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L’arbitrarietà della merce (The arbitrariness of the commodity)

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  • Francesco Aqueci

    (Università di Messina - Dipartimento di Filosofia)

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This paper deals with the question of the labour theory of value in the context of a genetic theory of the social mind; by investigating the transformations of the commodity, our aim is to resume the concept of alienation, in the belief that this particular category maintains its own validity in describing the late-modern capitalism. In particular, Marx’s notion of exchange value of can be seen as the economic side of a structural reality that was later independently discovered by Saussure in linguistics. The sign and the commodity are therefore ruled by the same laws of difference and changeableness, and generate an overall social alienation that makes public speaking problematic, even when, as in Sraffa, the goods are reduced to a simple technological relationship. Hence the need to analyze the subject/object relationship, as already done by Lukács, but in our case focusing on the ethical and ontological aspects of this relationship

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  • Francesco Aqueci, 2009. "L’arbitrarietà della merce (The arbitrariness of the commodity)," Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma, vol. 17(2), pages 129-158.
    • Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:17:y:2009:2:7:p:129-158
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    Keywords

    merce; segno; strutturalismo; alienazione (commodity; sign; structuralism; alienation);
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    JEL classification:

    • B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General
    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian

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