Elena Louisa Lange

Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno K≈çz≈ç‚Äòs (1897-1977) theory of ‚Äòpure capitalism‚Äô in the light of the method and object of Marx‚Äôs Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno‚Äôs central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his departure from Marx‚Äôs central insights about the fetish character of the capitalist mode of production ‚Äì a departure that Lange shows can be traced back to the failed epistemology of value developed in Uno‚Äôs earliest writings. By disavowing the complex relation between value and fetish that structures Marx‚Äôs critique, Uno adopts the paradigms of neoclassical theories to present an apology rather than a critique of capitalism. Readership: All interested in Marxism and its non-European reception, students and instructors in the humanities and economics, Japanese intellectual history, all interested in a deeper understanding Marx‚Äòs theory of value.

Value without Fetish

Elena Louisa Lange

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