My understanding--and I am no expert on reification or related
concepts--has been that reification's origin is specifiably Lukacsian that
is implicit (or all but explicit) in Marx. Someone (forget whom) has said
that Heidegger's _Being and Time_ is in part and whole a response to
Lukacs' development of this term, so you might want to look at B&T's intro
for the reference and see how it plays out. Hope this helps more than
confuses...
>Comrades:
> I need some help on the notion of "reification." Is this a
>Lucaksian term, or does Marx write about it as well? I'm wondering if
>Foucault ever mentions it. I'm assuming his position on it might be
>similar to his critique of ideology, i.e. there is always something less
>truthful about that which becomes "reified," and that the
>unified/unifying subject is the circuit within which this all leads back
>to in some totalizing way. Any ideas?
>
>Rich X
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concepts--has been that reification's origin is specifiably Lukacsian that
is implicit (or all but explicit) in Marx. Someone (forget whom) has said
that Heidegger's _Being and Time_ is in part and whole a response to
Lukacs' development of this term, so you might want to look at B&T's intro
for the reference and see how it plays out. Hope this helps more than
confuses...
>Comrades:
> I need some help on the notion of "reification." Is this a
>Lucaksian term, or does Marx write about it as well? I'm wondering if
>Foucault ever mentions it. I'm assuming his position on it might be
>similar to his critique of ideology, i.e. there is always something less
>truthful about that which becomes "reified," and that the
>unified/unifying subject is the circuit within which this all leads back
>to in some totalizing way. Any ideas?
>
>Rich X
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** ** ***********************************************
** * ** Robt McDonell
* Amelia! http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3303
** ** ***********************************************
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