The philosophical roots of anti-capitalism: essays on history, culture, and dialectical thought

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IntroductionPart OneThe Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism 1 - The 'Secret Identity' of the Commodity Form2 - The Capitalism of Philosophy? The Greek Origins of Abstraction3 - Rethinking the 'Origins of Abstraction'4 - Comedy and Tragedy5 - The Poiesis of Orpheus -Fragmentation and Wholeness6 - Hegel's Minerva7 - Community and Civil Society8 - Kant and the 'Autonomous Intellect'9 - Capitalism: De-Socialized Labor10 - Absolute Negativity as Anti-CapitalismPart TwoCritique of the Situationist Dialect: Art, Class-Consciousnesness, and Reification1 - ArtSurrealism and the Crisis of the ObjectIn the Beginning was the LetterUnitary Urbanism, Derive and DetournementAsger Jorn, the Artists and the Founding of the Situationist International2 - Class ConsciousnessSocialisme ou BarbarieThe Critique of Everyday Life and the Hegelian Dialectic3 - ReificationThe Theory of the Spectacle-Commodity and the Influence of Georg LukacsSituationist Council CommunismThe Integrated Spectacle and GlobalizationPart ThreeEssaysLabor and Value: from the Greek Polis to Globalized State-CapitalismReification in the 21st Century - Lukacs' DialecticEnds of History and New Beginnings: Hegel and the 'Dialectics of Philosophy and Organization'Conclusion - Philosophy and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century