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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793558703321

Autore

Stolze Ted

Titolo

Becoming Marxist : studies in philosophy, struggle, and endurance / / by Ted Stolze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-28098-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 pages)

Collana

Historical materialism book series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 190

Disciplina

335.4

Soggetti

Philosophy, Marxist

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Motto -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Marxism and the History of Philosophy -- What is a Philosophical Tendency? -- Paul of Tarsus, Thinker of the Conjuncture -- Paul’s Gift Economy: Wages, Debt, and Debt Cancellation -- Althusser and the Problem of Historical Individuality -- ‘The Roaring of the Sea’: Hobbes on the Madness of the Multitude -- Spinoza’s Three Modes of Rebellion: Indignant, Glorious, and Serene -- Alexandre Matheron on Militant Reason and the Intellectual Love of God -- An Ethics for Marxism: Spinoza on Fortitude -- Marxism and Contemporary Philosophy -- Death and Life in Marx’s Capital: an Ethical Investigation -- Hegel or Spinoza: Substance, Subject, and Critical Marxism -- Contradictions of Hyperreality: Baudrillard, Žižek, and Virtual Dialectics -- A Marxist Encounter with the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze -- Deleuze and Althusser: Flirting with Structuralism -- Marxist Wisdom: Antonio Negri on the Book of Job -- A Displaced Transition: Habermas on the Public Sphere -- Self-Emancipation, Then and Now -- Self-Emancipation and Political Marxism -- Islamophobia and Self-Emancipation -- Climate Crisis, Ideology, and Collective Action -- Beatitude: Marx, Aristotle, Averroes, Spinoza -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Becoming Marxist Ted Stolze offers a series of studies that take up the importance of philosophy for the development of an open and critical Marxism. He argues that an adequate ‘philosophy for Marxism’ must be open to engagement with a diverse range of traditions, texts,



and authors – from Paul of Tarsus, via Averroes, Spinoza, and Hobbes, to Althusser, Deleuze, Negri, Habermas, and Žižek. Stolze also explores such practical contemporary issues as the politics of self-emancipation, the nature of Islamophobia, and climate change.