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Inverted World

Fetish and Mystification in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

Clara Ramas San Miguel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2026
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51532-1 (ISBN)

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Why does capitalism appear as an opaque totality in which human beings function as things and commodities take on a life of their own? Inverted World invites you to rethink Marx as a philosopher of mystification and appearance. Clara Ramas shows that Marx’s critique doesn’t merely explain exploitation—it unveils capitalist totality as an inverted world and exposes the phantasmagorical forms of everyday economic life, which Marx theorizes as "fetish" and "mystification". Drawing on philological analysis of Marx’s manuscripts and contemporary German debates, she argues that fetish and mystification are not rhetorical flourishes, but systematic organizing principles of his critique of political economy. This book offers a bold reconstruction of Marx’s conceptual architecture, and a fresh philosophical reading of Modernity that bridges political economy, ontology, and critical theory.

Clara Ramas San Miguel, Ph. D. (2015), Complutense University Madrid, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at that university. She researches Marx’s critique of political economy and its roots in Classical German Philosophy. She published the Spanish critical edition of Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Akal, 2023).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism Book Series ; 382
Übersetzer	Michael Gonzalez
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-51532-1 / 9004515321
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51532-1 / 9789004515321
Zustand	Neuware