Why Should a Dialectician Learn to Count to Four?

Slavoj Žižek ~ RP 058 (Summer 1991), pp. 3–9 ~ Article

Why Should a Dialectician Learn to Count to Four? Slavoj Zizek The triad and its excess How far must a Hegelian dialectician learn to count? Most of the interpreters of Hegel, not to mention his critics, are trying to convince us in unison that the right answer reads: to three (the dialectical triad, etc.). Moreover, […]

Capitalist Epics: Abstraction, totality and the theory of the novel

David Cunningham ~ RP 163 (Sep/Oct 2010) ~ Article

In our recent highlight from RP163, David Cunningham examines the relationship between Lukács' 'The Theory of the Novel' and his later Marxist works, and its asks how we are to read this work today.

Who needs postcoloniality?: A reply to Lindner

Harry Harootunian ~ RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010) ~ Article

Who needs postcoloniality? A reply to Lindner Harry harootunian In Marx’s articles for the New York Tribune on British colonialism in India and the events leading to the Second Anglo-Chinese War (Opium War), critics have caught sight of a double mission attributed by him to British imperialism and colonialism to tear down the structure of […]