Marx and Whitehead

Anne Fairchild Pomeroy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Richard Stockton College.

• List of Abbreviations Introduction Acknowledgments PART ONE: CREATIVITY 1. Introduction: Marx and Whitehead Regarding MetaphysicsThe Process of Dialectics 2. The Dialectics of Process From Internal Relations to DialecticsInterpreting ExperienceThe Actual EntityThe Genetic AnalysisThe Coordinate AnalysisFrom Microcosm to Macrocosm 3. The Process of Production ProductionThe Process of Production in GeneralAppropriation, Activity, ObjectificationThe Primacy of ProductionThe Subjectivist BiasDeterminism and Materialism PART TWO: JUSTICE 4. Being and Beings Process, Production, and the Macrocosmic OntologyMicrocosmic BeingSocietiesMacrocosmic Being 5. The Labor Theory of Value The Process of Production and LaborLabor and Value 6. Time and Labor Metaphysics and TimeThe Sphere of ProductionIntensive ExploitationExtensive Exploitation and the Contradictions of Capitalism PART THREE: CARE 7. Alienation Alienated LaborThe Objectivity of LaborThe Subjectivity of LaborSpecies LifeSelf and OthersThe Meaning of Alienation 8. Misplaced Concreteness Capitalism as AbstractionThe abstraction of commodity exchangeThe abstraction of laborThe Critique of AbstractionsMisplaced ConcretenessAnti-process, anti-praxis, anti-humanismDisjecta membra 9. Solidarity Eternal ObjectsFrom Human Consciousness to Radical ConsciousnessBeyond Capitalism Notes Bibliography Index

"…a timely and accessible tool in our conceptual and actual dismantlement of an inhuman economic system via the illuminating intersection of the philosophies of Marx and Whitehead." — DIALOGUE"…Pomeroy successfully deploys Whitehead's work to sustain Marx's texts against charges of determinism or overly strict materialism, and to describe how both manage to overcome the society/nature dichotomy." — Radical Philosophy"Pomeroy's linking of Marx and Whitehead is a bold move that dramatically enhances our understanding of both thinkers. It is a connection rarely attempted by Marxists or Whiteheadians, and never before in such a sustained and detailed manner." — George Allan, author of The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form