The Writing On The Wall: On The Decomposition Of Capitalism And Its Critics
by Anselm Jappe /
2017 / English / EPUB
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The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the
re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could
end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist
civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will
ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that
such an eventuality would inevitably result in the liberation of
humanity, as many orthodox Marxists claim? Through a collection of
specially revised essays, first published in France between 2007
and 2010, Anselm Jappe draws on the radical new perspective of “the
critique of value” as a critical tool with which to understand
today’s world and to re-examine the question of human emancipation.
The Writing on the Wall offers a powerful new analysis of the
decomposition of capitalism and its critics.
The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the
re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could
end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist
civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will
ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that
such an eventuality would inevitably result in the liberation of
humanity, as many orthodox Marxists claim? Through a collection of
specially revised essays, first published in France between 2007
and 2010, Anselm Jappe draws on the radical new perspective of “the
critique of value” as a critical tool with which to understand
today’s world and to re-examine the question of human emancipation.
The Writing on the Wall offers a powerful new analysis of the
decomposition of capitalism and its critics.