Becoming Marxist - Studies in Philosophy, Struggle, and Endurance

Marxism, to be truly relevant, must engage in constant critical encounter with contemporary ideas. Stolze shows us how to Become Marxist.

List of contents

Prefatory Note Acknowledgements Abbreviations
Part 1 Marxism and the History of Philosophy

1 What is a Philosophical Tendency?
2 Paul of Tarsus, Thinker of the Conjuncture
3 Paul's Gift Economy: Wages, Debt, and Debt Cancellation
4 Althusser and the Problem of Historical Individuality
5 'The Roaring of the Sea': Hobbes on the Madness of the Multitude
6 Spinoza's Three Modes of Rebellion: Indignant, Glorious, and Serene
7 Alexandre Matheron on Militant Reason and the Intellectual Love of God
Interlude: An Ethics for Marxism: Spinoza on Fortitude
Part 2 Marxism and Contemporary Philosophy

8 Death and Life in Marx's Capital: An Ethical Investigation
9 Hegel or Spinoza: Substance, Subject, and Critical Marxism
10 Contradictions of Hyperreality: Baudrillard, Žižek, and Virtual Dialectics
11 A Marxist Encounter with the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
12 Deleuze and Althusser: Flirting with Structuralism
13 Marxist Wisdom: Antonio Negri on the Book of Job
14 A Displaced Transition: Jürgen Habermas on the Public Sphere
Part 3 Self-Emancipation, Then and Now

15 Self-Emancipation and Political Marxism
16 Islamophobia and Self-Emancipation
17 Climate Crisis, Ideology, and Collective Action
Coda. Beatitude: Marx, Aristotle, Averroes, Spinoza
Bibliography Index

About the author

Ted Stolze, Ph.D. (1996), Claremont Graduate University, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cerritos College. He is the co-editor (with Warren Montag) of The New Spinoza (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and has published articles on Spinoza, Hobbes, Althusser, Deleuze, Habermas, Negri, and Žižek.

Summary

Marxism, to be truly relevant, must engage in constant critical encounter with contemporary ideas. Stolze shows us how to Become Marxist.

Product details

• Authors: Ted Stolze, Stolze Ted
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2020
• EAN: 9781642591897
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-189-7
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism