Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea

by Axel Honneth

Book Overview

In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Luk cs to identify and denounce the transformation of historical processes into ahistorical entities, human actions into things that seemed part of an immutable "second nature." For a variety of reasons, both theoretical and practical, the hopes placed in de-reification as a tool of revolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199898057
• ISBN13: 9780199898053
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"