Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan

<p>A. Kiarina Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism—from A. Sohn-Rethel to L. Althusser É. Balibar Slavoj Žižek and others—to show that in capitalism value is the manifestation of the homology between thought and being while their other aspect—power—is foreclosed and becomes the object of biopower. </p><p>Using monistic Marxian/Lacanian structuralism as an alternative to dominant models from Plato and Kant to phenomenological accounts deconstruction and other contemporary approaches Kordela expertly argues that Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism is a reformulation of the Spinozian thesis that thought (mind) and things (bodies or extension) are manifestations of one and the same being or substance. Kordela’s link between Spinoza and Marx shows that being consists of two aspects value and power the former leading to structuralist thought the latter becoming the object of contemporary biopower. <i>Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan</i> intervenes between two dominant lines of thought in the reception of Marx today: on the one hand an approach that relates Marxian thought to psychoanalysis from a Hegelian/dialectical perspective and on the other hand an approach that links Marxism to Spinozian monism at the total exclusion of psychoanalysis.</p><p>This book will interest scholars and researchers who study Marxism (post)structuralism psychoanalysis critical theory ontology epistemology and theories of representation theoreticians of cultural studies and comparative literature aesthetic theory including the relation of art to economy and politics and biopolitics.</p>