"Reification through Commodity Form or Technology? From Honneth back to Heidegger and Marx"

by Lotz, Christian (2013)

Abstract

After briefly criticizing Honneth's recent reconceptualization of reification as (1) psychological and (2) noneconomic, I outline the problem of reification from the perspective of Marx, which prepares the confrontation that I present between Heidegger and Marx, for the real issue is whether reification is the result of technology (which I will call ?causality form?) or the result of the commodity form. I claim, against Heidegger, that Marx's concept of the commodity form is not based on subjectivity and, in addition, that Heideggerian ontology is unable to explain the connection between ?enframing? and the capitalist structures that Heidegger implies in his descriptions of modern phenomena. Accordingly, this essay tries to open a new path towards what has recently been called ?Heideggerian Marxism.

Keywords

Heidegger, Marx, Commodity, Technology

Themes

Technology, On Heidegger, Marx

Links to Reference

• https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2013.769353
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2013.769353
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08935696.2013.769353?casa_token=2yhh1uYWRRwAAAAA:YD7xncaU3Lkn605njqbq5KXJvgD8RuS1Qiwxt-cB8NWs3LGs9L_89j1B0QnMCpXN1UThwejLar6J
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08935696.2013.769353?casa_token=k9isglycwS8AAAAA:kKLrDoH_RLgt0ARwqgAJCMVOqf5-E_P6POpIYTgmFkIo_ywScXnieNrWAe1ztw-hRp8VvdJb0fkQ

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