Intellectual and Manual Labour: Critique of Epistemology

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Fetishism of Intellectual Labour....Pages 13-17
Can there be Abstraction other than by Thought?....Pages 17-19
The Commodity Abstraction....Pages 19-22
The Phenomenon of the Exchange Abstraction....Pages 22-29
Economics and Knowledge....Pages 29-34
The Analysis of the Exchange Abstraction....Pages 35-57
The Evolution of Coined Money....Pages 58-60
Conversion of the Real Abstraction into the Conceptual Abstraction....Pages 60-67
The Independent Intellect....Pages 67-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Societies of Production and Societies of Appropriation....Pages 83-84
Head and Hand in Labour....Pages 84-86
The Beginnings of Surplus Production and Exploitation....Pages 86-88
Head and Hand in the Bronze Age....Pages 88-94
The Classical Society of Appropriation....Pages 94-100
Mathematics, the Dividing-line of Intellectual and Manual Labour....Pages 101-103
Head and Hand in Medieval Peasant and Artisan Production....Pages 104-110
The Forms of Transition from Artisanry to Science....Pages 111-116
The Capitalist Relations of Production....Pages 117-123
Galilean Science and the Dynamic Concept of Inertia....Pages 123-132
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Bourgeois Science....Pages 132-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
From De-socialised to Re-socialised Labour....Pages 139-140
A Third Stage of the Capitalist Mode of Production?....Pages 140-143
The Turn to Monopoly Capitalism....Pages 144-145
Imperialism and Scientific Management....Pages 145-147
The Economy of Time and ‘Scientific Management’....Pages 148-149
The Essentials of Taylorism....Pages 149-153
Critique of Taylorism....Pages 153-158
The Foundation of Flow Production....Pages 159-161
The Unity of Measurement of Man and Machine....Pages 161-163
The Dual Economics of Monopoly Capitalism....Pages 163-165
The Necessity for a Commensuration of Labour....Pages 166-169
The Commensuration of Labour in Action....Pages 170-172
The Way to Automation....Pages 172-174
The Curse of the Second-Nature....Pages 175-178
The Epoch of Transition....Pages 178-180
Logic of Appropriation and Logic of Production....Pages 180-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
The Theory of Reflection and its Incompatibilities as a Theory of Science....Pages 189-193
Materialism versus Empiricism....Pages 193-194
Marx’s Own Object Lesson....Pages 194-196
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Necessary False Consciousness....Pages 196-199
The Philosophical Issue....Pages 199-201
The Essentially Critical Power of Historical Materialism....Pages 201-204
Back Matter....Pages 205-216