Value without Fetish

Elena Louisa Lange, PhD (2011), is a philosopher and Japanologist at the University of Zurich. Her research on Marx‘s Critique of Political Economy has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals. She is also a co-editor of Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic World (Brill, 2018).

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Part 1 The Method of The Critique of Political Economy



1 Introduction – Marx’s Critique of Fetishism as Method

 1.1 The Critique of Fetishism and Uno’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’

 1.2 The Aporias of Classical Political Economy

 1.3 The Critical Function of Marx’s Labour Theory of Value. Against Some Readings of ‘Form’ in Contemporary Value Form Theory



2 What’s ‘Pure’ about Capitalism? Uno’s Three-Level Method and the Theory of Principles

 2.1 The Limits of the Three-Level Method (sandankairon)

 2.2 Pure Theory’s X-Axis: The Law of Population

 2.3 Pure Theory’s Y-Axis: The Commodification of Labour Power



Part 2 The Object of The Critique of Political Economy



3 Uno’s Theory of Value – Value without Fetish (1947–69)

 3.1 The Problem of Abstract Labour in Uno’s Theory of Value

 3.2 Uno’s Theory of Value: Methodological Individualism and the Fetishism of Use Value

 3.3 Uno’s Theory of Money: Baileyan Assumptions

 3.4 Uno’s Theory of Capital: M-C-M’ as Pure Form



4 The Principles of Political Economy (1952/1964) in Light of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

 4.1 The Reconstruction of Capital

 4.2 The Law of Value as the Law of General Social Equilibrium (Uno)

 4.3 Surplus Value and Profit: The ‘Transformation Problem’ in Uno’s Perspective

 4.4 The Law of Value as the Law of Crisis (Marx)



5 Uno’s Legacy in Japan and Beyond

 5.1 Money vs. Value? The ‘Monetary Approach’ in the Post-Uno School of Value Theory

 5.2 The ‘Dialectic of Capital’ as the Apologetic of Capital in the Anglophone Uno School

 5.3 The Meaning of Real Subsumption or the Real Subsumption of Meaning: Aspects of Anglophone Uno School Historiographies



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