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by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
translated by Richard Langston et al.
edited and with an introduction by Devin Fore

	 
	


Political Theory | Philosophy
$39.95 | £27.95 cloth (2014) 978-1-935408-46-8
544 pp. | 91 b&w illus. | 6 x 9
Available in November

	

 

 

	

*FORTHCOMING*

If Marx’s opus /Capital/ provided the foundational account of the forces
of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens
when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor,
but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Kluge
and Negt’s /History and Obstinacy/, a breathtaking archaeology of the
labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last
2,000 years. Supplementing classical political economy with the insights
of fields ranging from psychoanalysis and phenomenology to evolutionary
anthropology and systems theory, /History and Obstinacy/ examines the
complex ecology of expropriation and resistance as it reaches down into
the deepest strata of unconscious thought, genetic memory, and cellular
life. First published in 1981, this epochal collaboration has now been
edited, expanded, and updated by the authors in response to global
developments of the last decade to create an entirely new analysis of
“the capitalism within us.”

*“Finally, the English-language public has access to this, the most
ambitious German theoretical construction since the War and an
extraordinary, unsettling, and paradoxical journey through history and
the construction of subjectivity, the pedagogies of labor, and the
ceaseless struggles and coalitions between affect and habit — a
well-nigh Blochian excavation of the layers of history and the
production of the future. The richness of examples, parables, and
illustrations, the unexpected originalities and unforeseeable
philosophical stimulations of this unclassifiable work, are comparable,
if in little else, to the shock of Deleuze and Guattari’s great
collaborations.” 
— Fredric Jameson*

*“This book is an astounding manifestation of an improbable
constellation between a great writer/filmmaker and an important social
philosopher. Readers will enjoy the illuminating insights and surprising
discoveries from the revealing assemblage of ideas, arguments, and
imaginations.” 
— Jürgen Habermas*

*“By presenting theory as montage with photos, highlighted text,
excursuses, diagrams, and box quotes, /History and Obstinacy/ takes up
the legacies of the historical avant-garde, but it does so in an
anti-vanguardist mode. As it explores materialist anthropology, the
archeology of labor power, and histories and stories of defiance and
tenacious resistance, it turns its political attention toward the
extended past that grounds our evolving present. In its search for
answers about the neglected organic and subjective dimension of
capital’s logic, this book speaks more directly to our current condition
than its historical origin in a period of post-1960s disorientation
might suggest. An indispensable message in a bottle from another time
and a pleasure to read.” 
— Andreas Huyssen*

 

							

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