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In this book, Elías José Palti analyzes the writings of key thinkers who have theorised the present situation of Marxism: Anderson, Jameson, Laclau, Žižek, Butler, Badiou and Derrida.
The Crisis of Marxism aspires to clarify why the current crisis of Marxism contains some fundamental clues for it.
List of contents
Preface to the English Edition. Prologue. Introduction: Crisis of Ideas and Ideas of Crisis: Marxism as a Laboratory.
PART I: Marxism's Truth and Knowledge in the "Short 20th Century" 1. Knowledge without Truth: (Perry Anderson and Fredric Jameson: Marxism and Postmodernism) 2. Trotskyism as the Implicit
Truth of Marxism: Nahuel Moreno: History, Contingency, and Tragic Sense
PART II: Marxism in the Post-Tragic Scene 3.
Truth as a
Postulate: Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek: The
Real and the
Imaginary of Marxism 4.
Truth as
Promise: Jacques Derrida and His Specters 5.
Truth as a
Bet: Alain Badiou and the "Experience of the Disaster" Epilogue: The Quest for the Politics of Our Time
About the author
Elías J. Palti obtained his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a consulting professor at the University of Buenos Aires and formerly was the director of the Center for Intellectual History at the National University of Quilmes and a principal researcher at Argentina's National Research Council (CONICET). Palti has published widely in the field of intellectual history across six different languages. His more recent publications include
An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2017),
Misplaced Ideas: Political-Intellectual History in Latin America (2024), and
Political-Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change (2024).
