Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Andrew Chitty and Martin McIvor, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
Jeff Noonan
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Debates ◽  
Contemporary Context

AbstractThis essay is a review ofKarl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy. While the text will provide even knowledgeable Marxist readers with new insights on key texts and concepts in Marx, it nevertheless fails to intervene in crucial contemporary philosophical debates. The book is concerned less with the contemporary significance of Marxist philosophyas philosophyand more with re-reading classical Marxist texts in a contemporary context. This job it does well, but leaves the more important question of what Marxists have to say about fundamental philosophical problems today unaddressed for the most part.

History and Event

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Coombs
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Complementary Pair ◽  
Louis Althusser ◽  
The Status ◽  
French Theory ◽  
Historical Necessity

This book challenges the use of the terms 'history' and 'event' to register the shift from historical necessity in Marxism to contingent events in contemporary philosophy. It argues both classical Marxism and a strand of French theory after Louis Althusser understand history and event not as binary opposites but as a complementary pair. For Marxism, the fusion is accomplished by Hegelian dialectics and the idea of quantity to quality leaps. After Althusser, epistemological breaks in science provide the model for thinking revolutions as discontinuous with the status quo. Through critical readings of Hegel, Marx and Lenin, the first part of the book interrogates the politics of Marxist philosophy. While defending Marx from charges of 'historicism', the inability of Hegel's ‘leaps’ to think epistemological breaks is shown to support political gradualism and technological determinism. The book's second part, on Althusser, Badiou and Meillassoux, argues that although their philosophies think discontinuity more successfully, they tend towards a self-referential rationalism that shores up the authority of theorists. The final part of the book suggests that a way forward can be found in complexity theory and 'weak' notions of emergence.

scholarly journals David Harvey: Dispossession or Expropriation? Does capital have an “outside”?

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2199-2211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virgínia Fontes
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Comparative Investigation ◽  
The State ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

Abstract The present excerpt is taken from a book that stands for the concept of capital-imperialism in order to explain the contemporary period (which integrates theory of value and the state). It proposes a debate, with David Harvey, on the concept of accumulation by dispossession, arguing that expropriation forms are not limited to a "primitive" moment but they are part of an enlarged form of expansion of capital and capitalism itself. It presents a comparative investigation between the formulations present in the works of Karl Marx, Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg, to critically reflect on the concepts of "external/internal", as well as expropriation and capitalist accumulation in the contemporary context.

Two Unpublished Manuscripts by Karl Marx

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-297
Author(s):  
Norman Levine
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Friedrich Engels ◽  
Marxist Humanism ◽  
Unpublished Manuscripts ◽  
First Time ◽  
Second International

In the past forty-three years Marxologists were compelled to absorb two new manuscripts of extraordinary significance. Although prepared in Moscow by D. Rjazanov, the Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe was issued in Berlin in 1932 and contained the first publication of Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts In 1939 and 1941 respectively, single volumes of a limited two-volume edition of the Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie were published by the Foreign Language Publishers in Moscow. Generally, this edition went unnoticed until a single-volume publication of the Grundrisse was issued by Dietz Verlag of Berlin 1953. and shortly thereafter the Grundrisse became a manuscript of enormous importance to Marxist theory. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and the Grundrisse caused a revolution in the interpretation of Marxism. The Marx of the Second International, of Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky, the Marx of Bolshevism, of Lenin and Stalin and “Diamat,” was completely revised. In essence, the publication of these new sources commenced forty-three years of extensive revision and intensive contention which still continue. This was not surprising, because the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and the Grundrisse proved to be major repositories of Marxist philosophy: they revealed for the first time the full amplitude of Marxist humanism.

Some Varieties of Humility Worth Wanting

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Nadelhoffer ◽  
Jennifer Cole Wright ◽  
Matthew Echols ◽  
Tyler Perini ◽  
Kelly Venezia
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philosophical Debates ◽  
Theology And Philosophy

In this paper we first set the stage with a brief overview of the tangled history of humility in theology and philosophy—beginning with its treatment in the Bible and ending with the more recent work that has been done in contemporary philosophy (§§1–2). Our two-fold goal at this early stage of the paper is to explore some of the different accounts of humility that have traditionally been developed and highlight some of the key debates in the current literature. Next, we present the findings from several studies we recently conducted in an effort to explore people’s intuitions and beliefs about humility as well as their experiences with being humble (or failing to be humble) (§3). Finally, we discuss the relevance of our findings to the ongoing philosophical debates about humility—suggesting that while some varieties of humility are problematic, other varieties of humility are certainly worth wanting (§4).

scholarly journals Justice of ≪new man≫ in Karl Marx' vision

Sæculum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Ion Dur ◽  
Andrei Claudiu Dipşe
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Communist Society ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
New Man ◽  
Fair Distribution ◽  
Philosophical Debates

AbstractThis study aims to highlight the problem of justice in Karl Marx’s vision from the perspective of the critique of capitalism. Although, there is a strong dialectic in the socio-political and philosophical debates among political thinkers (including Marxists) on the existence or non-existence of a theory of justice in Marxism, the exegesis of Marxist writings reveals two types of justice (“Justice through fair distribution and Justice through the dictatorship of the proletariat”). The first aspect the study proposes is to reinforce and argue for the existence of a Marxist theory of Justice, followed by a critical analysis of how this is reflected in both socialist and communist society.

Marx and the “law of value”: Critical appraisal on the occasion of his 200th birth anniversary

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. Kurz
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Use Value ◽  
Transformation Problem ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law

The paper celebrates Karl Marx’ 200th birthday in terms of a critical discussion of the “law of value” and the idea that “abstract labour”, and not any use value, is the common third of any two commodities that exchange for one another in a given proportion. It is argued that this view is difficult to sustain. It is also the source of the wretched and unnecessary “transformation problem”. Ironically, as Piero Sraffa has shown, prices of production and the general rate of profits are fully determined in terms of the same set of data from which Marx started his analysis.

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