Arash Abazari

Hegel's Ontology of Power (eBook, PDF)

The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Recent attempts to revitalize Hegel's social and political philosophy have tended to be doubly constrained: firstly, by their focus on Hegel's Philosophy of Right; and secondly, by their broadly liberal interpretive framework. Challenging that trend, Arash Abazari shows that the locus of Hegel's genuine critical social theory is to be sought in his ontology - specifically in the 'logic of essence' of the Science of Logic. Mobilizing ideas from Marx and Adorno, Abazari unveils the hidden critical import of Hegel's logic. He argues that social domination in capitalism obtains by virtue of the illusion of equality and freedom; shows how relations of opposition underlie the seeming pluralism in capitalism; and elaborates on the deepest ground of domination, i.e. the totality of capitalist social relations. Overall, his book demonstrates that Hegel's logic can and should be read politically.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2020
• ISBN-13: 9781108883238
• Artikelnr.: 70910927

Autorenporträt

Arash Abazari is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sharif University of Technology and Researcher at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), both in Tehran. His research focuses on nineteenth-century German philosophy and social and political philosophy, and he has published articles in Hegel-Bulletin and Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Illusion or semblance
1.1 'Socially necessary illusion' in Adorno
1.2 Semblance in the logic
1.3 The dialectic of semblance
1.4 The logic of ideology in Marx
2. Opposition
2.1 The fundamentality of opposition
2.2 The dialectic of the determinations of reflection
2.3 Opposition as domination
2.4 ...and the logical proof for it
2.5 The 'truth' of diversity in opposition
2.6 Opposition between capital and labor
2.7 ...and between genders
2.8 Conclusion
3. Totality
3.1 Society as totality in Adorno
3.2 Two misconceptions of totality
3.3 Actuality
3.4 The critique of Spinoza's substance
3.5 Substance as absolute power
3.6 The 'spell' of totality
4. Capital as totality
4.1 The critique of methodological individualism
4.2 Capital as the dialectical unity of circulation and production
4.3 The circuit of capital
4.4 The reproduction of capital
4.5 The power of capital
5. The necessity of totality
5.1 The preliminaries
5.2 The critique of the cosmological proof
5.3 The dialectic of necessity and contingency in the logic
5.4 ...and in capitalism
5.5 The illusion and contingency of freedom
5.6 The critique of pluralism
Conclusion: the failed transition to the realm of genuine freedom
Works cited
Index.