Available for the first time in English, Wataru Hiromatsu's Schema of the Theory of Reification argues that the change from Marx's theory of self-alienation to the concept of reification is crucial in establishing a new relational worldview which is still relevant today. Amongst other topics, his discussion of the understanding of society sees such things as a relational dynamic wherein the individual is constantly composed and composing in relation to others, including nature. This understanding is, he argues, the "single science of history" of Marx and Engels. This innovation offers a way to overcome the hypostasizing subject - object relation still so prevalent today.
Originally published in Japanese as Busshokaron no kozu by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo, 1983, 1994. © By Kuniko Hiromatsu.
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Translators Preface
Introduction
Prologue
1. For an Extolling of Materialist History
1.1. The Dialectical Sublation of Classical Philosophy
1.2. The Overcoming of Humanism, and a New Horizon
1.3. The Sublation of the Theory of Alienation, and the Theory of
Reification
2. The Composition and Scope of the Theory of Reification
2.1. The Reification of Social Relations and the Nature of Being of Cultural
Forms
2.2. The Law-like Nature of the Historical Dynamic and the Significant Acts
of the Subjects Involved
2.3. The Systematic Method of the Critique of Reification and the Standpoint
of Value Judgement
3. The Theory of Reification of the Historical World
3.1. The Being-Structure of the World of the Commodity
(A) The Twofold Nature of the World of the Commodity
(B) The Problematics of the Theory of Value
(C) The Objectivity of Commodity Value
(D) The Fetish Nature of Commodity Being
(E) The Fourfold Nature of the World of the Commodity
2 The Being-Structure of the Historical World
(a) The Twofold Nature of the Information World
(b) The Problematics of Theories of Meaning
(c) The Objectivity of Social Acts
(d) The Historical Nature of the Natural World
(e) The Fourfold Nature of the World
4. The Historical Reification of the Natural World
5. Philosophy in Marx
Epilogue Expanding the Theory of Reification
Index
Wataru Hiromatsu (1933-1994) was a Japanese philosopher. He was the author of numerous books on Marx, Hegel, and other subjects.
John Hocking is a freelance academic and literary translator from Japanese to English. He is currently undertaking two book translation projects, one of two short works by the philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and the other of a work by Hiromatsu on the philosophy of the theory of relativity.
