{"product_id":"history-and-obstinacy-9781935408468","title":"History and Obstinacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf Marx's opus \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Kluge and Negt's \u003ci\u003eHistory and Obstinacy\u003c\/i\u003e, a breathtaking archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last 2,000 years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSupplementing classical political economy with the insights of fields ranging from psychoanalysis and phenomenology to evolutionary anthropology and systems theory, \u003ci\u003eHistory and Obstinacy\u003c\/i\u003e examines the complex ecology of expropriation and resistance as it reaches down into the deepest strata of unconscious thought, genetic memory, and cellular life. First published in 1981, this epochal collaboration has now been edited, expanded, and updated by the authors in response to global developments of the last decade to create an entirely new analysis of \"the capitalism within us.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book is an astounding manifestation of an improbable constellation between a great writer\/filmmaker and an important social philosopher. Readers will enjoy the illuminating insights and surprising discoveries from the revealing assemblage of ideas, arguments, and imaginations.\"-- J rgen Habermas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander Kluge is an author and filmmaker, known for launching the New German Cinema in the early 1960s. Oskar Negt is Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Hannover. Early in his career, he was a student of Theodor Adorno and assistant to Jurgen Habermas. Devin Fore is Associate Professor of German at Princeton University, author of \u003ci\u003eRealism after Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press), and an editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50446357594386,"sku":"9781935408468","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f8d71b56-fdff-4632-9c09-4172ba142654.jpg?v=1729707211","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/history-and-obstinacy-9781935408468","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}