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Theological Metaphors of Marx

Theological Metaphors of Marx

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Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9781478025771
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 19/04/2024
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
In The Theological Metaphors of Marx, Enrique Dussel provides a groundbreaking combination of Marxology, theology, and ethical theory. Dussel shows that Marx unveils the theology of capitalism in his critique of commodity fetishization. Capitalism constitutes an idolatry of the commodity that undergirds the capitalist expropriation of labor. Dussel examines Marx’s early writings on religion and fetishism and proceeds through what Dussel refers to as the four major drafts of Capital, ultimately situating Marx’s philosophical, economic, ethical, and historical insights in relation to the theological problems of his time. Dussel notes a shift in Marx’s underlying theological schema from a political critique of the state to an economic critique of the commodity fetish as the Devil, or anti-God, of modernity. Marx’s thought, impact, and influence cannot be fully understood without Dussel’s historic reinterpretation of the theological origins and implications of Marx’s critiques of political economy and politics.
Translator’s Note / Camilo PÉrez-Bustillo  vii
Foreword: On Karl Marx’s Negative Meta-Theology / Eduardo Mendieta  xi
Preliminary Words / Enrique Dussel  xxi
Prologue to the English-Language Edition: The Criticism of Theology as the Criticism of Economics / Enrique Dussel  xxxiii
Part I: The Critique of Fetishism  1
1. Fetishism in the Young Marx, 1835–1857  3
2. Fetishism in the Four Versions of Capital, 1857–1882  24
3. A Critique of Capital’s Fetishistic Character  46
Part II: Theological “Metaphors”  73
4. Marx’s “Metaphorical” Theology  75
5. The Cultic Sacrifice of the Fetish: The Use of Biblical Texts  107
6. Marx’s Atheism and That of the Prophets of Israel  141
Appendix: The Epistemological Decolonization of Theology  159
Notes  169
Index  235

Enrique Dussel, Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Eduardo Mendieta

Enrique Dussel (1934–2023) was Emeritus Professor, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, and the author of many books, including Twenty Theses on Politics and Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion, both also published by Duke University Press.

Camilo PÉrez-Bustillo is coauthor of Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America.

Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy and Latina/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University.