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Informationen zum Autor David Black is a former fleet street journalist and television documentary producer. He is the author is the Harry Gilmour series, and now lives in Argyll where he writes full-time. Klappentext This book examines the origins of philosophy in Greek Antiquity and considers key moments of philosophic history as related to revolutionary change, from the French Revolution of 1789 to the May Events of 1968 and beyond. David Black reads Hegel's philosophy-which seems to come to the fore at various "birthtimes in history"-as anticipating Marx's critique of capital, in which the logic of the system intimates a realm beyond it. The well-respected historian of philosophy, David Black, has shown himself to be a consummate philosopher, so much so that he has produced a work that will stand the test of time as a major contribution to the Marxist tradition of philosophical works. His new work is a major achievement, and one that speaks directly to the historical times that we unhappily inhabit. This work is more than a feast for academics, it is necessary fuel for revolution, a revolution that is in the making and that will benefit greatly from this work. Should the coming socialist revolution begin to turn into its opposite, this is the work that we will need to read-again and again-to get back on track. -- Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles and distinguished fellow in critical studies, Chapman University Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart OneThe Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism 1 - The 'Secret Identity' of the Commodity Form2 - The Capitalism of Philosophy? The Greek Origins of Abstraction3 - Rethinking the 'Origins of Abstraction'4 - Comedy and Tragedy5 - The Poiesis of Orpheus -Fragmentation and Wholeness6 - Hegel's Minerva7 - Community and Civil Society8 - Kant and the 'Autonomous Intellect'9 - Capitalism: De-Socialized Labor10 - Absolute Negativity as Anti-CapitalismPart TwoCritique of the Situationist Dialect: Art, Class-Consciousnesness, and Reification1 - ArtSurrealism and the Crisis of the ObjectIn the Beginning was the LetterUnitary Urbanism, Dérive and DétournementAsger Jorn, the Artists and the Founding of the Situationist International2 - Class ConsciousnessSocialisme ou BarbarieThe Critique of Everyday Life and the Hegelian Dialectic3 - ReificationThe Theory of the Spectacle-Commodity and the Influence of Georg LukácsSituationist Council CommunismThe Integrated Spectacle and GlobalizationPart ThreeEssaysLabor and Value: from the Greek Polis to Globalized State-CapitalismReification in the 21st Century - Lukács' DialecticEnds of History and New Beginnings: Hegel and the 'Dialectics of Philosophy and Organization'Conclusion - Philosophy and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century...
