Posts tagged ‘Marxism’
Are you now or have you ever been a bourgeois philosopher?
by Nickolas Lambrianou / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Review
Michael Wayne, Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique, Bloomsbury, London, 2014. 226 pp., £65.00 hb., 978 1 47251 134 8.
This book intends to proffer a Marxist or, more specifically, ‘anti-bourgeois’ reading of Kant’s critical project and the third Critique in particular, and to draw out the political value of the aesthetic as …
A is for apocalypse
by Matthew Charles / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Review
David J. Blacker, The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame , Zero Books, Winchester and Washington DC, 2013. 319 pp., £15.99 pb., 978 1 78099 578 6.
Amidst the recent flood of lachrymose reports on the neoliberal assault upon education, this book stands out for its unflinching survey of the extent of the …
184 Reviews
Neil Davidson, How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? Alain Badiou, Cinema George Henderson, Value in Marx: The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman David Kilcullen, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl and Dorothy Ko, eds, The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory Federico Campagna, The Last Night: Atheism, Anti-work and Adventure Gyanedra Pandey, A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States Peter K.J. Park, Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780–1830 Gilbert Achcar, Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism
by John Kraniauskas, Garin V. Dowd, Stewart Martin, Eva Giraud, Mark Neocleous, Dylan Evans, Daniel Whittall, Nardina Kaur, Carrie Giunta and Michael Löwy / RP 184 (Mar/Apr 2014) / Reviews
A differing shade of green
by Allan Stoekl / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / Review
Adrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013. 224 pp., £20.50 hb., 978 0 23115 828 2.
This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others – one …
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Review
Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive …
Noam Chomsky
Freedom and power
by Noam Chomsky and Peter Hallward / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Interview
Peter Hallward I’d like to start by asking you about some of your basic philosophical principles, starting with your understanding of human freedom and creativity. In the modern European tradition I’m most familiar with, freedom is a dominant philosophical theme from Descartes through Rousseau to Kant. With Kant we have an affirmation …
Inside the factory, and out
by John Kraniauskas / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Review
Fredric Jameson, Representing ‘Capital’: A Reading of Volume One, Verso, London and New York, 2011. 158pp., £14.99 hb., 978 1 84467 454 1.
John Kraniauskas
Fredric Jameson’s latest book, published hot on the heels of a monograph on Hegel’s Phenomenology (The Hegel Variations, 2010) and a large collection of essays on the dialectic …
Lenin and Gandhi
A missed encounter?
by Étienne Balibar / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Article
The theme I shall address today has all the trappings of an academic exercise.* Still, I would like to attempt to show how it intersects with several major historical, epistemological and ultimately political questions. As a basis for the discussion, I will posit that Lenin and Gandhi are the two greatest figures among revolutionary theorist–practitioners …
David Macey, 1949-2011
Biographer of the French intellectual Left
by Neil Belton and Peter Osborne / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Obituary
David Macey died from complications of lung cancer on 7 October. He embodied the paradox of being a fine public intellectual while remaining an intenselyprivate person. He was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation and added appreciably to scholarly knowledge, yet did his most significant work as a freelance writer …
Why Keynes was wrong
by Stephen Harper / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Review
Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right, Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2011. 258 pp., £16.99 hb., 978 0 30016 943 0.
Paul Mattick, Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism, Reaktion Books, London, 2011. 126 pp. £12.95 pb., 978 1 86189 801 2.
Stephen Harper
In 2008, as …
Theory (Madness of)
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (2)
by Francois Cusset / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
Forty years or so after it initially rose as a rather new name for a rather new thing, theory is still an obtruse signifier, troubling and floating, requiring we go back to basics. Theory as we most often understand it today is the name given by the English-speaking intellectual community to a certain …
Between sharing and antagonism
The invention of communism in the early Marx
by Antonia Birnbaum / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / Article
London calling
Why talk about communism today?* A first point everybody will be agreed upon: the spectre of communism is not haunting Europe, nor for that matter any other region of the world. The only place where ‘communism’ is a positive name for anything is China, where it designates the ruling party of one of …
Structure: method or subversion of the social sciences?
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)
by Étienne Balibar / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
It seems there’s no longer any real doubt as to the answer to this question, and that it is doubly negative. ‘Structuralism’, or what was designated as such mainly in France in the 1960s and 1970s (setting aside the question of other uses), is no longer regarded as a truly fertile method in the domains …
Who needs postcoloniality?
A reply to Lindner
by Harry Harootunian / RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010) / Article
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 archaic societies and lay the …
Marxism and war
by Étienne Balibar / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / Article
War for Marxism is not exactly a concept, but it is certainly a problem.* While Marxism could not invent a concept of war, it could re-create it, so to speak – that is, introduce the question of war into its own problematic, and produce a Marxist critiqueof war, or a critical theory of warfare, war …
Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf
Propaganda architecture
by Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Jon Goodbun and David Cunningham / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009) / Interview
Non-traduttore, traditore?
Notes on postwar European Marxisms
by Gregory Elliott / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / Article
Are you now or have you ever been a bourgeois philosopher?
by Nickolas Lambrianou / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / ReviewMichael Wayne, Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique, Bloomsbury, London, 2014. 226 pp., £65.00 hb., 978 1 47251 134 8.
This book intends to proffer a Marxist or, more specifically, ‘anti-bourgeois’ reading of Kant’s critical project and the third Critique in particular, and to draw out the political value of the aesthetic as …
A is for apocalypse
by Matthew Charles / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / ReviewDavid J. Blacker, The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame , Zero Books, Winchester and Washington DC, 2013. 319 pp., £15.99 pb., 978 1 78099 578 6.
Amidst the recent flood of lachrymose reports on the neoliberal assault upon education, this book stands out for its unflinching survey of the extent of the …
184 Reviews
Neil Davidson, How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? Alain Badiou, Cinema George Henderson, Value in Marx: The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman David Kilcullen, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl and Dorothy Ko, eds, The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory Federico Campagna, The Last Night: Atheism, Anti-work and Adventure Gyanedra Pandey, A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States Peter K.J. Park, Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780–1830 Gilbert Achcar, Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanismby John Kraniauskas, Garin V. Dowd, Stewart Martin, Eva Giraud, Mark Neocleous, Dylan Evans, Daniel Whittall, Nardina Kaur, Carrie Giunta and Michael Löwy / RP 184 (Mar/Apr 2014) / Reviews
A differing shade of green
by Allan Stoekl / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / ReviewAdrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013. 224 pp., £20.50 hb., 978 0 23115 828 2.
This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others – one …
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / ReviewKevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive …
Noam Chomsky
Freedom and powerby Noam Chomsky and Peter Hallward / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Interview
Peter Hallward I’d like to start by asking you about some of your basic philosophical principles, starting with your understanding of human freedom and creativity. In the modern European tradition I’m most familiar with, freedom is a dominant philosophical theme from Descartes through Rousseau to Kant. With Kant we have an affirmation …
Inside the factory, and out
by John Kraniauskas / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / ReviewFredric Jameson, Representing ‘Capital’: A Reading of Volume One, Verso, London and New York, 2011. 158pp., £14.99 hb., 978 1 84467 454 1.
John Kraniauskas
Fredric Jameson’s latest book, published hot on the heels of a monograph on Hegel’s Phenomenology (The Hegel Variations, 2010) and a large collection of essays on the dialectic …
Lenin and Gandhi
A missed encounter?by Étienne Balibar / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Article
The theme I shall address today has all the trappings of an academic exercise.* Still, I would like to attempt to show how it intersects with several major historical, epistemological and ultimately political questions. As a basis for the discussion, I will posit that Lenin and Gandhi are the two greatest figures among revolutionary theorist–practitioners …
David Macey, 1949-2011
Biographer of the French intellectual Leftby Neil Belton and Peter Osborne / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Obituary
David Macey died from complications of lung cancer on 7 October. He embodied the paradox of being a fine public intellectual while remaining an intenselyprivate person. He was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation and added appreciably to scholarly knowledge, yet did his most significant work as a freelance writer …
Why Keynes was wrong
by Stephen Harper / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / ReviewTerry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right, Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2011. 258 pp., £16.99 hb., 978 0 30016 943 0.
Paul Mattick, Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism, Reaktion Books, London, 2011. 126 pp. £12.95 pb., 978 1 86189 801 2.
Stephen Harper
In 2008, as …
Theory (Madness of)
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (2)by Francois Cusset / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
Forty years or so after it initially rose as a rather new name for a rather new thing, theory is still an obtruse signifier, troubling and floating, requiring we go back to basics. Theory as we most often understand it today is the name given by the English-speaking intellectual community to a certain …
Between sharing and antagonism
The invention of communism in the early Marxby Antonia Birnbaum / RP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011) / Article
London calling
Why talk about communism today?* A first point everybody will be agreed upon: the spectre of communism is not haunting Europe, nor for that matter any other region of the world. The only place where ‘communism’ is a positive name for anything is China, where it designates the ruling party of one of …
Structure: method or subversion of the social sciences?
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)by Étienne Balibar / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
It seems there’s no longer any real doubt as to the answer to this question, and that it is doubly negative. ‘Structuralism’, or what was designated as such mainly in France in the 1960s and 1970s (setting aside the question of other uses), is no longer regarded as a truly fertile method in the domains …
Who needs postcoloniality?
A reply to Lindnerby Harry Harootunian / RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010) / Article
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 archaic societies and lay the …
Marxism and war
by Étienne Balibar / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / ArticleWar for Marxism is not exactly a concept, but it is certainly a problem.* While Marxism could not invent a concept of war, it could re-create it, so to speak – that is, introduce the question of war into its own problematic, and produce a Marxist critiqueof war, or a critical theory of warfare, war …
Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf
Propaganda architectureby Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Jon Goodbun and David Cunningham / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009) / Interview
Non-traduttore, traditore?
Notes on postwar European Marxismsby Gregory Elliott / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / Article
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