Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory by Moishe Postone

Author:Moishe Postone [Postone, Moishe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General, Sociology, Social Science
ISBN: 9780521565400
Google: GwDxsHOxd84C
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-01-15T17:20:33.550652+00:00

I shall term "concrete" the various sorts of time that are functions of events:They are referred to, and understood through, natural cycles and the periodicities of human life as well as particular tasks or processes, for example, the time required to cook rice or to say one paternoster. Before the rise and development of modern, capitalist society in Western Europe, dominant conceptions of time were of various forms of concrete time: time was not an autonomous category, independent of events, hence, it could be determined qualitatively, as good or bad, sacred or profane. Concrete time is a broader category than is cyclical time, for there are linear conceptions of time which are essentially concrete, such as the Jewish notion of history, defined by the Exodus, the Exile,and the coming of the Messiah, or the Christian conception in terms of the Fall,the Crucifixion, and the Second Coming. Concrete time is characterized less by its direction than the fact that it is a dependent variable. In the traditional Jewish and Christian notions of history, for example, the events mentioned do not occur within time, but structure and determine it.

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