The Spell of Capital

This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented...

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The Spell of Capital
title The Spell of Capital
title_full The Spell of Capital
title_fullStr The Spell of Capital
title_full_unstemmed The Spell of Capital
title_short The Spell of Capital
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topic commodity
ideology
spectacle
cultural criticism
western marxism
reification
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
topic_facet commodity
ideology
spectacle
cultural criticism
western marxism
reification
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