fetish and Mystification in Marxâs Critique of Political Economy
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 382
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Why does capitalism appear as an opaque totality in which human beings function as things and commodities take on a life of their own? Inverted World invites you to rethink Marx as a philosopher of mystification and appearance. Clara Ramas shows that Marxâs critique doesnât merely explain exploitationâit unveils capitalist totality as an inverted world and exposes the phantasmagorical forms of everyday economic life, which Marx theorizes as "fetish" and "mystification". Drawing on philological analysis of Marxâs manuscripts and contemporary German debates, she argues that fetish and mystification are not rhetorical flourishes, but systematic organizing principles of his critique of political economy. This book offers a bold reconstruction of Marxâs conceptual architecture, and a fresh philosophical reading of Modernity that bridges political economy, ontology, and critical theory.
Clara Ramas San Miguel, Ph. D. (2015), Complutense University Madrid, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at that university. She researches Marxâs critique of political economy and its roots in Classical German Philosophy. She published the Spanish critical edition of Marxâs The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Akal, 2023).
Foreword: From Fetishism to Materialism â New Perspectives on the Critique of Political Economy
Preface to the English Edition
Works of Karl Marx Cited
Introduction: Marxâs Inverted World
1 On the Project of a Critique of Political Economy
2 The Problem of Fetishism and Mystification in the Interpretation of the Critique of Political Economy
3 Fetishism and Its Forms
â1âThe Core Form: The Commodity Fetishism
â2âThe Fetishism of Money
â3âThe Fetishism of Capital
4 Mystification and Its Forms
â1âThe Core Form: The Mystification of Wages
â2âThe Mystification of Profit (or Interest)
â3âThe Mystification of Ground Rent
5 The Structure of the Critique of Political Economy: Proposal for a Reconstruction
6 Theory of Value and Fetishism
â1âThe Theory of Value: the Quantitative and Qualitative Perspective
â2âThe Immediate Relation between the Theory of Value and Fetishism
â3âThe Value-Form
7 Theory of Surplus Value and Mystification
â1âThe Theory of Surplus Value: the Secret and the Appearance
â2âThe Immediate Relation between the Theory of Surplus Value and Mystification: the Trinity Formula, or the System of Illusion for an Inverted World
8 Conclusions: Towards a Critical Materialism
Epilogue to the Second Spanish Edition
Marx and the Twilight Modernity
Bibliography
Preface to the English Edition
Works of Karl Marx Cited
Introduction: Marxâs Inverted World
1 On the Project of a Critique of Political Economy
2 The Problem of Fetishism and Mystification in the Interpretation of the Critique of Political Economy
3 Fetishism and Its Forms
â1âThe Core Form: The Commodity Fetishism
â2âThe Fetishism of Money
â3âThe Fetishism of Capital
4 Mystification and Its Forms
â1âThe Core Form: The Mystification of Wages
â2âThe Mystification of Profit (or Interest)
â3âThe Mystification of Ground Rent
5 The Structure of the Critique of Political Economy: Proposal for a Reconstruction
6 Theory of Value and Fetishism
â1âThe Theory of Value: the Quantitative and Qualitative Perspective
â2âThe Immediate Relation between the Theory of Value and Fetishism
â3âThe Value-Form
7 Theory of Surplus Value and Mystification
â1âThe Theory of Surplus Value: the Secret and the Appearance
â2âThe Immediate Relation between the Theory of Surplus Value and Mystification: the Trinity Formula, or the System of Illusion for an Inverted World
8 Conclusions: Towards a Critical Materialism
Epilogue to the Second Spanish Edition
Marx and the Twilight Modernity
Bibliography
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