By Moishe Postone
Abstract
Purpose
to illustrate that, at its center, Marx’s serious conception isn't really a critique of a method of sophistication exploitation that distorts modernity, undertaken from a viewpoint that affirms hard work, yet particularly person who uncovers and analyzes a distinct type of social mediation and domination that buildings modernity itself as a traditionally particular kind of social life.
Methodology/approach
severe reconstruction, interpretation, and alertness of Marx’s critique of political economic climate as constructed within the Grundrisse and Capital, to the large worldwide variations of the prior 4 decades.
Findings
Marx’s serious research is well-suited to operate because the beginning for a thought that systematically illuminates smooth society within the twenty first century. it's extra conducive to greedy the modern global than conventional Marxism or so much types of post-Marxism.
Originality/value
The ancient adjustments of the prior century recommend the critical value of a critique of capitalism for an enough serious concept at the present time. this kind of critique needs to be able to greedy the middle of a social formation that's generative of a weird dynamic of identification and non-identity, of pointing past itself whereas reasserting itself. It shows that the conclusion of the potential for the abolition of proletarian exertions is an important reaction to a deep structural concern of capitalism.
DOI 10.1108/S0278-120420150000033001
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As Chakrabarty puts it in another context, there is a ‘‘simultaneous indispensability and inadequacy of social science thought’’ (Chakrabarty, 2000, p. 6). Perhaps the key is neither to uncritically accept sociology or reject it entirely but to acknowledge its origins, its standpoint, and its limitations so as to push ahead. In other words, while sociology may have provincial origins, this fact does not invalidate its knowledge project altogether. It merely calls for reflexivity, a recognition that the knowledge produced might be limited or specific, and invites us to search for new methods, concepts, theories – or redeployments of established ones – so as to meet the postcolonial critique.
It challenged the orientalism of European sociology and, drawing upon and rearticulating indigenous concepts like vishwa and shakti, theorized histories and societies as interconnected rather than independent. In this and other ways richly described by Goswami, Sarkar offered a novel comparative if not cosmopolitan sociology that escapes the traps of analytic bifurcation, metrocentrism, and European-centered historicism. Kozlarek’s essay adopts a similar approach but turns to the sociological thought of the writer Octavio Paz in Mexico.
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