Summary
Mark Losonc: Blindness and Capital
"Blindness and Capital" is a collection of philosophical studies by Mark Losonc written on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth. Starting from several quotations by Marx from "Capital" in which the motif of blindness varies, Mark Loshonc develops the entire phenomenology of seeing by referring to a rich philosophical tradition from the mythological concept and Plato to Jean-Luc Marion. The blinding light is the main metaphor used to conceptualize both the logic of capital and the ideology that emerges from it. Previously, we are talking about capitalism as our everyday experience that vacillates between appearing and not appearing. Similarly, liking as a contemporary emerging form of valuation is interpreted as an ideological practice behind which are specific mechanisms of self-valorization of capital. Finally, it is suggested that Marx introduced concepts that anticipated the dynamics of late capitalism, and that he was among the first theoreticians of systems and complexity. To interpret Marx in this way means, among other things, to interpret him as a thinker who is inspiring here and now.
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