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Ascher, Ivan Andre.

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Capitalism, disenchantment and the poetics of freedom: Karl Marx, Max Weber and the linguisticturn.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Capitalism, disenchantment and the poetics of freedom: Karl Marx, Max Weber and the linguisticturn./
Author:	Ascher, Ivan Andre.
Description:	178 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Wendy Brown.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3275333
ISBN:	9780549164999

Capitalism, disenchantment and the poetics of freedom: Karl Marx, Max Weber and the linguisticturn.
Ascher, Ivan Andre.

Capitalism, disenchantment and the poetics of freedom: Karl Marx, Max Weber and the linguisticturn. - 178 p.

Adviser: Wendy Brown.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2007.

This dissertation offers new interpretations of Karl Marx and Max Weber on the nature of capitalism and modernity. Through close readings of their principal works, I offer a critique of both the scientific claims and political visions commonly associated with these authors. Where Marx describes relations under capital as commodified, and where Weber paints the modern world as disenchanted, I argue that these diagnoses turn on a disavowal of the element of language in which both these processes and their analysis unfold. As my reading suggests, so long as human relations exist in language, neither commodification nor disenchantment can be complete. Similarly, where Marx decries the alienation of the working class and Weber bemoans the professionalization of politics, my reading suggests that so long as the division of labor and the rules of bureaucracy occur in language, there remains the possibility of resistance wherever interpretation is required.

ISBN: 9780549164999Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

Capitalism, disenchantment and the poetics of freedom: Karl Marx, Max Weber and the linguisticturn.
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520 $a This dissertation offers new interpretations of Karl Marx and Max Weber on the nature of capitalism and modernity. Through close readings of their principal works, I offer a critique of both the scientific claims and political visions commonly associated with these authors. Where Marx describes relations under capital as commodified, and where Weber paints the modern world as disenchanted, I argue that these diagnoses turn on a disavowal of the element of language in which both these processes and their analysis unfold. As my reading suggests, so long as human relations exist in language, neither commodification nor disenchantment can be complete. Similarly, where Marx decries the alienation of the working class and Weber bemoans the professionalization of politics, my reading suggests that so long as the division of labor and the rules of bureaucracy occur in language, there remains the possibility of resistance wherever interpretation is required.
520 $a The implications of this analysis are twofold. First, I derive from Marx's and Weber's own writings an explanation for the perdurance of capitalism and magic, i.e., developments that many Marxists and Weberians could not foresee or accept. My reading of Marx suggests that capital's reserves are greater than expected, for it draws not only from an army of the unemployed but from the boundless capacity of humans to proliferate meanings out of difference. My reading of Weber, likewise, begins to explain why magic also endures, for it suggests that wherever there is interpretation, there is the possibility of enchantment. Secondly, I derive from their texts a renewed understanding of what kind of freedom is available within capital and modernity. Reading Marx, we are reminded that if there is no guarantee that capital will produce a universal subject capable of overturning it, the existence of multiple and overlapping demands on our selves suggests that we are afforded a degree of freedom in our ability to interpret and thereby change the roles assigned to us. Reading Weber, we are reminded that there remains in every subject of bureaucracy the possibility to resist, innovate and even lead, insofar as obeying a command necessarily entails interpreting it.
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