Joseph Fracchia
Biographical Note
Readership
All interested in historical theory; philosophy of history; the intersection of paleo-anthropology and history; historical materialist approaches to study of socio-economic and cultural forms; history of capitalism and capitalist culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Notes
Introduction: Exposing the Corporeal Roots of Historical Materialism and Moving toward a Corporeal Semiotics
Part 1 Reconstructing Historical Materialism ‘Up from the Body’: The Corporeal Foundations of a Materialist Conception of History and the Guiding Threads of a Historical-Materialist Wissenschaft
Introduction to Part 1
1 An Aufhebung of Philosophy and the Genesis of a Materialist Conception of History: Objectification and Marx’s Corporeal Turn
2 From the First Corporeal Fact of Human Being to the Moments of History: Corporeality, Modes of Objectification, and Ways of Worldmaking
3 The Dimensions and Methodological Leitfaden of a Historical-Materialist Wissenschaft
Part 2 Mapping Human Corporeal Organisation
Introduction to Part 2. Toward a Historical-Materialist Cartography of Human Corporeal Organisation
4 The Body Is Not a Tabula Rasa: Clearing a Path toward a ‘Hidden Bodily Problematic’
5 Toward a Corporeal Cartography: Methodological Preliminaries
6 Toward a Historical-Materialist Cartography of Human Corporeal Organisation (in Outline): On the Corporeal Constitution of Patterns of Human Experience, Behaviour, and Realities
7 On the Corporeal Constitutions of Cognition and Subjecthood
Conclusion to Part 2: What It Is Like To Be a Human: Corporeally-Constituted Patterns of Human Experience and Subjecthood
Part 3 Toward a Corporeal Semiotics
Introduction to Part 3
8 The ‘Linguistic Turn’ and Its Discontents: A Critique of Disembodied Semiotics
9 The ‘Cultural Turn’ and Its Discontents: A Critique of Disembodied Cultural Studies
10 Artefacts as Corporeal Signs; toward a Corporeal Semiotics
Conclusion to Part 3: Corporeal Semiotics as Measure of Social Wealth and Socio-cultural Form: On Artefactual Beneficence and Mendacity
Part 4 Corporeal Categories and the Critique of Sociocultural Form: Capital and Its Culture of Quantity
Introduction to Part 4
11 Methodological Reflections on Forms of Social Objectivity and Subjectivity: Class, Class Consciousness, and the Critique of Capitalist Cultural Form
12 A ‘Great Transformation’: A Genealogy of Capital’s Culture of Quantity
13 The Commodity Form, Quantification, and the Standpoint of Capital: An Archaeology of Capital’s Culture of Quantity
14 The Capitalist Labour-Process and the Body in Pain: The Corporeal Depths of Marx’s Concept of Immiseration
Conclusion to Part 4: The Mendacity of the Vast Capitalist Artefact
Anticipatory Notes in Conclusion: A Time to Pause, a Time to Reflect, a Time to Wish, a Time to Hope: Toward a Corporeally-Grounded Vision of Human Freedom and Dignity
Appendices
References
Index