Marx’s value forms dialectically anticipate the metaphor theory of tenor and vehicle

Evidence

In Marx’s description of the way in which, of the two terms of the equivalence, one comes to serve as the expression of the other (the linen expresses its value in the coat; the coat serves as the material in which that value is expressed: [MC139]), we can see a richer dialectical anticipation of the doctrine of metaphor as tenor and vehicle. Meanwhile, the very irreversibility of the equation by which the two objects are affirmed as being “the same” in value then introduces a “temporal” process into this structure, in a way compatible with DeMan’s accounts of the generation of “narrative” out of metaphor and the subsequent “allegorical” forms which result from that structural tendency. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 518

Categorization

• XREF: Connects Marx’s value theory to literary-critical metaphor theory (Richards’ tenor/vehicle) and DeMan’s deconstructionist accounts of narrative-within-metaphor; also ties to Baudrillard’s symbolic exchange. — connects to: The form-content dialectic succeeds for Marx precisely because it is aesthetic in origin — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 671; DeMan’s textual metaphor theory structurally parallels Marx’s value-form dialectic. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 521; The labour theory of value must be distinguished from Marx’s value-form analysis — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 514 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The form-content dialectic succeeds for Marx precisely because it is aesthetic in origin — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 671; DeMan’s textual metaphor theory structurally parallels Marx’s value-form dialectic. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 521; The labour theory of value must be distinguished from Marx’s value-form analysis — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 514 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• DeMan’s textual metaphor theory structurally parallels Marx’s value-form dialectic. #corroborates (0.93) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 521