This study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in cultural studies, political economy, and critical sociology. It seeks to reanimate Marx's theoretical reconstruction of the capitalist formation from the point of view of recent social dynamics within advanced consumer economies.

Autorentext

Beverley Best is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Concordia University inMontréal.

Inhalt
Marx's Critique of Abstraction * Capitalism's Process of Self-Mystification * Marx's Theoretical Process I: Abstraction and Representation * Marx's Theoretical Process II: Historicizing the Dialectic * Mediation as Allegory: Reading Political Economy Through the Artwork of Geoffrey Farmer * The Aesthetics of Political Economy * Mapping the Collective Subject