Sohn-Rethel’s life’s work spans four distinct intellectual projects

Evidence

It is possible to distinguish between four areas of work Sohn-Rethel pursued during his life: 1) the discovery of the ‘transcendental subject’ in the commodity-form; 2) the common genesis of the commodity-form and forms of thought in the logic of exploitation and appropriation; 3) the separation of intellectual and manual labour; 4) fascism theory. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 310

Categorization

• DEFINE: Maps the four-pronged structure of Sohn-Rethel’s oeuvre, useful as an orienting framework.