Marx Through Post-Structuralism

Marx Through Post-Structuralism
Title Marx Through Post-Structuralism PDF eBook
Author Simon Choat
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages 214
Release 2010-06-17
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1441158170

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Marx Through Post-Structuralism presents a thorough critical examination of the readings of Marx given by four post-structuralist thinkers, all key figures in Continental philosophy: Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. Arguing that both Marx and the post-structuralists seek to produce a genuinely materialist philosophy, the author aims to develop a better understanding of both Marx and post-structuralism and in so doing to reflect on the possibilities and problems for materialist philosophy more broadly. Against the common assumption that post-structuralism begins with a rejection of Marx, Choat argues that Marx has been a key influence on post-structuralist thought and that each of the four thinkers examined affirms Marx's contemporary significance. By looking at how these thinkers have read Marx - analysing their direct comments, unspoken uses, and implicit criticisms - the book demonstrates that there is a distinct and original post-structuralist approach to Marx that allows us to read him in a new light.

Poststructuralism and After

Poststructuralism and After
Title Poststructuralism and After PDF eBook
Author D. Howarth
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 334
Release 2013-10-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137266988

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This book articulates the key theoretical assumptions of poststructuralism, but also probes its limits, evaluates rival approaches and elaborates new concepts. Building on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Lacan, Laclau, Lévi–Strauss, Marx, Saussure and Žižek, the book also provides a distinctive version of the poststructuralist project.

Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism

Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism
Title Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism PDF eBook
Author Michael A. Peters
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages 182
Release 2001
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780742509870

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Post-Structuralism and the Question of History

Post-Structuralism and the Question of History
Title Post-Structuralism and the Question of History PDF eBook
Author Derek Attridge
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Total Pages 308
Release 1987
Genre History
ISBN 9780521367806

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Recent developments in literary theory, such as structuralism and deconstruction, have come under attack for neglecting history, while historically-based approaches have been criticized for failing to take account of the problems inherent in their methodological foundations. This collection of essays is unique in that it focuses on the relation between post-structuralism and historical (especially Marxist) literary theory and criticism. The volume includes a deconstructive reading of Marx, essays that relate history to the philosophical and institutional context, and a number of studies of particular texts, literary and non-literary, which pose the question of history and literary theory with particular force.

The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism

The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism
Title The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism PDF eBook
Author Todd May
Publisher Penn State Press
Total Pages 148
Release 1994-07-22
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0271039078

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The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called tactical: it emphasizes that power emerges from many different sources and operates along many different registers. This approach has roots in traditional anarchist thought, which sees the social and political field as a network of intertwined practices with overlapping political effects. The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive. After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical political philosophy like anarchism looks like shorn of its humanist commitments—namely, a poststructuralist anarchism. The book concludes with a defense, contra Habermas and Critical Theory, of poststructuralist political thought as having a metaethical structure allowing for positive ethical commitments.

(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy

(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy
Title (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy PDF eBook
Author J. Habjan
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 387
Release 2014-10-14
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1137352833

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(Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Rancière, Latour and Žižek.

Specters of Marx

Specters of Marx
Title Specters of Marx PDF eBook
Author Jacques Derrida
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 281
Release 2012-10-12
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1136758607

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Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values. In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.