19 Facts About Moishe Postone

Moishe Postone was a Canadian historian, sociologist, political philosopher and social theorist.

Moishe Postone was a professor of history at the University of Chicago, where he was part of the Committee on Jewish Studies.

Moishe Postone received his PhD from University of Frankfurt in 1983.

Moishe Postone was co-editor with Craig Calhoun and Edward LiPuma of Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives and author of Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory.

Moishe Postone was co-editor with Eric Santner of Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century, a collection of essays that consider the meaning of the Holocaust in twentieth-century history and its influence on historical practice.

Moishe Postone's work has had a large influence on the anti-Germans.

Moishe Postone was originally denied tenure by the University of Chicago's sociology department, sparking a great deal of public resentment from graduate students whom he had been involved in teaching.

Moishe Postone was later granted tenure by the history department.

In 1978, Moishe Postone started a critical analysis on Marx's theory of value.

Moishe Postone interpreted critical writings on Marx's critique of political economy, especially in its Capital 1 edition, and Grundrisse, as the development of a social-mediational theory of value.

Moishe Postone thought that in writing the Grundrisse Marx concludes that adequate critical theory must be completely immanent to its purpose.

Moishe Postone asserted that the new concept of "commodity fetishism", which has nothing to do with a hoax of consciousness, is the central part of the intellectual heritage of Marx.

Moishe Postone attempted to build a radical critique of the commodity, money, value, labour and politics not limited to describing the struggles around management and distribution.

The abstract exchange of labour, which is the core of capitalism for Moishe Postone, was as it was in the West.

Moishe Postone saw antisemitism as a major element in the development of a socio-historical theory of consciousness determined by social forms that are subjected to socialization under capitalism.

Moishe Postone showed that modern antisemitism is very different from most forms of racism and Christian antisemitism because it casts a huge global invisible power of international Jewry, the idea of a global conspiracy that is intrinsic to modern antisemitism.

Moishe Postone analyzed antisemitism against the Marxian notion of the dual character of the commodity category.

Moishe Postone observed that the characteristics that antisemitism attributes to Jews are the same as for value: abstraction, invisibility, automation, and impersonal domination.

Moishe Postone analyzed the figure of the Jew in modern antisemitism as the embodiment of abstract value, and extermination camps as a misbegotten notion of a "factory" to destroy value.