Philosophy Of Marx Student Ed Pa

by Balibar,Etienne

• ISBN13: 9781844671878
• ISBN10: 1844671879
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need: this special edition includes pedagogical material such as information boxes, timelines and further reading. An excellent introduction to Marx's thought from a major French philosopher. Providing a lucid, succinct, and accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student, Balibar makes the most difficult areas of theory easy to understand. Balibar examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state. Suitable for the student and scholar in the humanities and social sciences, this will become the standard guide to Marx.

Author Biography

Etienne Balibar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-X.

Table of Contents

Marxist Philosophy or Marx's Philosophy?	p. 1
Philosophy and non-philosophy
A break and ruptures
Changing the World: From Praxis to Production	p. 13
The Theses on Feuerbach
Revolution against philosophy
Praxis and class struggle
The two sides of idealism
The subject is practice
The reality of the 'human essence'
An ontology of relations
Stirner's objection
(The) German Ideology
The revolutionary overturning of history
The unity of practice
Ideology or Fetishism: Power and Subjection	p. 42
Theory and practice
The autonomy and limits of consciousness
Intellectual difference
The aporia of ideology
'Commodity fetishism'
The necessity of appearances
Marx and idealism (reprise)
'Reification'
Exchange and obligation: the symbolic in Marx
The question of 'human rights'
From the idol to the fetish
Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History?	p. 80
The negation of the negation
The Marxist ideologies of progress
The wholeness of history
A schema of causality (dialectic I)
The instance of the class struggle
The 'bad side' of history
Real contradiction (dialectic II)
The truth of economism (dialectic III)
Science and Revolution	p. 113
Three philosophical pathways
Incomplete works
For and against Marx
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