Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy

Werner Bonefeld teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK. His work contributed to the development of the internationally recognised Open Marxism school.

• DedicationAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy Section I: On the Critique of Political Economy as a Critical Social Theory2. Political Economy and Social Constitution: On the Meaning of Critique3. Society as Subject and Society as Object: On Social Praxis Section II: Value: On Social Wealth and Class4. Capital and Labour: Primitive Accumulation and the Force of Value5. Class and Struggle: On the false Society6. Time is Money: On Abstract Labour Section III: Capital, World Market and State7. State, World Market and Society8. On the State of Political Economy: Political Form and the Force of Law Section IV Anti-Capitalism: Theology and Negative Practice9. Anti-Capitalism and the Elements of Antisemitism: On Theology and Real Abstractions 10. Conclusion: On the Elements of Subversion and Negative ReasonSelected BibliographyIndex

Bonefeld successfully both reveals the supposedly innate contradictions of a system that is imposed externally on us and succeeds in dissecting the most pivotal contradiction, that is, how our own labor is simultaneously organized as concrete and abstract labor.