Marx For Our Time Pa

by Bensaid,Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781844673780
• ISBN10: 1844673782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-29
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

The French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd shows that Marx's "critique of political economy" encompassed three great critiques of the scientific and political canons of its age-historical reason, sociological rationality and scientific positivism. We find here a "post-postmodern Marx", inhabiting a contemporary world replete with contingency, crisis and contradiction-ensuring that this nineteenth-century thinker is relevant to the twenty-first century of global capitalism.

Author Biography

Daniel Bensaïd (1946–2010) taught philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, and was the author of books on Marxism, Walter Benjamin, the French Revolution and Joan of Arc. The Marxists’ Internet Archive has a <a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/bensaid/obits/index.htm">list of obituaries</a>.

Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition: The Archipelago of a Thousand Marxisms	p. ix
The Inaudible Thunder	p. 1
From the Sacred to the Profane: Marx's Critique of Historical Reason	p. 7
A New Way of Writing History	p. 9
Time Out of Joint (On Analytical Marxism)	p. 40
A New Appreciation of Time	p. 69
Struggle and Necessity: Marx's Critique of Sociological Reason	p. 95
Classes, or The Lost Subject	p. 97
Class Struggle is No Game (Marx contra Game Theory and Theories of Justice)	p. 122
Whatever Happened to Class?	p. 163
The Order of Disorder: Marx's Critique of Scientific Positivism	p. 201
Doing Science Differently	p. 203
A New Immanence	p. 239
The Distress of Historical Logic	p. 261
Choreographies of Chaos	p. 288
The Torment of Matter (Contribution to the Critique of Political Ecology)	p. 312
Bibliography	p. 361
Index	p. 375
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