Download or read book Militant Acts written by Marcelo Hoffman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present. Radicals launched investigations into the conditions and struggles of the oppressed and exploited to stimulate their political mobilization and organization. These investigations assumed a variety of methodological forms in a wide range of geographical and institutional contexts, and they also drew support from the participation of intellectuals such as Marx, Lenin, Mao, Dunayevskaya, Foucault, and Badiou. Marcelo Hoffman analyzes newspapers, pamphlets, reports, and other source materials, which reveal the diverse histories, underappreciated difficulties, and theoretical import of investigations in radical political struggles. In so doing, he challenges readers to rethink the supposed failure of these investigations and concludes that the value of investigations in radical political struggles ultimately resides in the possibility of producing a new political "we."
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post Marxism written by Alex Callinicos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since the Seattle protests in 1999 and the impact of the global economic and financial crisis in 2007–8. It intersects with the emergence of Post-Marxism since the 1980s represented by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas, Chantal Mouffe, Ranajit Guha and Alain Badiou. This handbook explores the development of Marxism and Post-Marxism, setting them in dialogue against a truly global backdrop. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries between philosophy, economics, politics and history, an international range of expert contributors guide the reader through the main varieties and preoccupations of Marxism and Post-Marxism. Through a series of framing and illustrative essays, readers will explore these traditions, starting from Marx and Engels themselves, through the thinkers of the Second and Third Internationals (Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin and Trotsky, among others), the Tricontinental, and Subaltern and Post-Colonial Studies, to more contemporary figures such as Huey Newton, Fredric Jameson, Judith Butler, Immanuel Wallerstein and Samir Amin. The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism will be of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, cultural studies and theory, sociology, political economics and several areas of political science, including political theory, Marxism, political ideologies and critical theory.
Download or read book Enqu te ouvri re et th orie critique written by Andrea Cavazzini and published by Presses universitaires de Liège. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suite à la dissolution de la perspective marxiste et aux transformations néo-libérales du capitalisme à la fin des années 1970, la Classe ouvrière s’est éclipsée : après des décennies de déclin social et d’invisibilité politique, les ouvriers n’apparaissent plus aujourd’hui que comme les victimes de la crise, du chômage de masse et de conditions de vie souvent meurtrières. Mais la centralité politique et sociale de la Classe ouvrière a constitué un facteur décisif de l’histoire du xxe siècle. La Classe représentait à la fois un élément essentiel dans le fonctionnement de l’économie capitaliste et un principe d’antagonisme subjectif qui annonçait dans ses formes de vie la possibilité d’une organisation sociale différente. Cet ouvrage reconstruit un épisode significatif de l’histoire de la centralité ouvrière : la séquence politique des années 1960 en Italie. La Nouvelle Gauche italienne – en particulier la revue-collectif Quaderni Rossi – a produit une fusion originale entre l’enquête menée dans les usines comme pratique militante directe et la théorie critique du capitalisme moderne inspirée par Lukács et l’École de Francfort. Malgré sa brièveté, cette expérience fut décisive pour la longue saison italienne des luttes sociales : elle a réussi à articuler l’exigence d’ancrer la politique à la vie ordinaire des classes laborieuses, la tentative de surmonter la crise du mouvement ouvrier après la glaciation stalinienne et la confrontation avec les diagnostics philosophiques de la modernité élaborés par Hegel et Max Weber. À la fois intervention militante et production de connaissances, l’enquête est le fil conducteur qui permet de reconstruire cette conjoncture et ses enjeux historiques et philosophiques : elle rend visible l’émergence d’une subjectivité politique ouvrière en tant que point critique irréductible de la société capitaliste moderne. Reconstruire cette constellation signifie se remémorer la négation dialectique d’un ordre social devenu nature et destin.
Download or read book The Anthropological Turn written by Jacob Collins and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close look at post-1968 French thinkers Régis Debray, Emmanuel Todd, Marcel Gauchet, and Alain de Benoist In The Anthropological Turn, Jacob Collins traces the development of what he calls a tradition of "political anthropology" in France over the course of the 1970s. After the social revolution of the 1960s brought new attention to identities and groups that had previously been marginal in French society, the country entered a period of stagnation: the economy slowed, the political system deadlocked, and the ideologies of communism and Catholicism lost their appeal. In this time of political, cultural, and economic indeterminacy, political anthropology, as Collins defines it, offered social theorists grand narratives that could give greater definition to "the social" by anchoring its laws and histories in the deep and sometimes archaic past. Political anthropologists sought to answer the most basic of questions: what is politics and what constitutes a political community? Collins focuses on four influential, yet typically overlooked, French thinkers—Régis Debray, Emmanuel Todd, Marcel Gauchet, and Alain de Benoist —who, from Left to far Right, represent different political leanings in France. Through a close and comprehensive reading of their work, he explores how key issues of religion, identity, citizenship, and the state have been conceptualized and debated across a wide spectrum of opinion in contemporary France. Collins argues that the stakes have not changed since the 1970s and rival conceptions of the republic continue to vie for dominance. Political and cultural issues of the moment—the burkini, for example—become magnified and take on the character of an anthropological threat. In this respect, he shows how the anthropological turn, as it figures in the work of Debray, Todd, Gauchet, and Benoist, is a useful lens for viewing the political and social controversies that have shaped French history for the last forty years.
Download or read book The Concept in Crisis written by Nick Nesbitt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Reading Capital—by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière—in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical theory, bringing forth a stunning array of concepts that continue to inspire philosophical reflection of the highest magnitude. The Concept in Crisis reconsiders the volume’s reading of Marx and renews its call for a critique of capitalism and culture for the twenty-first century. The contributors—who include Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, and Fernanda Navarro—interrogate Althusser's contributions in particular within the context of what is surely the most famous collective reading of Marx ever undertaken. Among other topics, they offer a symptomatic critique of Althusser; consider his writing as a materialist production of knowledge; analyze the volume’s conceptualization of value and crisis; examine how leftist Latin American leaders like Che Guevara and Subcomandante Marcos engaged with Althusser and Reading Capital; and draw out the volume's implications and use for feminist theory and praxis. Retrieving the inspiration that drove Althusser's reinterpretation of Marx, The Concept in Crisis explains why Reading Capital's revolutionary inflection retains its critical appeal, prompting readers to reconsider Marx's relevance in an era of neoliberal capitalism. Contributors. Emily Apter, Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Bruno Bosteels, Adrian Johnston, Warren Montag, Fernanda Navarro, Nick Nesbitt, Knox Peden, Nina Power, Robert J. C. Young
Download or read book Enqu te ouvri re et th orie critique written by Andrea Cavazzini and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suite à la dissolution de la perspective marxiste et aux transformations néo-libérales du capitalisme à la fin des années 1970, la Classe ouvrière s'est éclipsée : après des décennies de déclin social et d'invisibilité politique, les ouvriers n'apparaissent plus aujourd'hui que comme les victimes de la crise, du chômage de masse et de conditions de vie souvent meurtrières. Mais la centralité politique et sociale de la Classe ouvrière a constitué un facteur décisif de Fhistoire du XXe siècle. La Classe représentait à la fois un élément essentiel dans le fonctionnement de l'économie capitaliste et un principe d'antagonisme subjectif qui annonçait dans ses formes de vie la possibilité d'une organisation sociale différente. Cet ouvrage reconstruit un épisode significatif de l'histoire de la centralité ouvrière : la séquence politique des années 1960 en Italie. La Nouvelle Gauche italienne - en particulier la revue-collectif Quaderni Ross - a produit une fusion originale entre l'enquête menée dans les usines comme pratique militante directe et la théorie critique du capitalisme moderne inspirée par Lukâcs et l'École de Francfort. Malgré sa brièveté, cette expérience fut décisive pour la longue saison italienne des luttes sociales : elle a réussi à articuler l'exigence d'ancrer la politique à la vie ordinaire des classes laborieuses, la tentative de surmonter la crise du mouvement ouvrier après la glaciation stalinienne et la confrontation avec les diagnostics philosophiques de la modernité élaborés par Hegel et Max Weber. À la fois intervention militante et production de connaissances, l'enquête est le fil conducteur qui permet de reconstruire cette conjoncture et ses enjeux historiques et philosophiques : elle rend visible l'émergence d'une subjectivité politique ouvrière en tant que point critique irréductible de la société capitaliste moderne. Reconstruire cette constellation signifie se remémorer la négation dialectique d'un ordre social devenu nature et destin.
Download or read book Erich Fromm s Critical Theory written by Kieran Durkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Fromm is increasing: as a prominent Marxist, sociologist, psychoanalytic theorist, and public intellectual, the unique normative-humanist thrust of his writings provides a crucial critical reference point for those seeking to understand and transcend the societal pathologies of our age. The essays in this volume retrieve, revive, and expand upon Fromm's central insights and contributions. They offer a critical theory of culture, the self, psychology and society that goes beyond what is typical of the narrower concerns of the fragmented and isolated disciplines of today, demonstrating the pan-disciplinary potential of Fromm's work. But this book does not simply reassert Fromm's ideas and rehash his theories, but rather reconstructs them to bring them into meaningful dialogue with contemporary ideas and cultural, political and economic developments. Providing new approaches to Fromm's ideas and work brings them up-to-date with contemporary problems and debates in theory and society and helps us understand the challenges of our times.
Download or read book Frankfurt School written by J. M. Bernstein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frankfurt School' refers to the members associated with the "Institut fur Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) " which was founded in Frankfurt in 1923. The work of this group is generally agreed to have been a landmark in twentieth century social science. It is of seminal importance in our understanding of culture, progress, politics, production, consumption and method. This set of six volumes provides a full picture of the School by examining the important developments that have occured since the deaths of the original core of Frankfurt scholars. All the major figures--Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Benjamin--are represented. In particular, the important post-war work of Jurgen Habermas is fully assessed. The collection also covers the work of many of the minor figures associated with the School who have been unfairly neglected in the past, resulting in the most complete survey and guide to the "oeuvre" of the Frankfurt School.
Download or read book Active Intolerance written by Perry Zurn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.
Download or read book The Craft of Sociology written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, over the last two decades, as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. The Craft of Sociology, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological break with the preconstructed objects social practice offers to the researcher. Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue in the epistemological tradition of scholars like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a tradition that identifies the construction of the object as being the fundamental scientific act. Their way of discussing the issue makes it accessible not only to academics and experts of epistemology, but also to advanced students of social science, using for illustration a wide range of texts from the various social sciences as well as from philosophy of science. The book includes an interview with Pierre Bourdieu and an introduction by the editor to his sociological methodology.
Download or read book The Journal of Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers topics in philosophy, psychology, and scientific methods. Vols. 31- include "A Bibliography of philosophy," 1933-
Download or read book Assembly Line written by Waldemar Grzechca and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts are added to a product in a sequential manner using optimally planned logistics to create a finished product in the fastest possible way. It is a flow-oriented production system where the productive units performing the operations, referred to as stations, are aligned in a serial manner. The present edited book is a collection of 12 chapters written by experts and well-known professionals of the field. The volume is organized in three parts according to the last research works in assembly line subject. The first part of the book is devoted to the assembly line balancing problem. It includes chapters dealing with different problems of ALBP. In the second part of the book some optimization problems in assembly line structure are considered. In many situations there are several contradictory goals that have to be satisfied simultaneously. The third part of the book deals with testing problems in assembly line. This section gives an overview on new trends, techniques and methodologies for testing the quality of a product at the end of the assembling line.
Download or read book Australian Journal of French Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianisme Et Classe Ouvri re written by François André Isambert and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International review of sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Spirit of Capitalism written by Luc Boltanski and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism , a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
