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Book Translating Marx

Download or read book Translating Marx written by Martín Cortés and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Translating Marx, Martín Cortés ponders José Aricó’s contributions towards the constitution of Latin American Marxism. Accordingly, he studies Aricó in terms of his trajectory as a publisher and translator, while considering his thoughts on Marxism’s fundamental theoretical problems.

Book On the Nature of Marx s Things

Download or read book On the Nature of Marx s Things written by Jacques Lezra and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Nature of Marx’s Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marx’s earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls necrophilological translation that continues to haunt Marx’s inheritors. This Lucretian strain, requiring that we think materiality in non-self-evident ways, as dynamic, aleatory, and always marked by its relation to language, raises central questions about ontology, political economy, and reading. “Lezra,” writes Vittorio Morfino in his preface, “transfers all of the power of the Althusserian encounter into his conception of translation.” Lezra’s expansive understanding of translation covers practices that put different natural and national languages into relation, often across periods, but also practices or mechanisms internal to each language. Obscured by later critical attention to the contradictory lexicons—of fetishism and of chrematistics—that Capital uses to describe how value accrues to commodities, and by the dialectical approach that’s framed Marx’s work since Engels sought to marry it to the natural philosophy of his time, necrophilological translation has a troubling, definitive influence in Marx’s thought and in his wake. It entails a radical revision of what counts as translation, and wholly new ways of imagining what an object is, of what counts as matter, value, sovereignty, mediation, and even number. In On the Nature of Marx’s Things a materialism “of the encounter,” as recent criticism in the vein of the late Althusser calls it, encounters Marxological value-form theory, post-Schmittian divisible sovereignty, object-oriented-ontologies and the critique of correlationism, and philosophies of translation and untranslatability in debt to Quine, Cassin, and Derrida. The inheritors of the problems with which Marx grapples range from Spinoza’s marranismo, through Melville’s Bartleby, through the development of a previously unexplored Freudian political theology shaped by the revolutionary traditions of Schiller and Verdi, through Adorno’s exilic antihumanism against Said’s cosmopolitan humanism, through today’s new materialisms. Ultimately, necrophilology draws the story of capital’s capture of difference away from the story of capital’s production of subjectivity. It affords concepts and procedures for dismantling the system of objects on which neoliberal capitalism stands: concrete, this-wordly things like commodities, but also such “objects” as debt traps, austerity programs, the marketization of risk; ideologies; the pedagogical, professional, legal, even familial institutions that produce and reproduce inequities today.

Book Marx on Suicide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karl Marx
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780810116382
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Marx on Suicide written by Karl Marx and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative volume presents a glimpse of social philosopher Karl Marx's views on the subject of suicide.

Book All that is Solid Melts Into Air

Download or read book All that is Solid Melts Into Air written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Book Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic

Download or read book Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic written by Mario Santiago Papasquiaro and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fierce and visceral, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's poem is as canonical to Infrarealism as Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" was to the Beats.

Book Philosophy of Nonsense

Download or read book Philosophy of Nonsense written by Jean-Jacques Lecercle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new book by Jean-Jacques Lecercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy.

Book Poetry of the Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Puchner
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780691122601
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Poetry of the Revolution written by Martin Puchner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Puchner tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the political manifestos of the 19th and 20th centuries. He argues that the manifesto was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires.

Book Reading Marx in the Information Age

Download or read book Reading Marx in the Information Age written by Christian Fuchs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles. Through a range of international, current-day examples, Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context.

Book Karl Marx   s Ecosocialism

Download or read book Karl Marx s Ecosocialism written by Kohei Saito and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delving into Karl Marx's central works as well as his natural scientific notebooks, published only recently and still being translated, [the author] argues that Karl Marx actually saw the environment crisis embedded in captialism. [The book] shows us that Marx has given us more than we once thought, that we can now come closer to finishing Marx's critique, and to building a sustainable ecosocialist world."--Page [4] of cover.

Book Marx  Towards the Centre of Possibility

Download or read book Marx Towards the Centre of Possibility written by Kojin Karatani and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic study of Marx by Japan's leading critical theorist Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been amongst his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the New Left had collapsed into crisis and violence, with widespread political exhaustion for the competing sectarian visions of Marxism from 1968, Karatani's Marx laid the groundwork for a new reading, unfamiliar to the existing Marxist discourse in Japan at the time. Karatani's Marx takes on insights from semiotics, deconstruction, and the reading of Marx as a literary thinker, treating Capital as an intervention in philosophy that could be read as itself a theory of signs. Marx is unique in this sense, not only because of its importance in post-68 Japanese thought, but also because the heterodox reading of Marx that Karatani debuts in this text, centered on his theory of the value-form, will go on to form the basis of his globally-influential work.

Book After Marx  Before Lenin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary P. Steenson
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 1991-06-15
  • ISBN : 0822976730
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book After Marx Before Lenin written by Gary P. Steenson and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1991-06-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Gary P. Steenson offers new interpretations of the history and nature of socialist movements in Germany, France, Austria, and Italy, from after Karl Marx's death until World War I. Based largely on Friedrich Engels's correspondence and those of other socialist party leaders, Steenson analyzes Engels's view of European politics and those of his strategic counsel. He also derives the standards of Marxian orthodoxy from party publications and the political press. The central importance of Engels is clear, as is the seductive appeal of his frequently insightful, often misguided counsel to working politicians. Steenson also finds that this period saw no contradiction in adherence to Marxism and full participation in democratic, representative politics-and that in those countries where democratic forms did not exist, Marxists led the struggle to obtain them.

Book Marx at the Movies

Download or read book Marx at the Movies written by Lars Kristensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marx and the Moving Image approaches cinema from a Marxist perspective. It argues that the supposed 'end of history', marked by the comprehensive triumph of capitalism and the 'end of cinema', calls for revisiting Marx's writings in order to analyse film theories, histories and practices.

Book Aesthetic Marx

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samir Gandesha
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-10-19
  • ISBN : 135002421X
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Aesthetic Marx written by Samir Gandesha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire), from the radical modernism of bourgeois development to the very idea of association (which defined one of the main lines of tradition in the history of aesthetics), steady references to Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, and the idea that bourgeois politics is nothing but a theatrical stage: the aesthetic has a prominent place in the constellation of Marx's thought. This book offers an original and challenging study of both Marx in the aesthetic, and the aesthetic in Marx. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory as it understands the works of Marx themselves as contributions to thinking the aesthetic. This is an engagement with Marx's aesthetic that takes into account Marx's broader sense of the aesthetic, as identified by Eagleton and Buck-Morss – as a question of sense perception and the body. It explores this through questions of style and substance in Marx and extends it into contemporary questions of how this legacy can be perceived or directed analytically in the present. By situating Marx in contemporary art debates this volume speaks directly to lively interest today in the function of the aesthetic in accounts of emancipatory politics and is essential reading for researchers and academics across the fields of political philosophy, art theory, and Marxist scholarship.

Book An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx s Capital

Download or read book An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx s Capital written by Michael Heinrich and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a surge in sales of Karl Marx's Capital. Although mainstream economists and commentators once dismissed Marx's work as outmoded and flawed, some are begrudgingly acknowledging an analysis that sees capitalism as inherently unstable. And of course, there are those, like Michael Heinrich, who have seen the value of Marx all along, and are in a unique position to explain the intricacies of Marx's thought. Heinrich's modern interpretation of Capital is now available to English-speaking readers for the first time. It has gone through nine editions in Germany, is the standard work for Marxist study groups, and is used widely in German universities. The author systematically covers all three volumes of Capital and explains all the basic aspects of Marx's critique of capitalism in a way that is clear and concise. He provides background information on the intellectual and political milieu in which Marx worked, and looks at crucial issues beyond the scope of Capital, such as class struggle, the relationship between capital and the state, accusations of historical determinism, and Marx's understanding of communism. Uniquely, Heinrich emphasizes the monetary character of Marx's work, in addition to the traditional emphasis on the labor theory of value, this highlighting the relevance of Capital to the age of financial explosions and implosions.

Book Minor Works of Marx

Download or read book Minor Works of Marx written by Karl Marx and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new 2023 translation of the minor works of Marx into American English. This edition includes a new introduction by the translator and reference materials including a Glossary of Philosophic and Economic Marxist Terminology, an Index of Personalities Associated with Marx and a Timeline of Marx’s Life and Works. This is volume XIII, the last volume, in the Complete Works of Karl Marx by Newcomb Livraria Press. This series offers fresh translations of Marx's works from the original manuscripts chronologically laid out, including rare and unpublished manuscripts. Marx was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of massive works and drafting a dozen books that were never finished. Marx published a dozen articles in the New-York Daily Tribune, now the New York Times, as well as countless pamphlets and essays in various journals and magazines. In 1864, he wrote a letter directly to Abraham Lincoln on his re-election after years of commenting on the Civil War extensively. This series resurrects these manuscripts with new life in unabridged, literal translations directly from the original manuscripts into modern American English. This volume contains all of Marx's minor manuscripts, including his letter to Abraham Lincoln and his Thesis on Feuerbach. These works provide critical context to the development of Marx's ideology across the years. Included here are translations of: 1842 Remarks on the new Prussian censorship instruction 1842 The Proceedings of the 6th Rhenish Parliament 1842 The Philosophical Manifesto of the Historical School of Law 1844 On the Jewish Question 1845 Theses on Feuerbach 1846 To Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America 1865 Wage, Price, Profit

Book The Communist Manifesto  English  German  Spanish  French  and Italian Translations

Download or read book The Communist Manifesto English German Spanish French and Italian Translations written by Karl Marx and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous documents in world history is presented here in five translations, including Spanish, French, Italian, English, and the original German. Penned in 1847 by philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich engels, The Communist Manifesto has impacted world events and the fate of nations in a way few other written works ever have. The scholar of political science and world history will gain an invaluable insight into the functions behind both by studying this tome, and the student of languages will profit from it as well. Learn what has inspired the movement that has captured the intense passion of such a huge swath of the human species for well over a century.

Book A World to Win

Download or read book A World to Win written by Sven-Eric Liedman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Marx has fascinated and inspired generations of radicals in the past 200 years. In this new, definitive biography, Sven-Eric Liebman makes his work live once more for a new generation. Despite 200 years having passed since his birth, his burning condemnation of capitalism remains of immediate interest. Now, more than ever before, Marx's texts can be read for what they truly are. In addition to providing a living picture of Marx the man, his life, and his family and friends - as well as his lifelong collaboration with Friedrich Engels - Sweden's leading intellectual historian Sven-Eric Liedman, in this major new biography, shows what Karl Marx the thinker and researcher really wrote, demonstrating that this giant of the nineteenth century can still exert a powerful attraction for the inhabitants of the twenty-first.