Limits and scopes of Sohn-Rethel’s concept of Real Abstraction for a Marxian analysis of current capitalism from the perspective of the New Readings of Marx
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The purpose of this article is to expose the interpretation of ideology in the work Intellectual and manual labour. A critique of the epistemology (1972) of Alfred Sohn-Rethel understood as unconscious of the transcendental subject, which pivots around the famous real abstraction term [Realabstraktion] as a principle of social synthesis; and on the other hand, to measure some scopes and limitations with respect to the New Readings of Marx, specifically, the critique of the splitting of value [Wertabspaltungskritik].
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