Jacques Bidet Fécondité et ambiguïté du concept d’aliénation : Le Capital après Althusser, in Jean-Claude Bourdin (coord.), Althusser, une lecture de Marx, PUF, 2008

Jacques Bidet

Fécondité et ambiguïté du concept d’aliénation : Le Capital après Althusser,

 in Jean-Claude Bourdin (coord.), Althusser, une lecture de Marx, PUF, 2008

How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism Eric Hobsbawm

http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Title/9781408702871 

How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism

Eric Hobsbawm

In the 162 years since Karl Marx’s Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free market reaches its extreme limits in the economic and environmental fallout, a reassessment of capitalism’s most vigorous and eloquent enemy has never been more timely.

Eric Hobsbawm provides a fascinating and insightful overview of Marxism. He investigates its influences and analyses the spectacular reversal of Marxism’s fortunes over the past thirty years.

 

Riccardo Bellofiore and Roberto Fineschi (eds) Re-reading Marx: New Perspectives after the Critical Edition Reviewed by Nick Gray 4 January 2011

Riccardo Bellofiore and Roberto Fineschi (eds)
Re-reading Marx: New Perspectives after the Critical Edition
Reviewed by Nick Gray
4 January 2011

http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/252 

Happy new year! Buon anno! Guten Rutsch! etc.

Happy new year! Buon anno! Guten Rutsch! etc.

Stephen Houlgate, The opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity, Purdue University Press, 2006

Stephen Houlgate, The opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity, Purdue University Press, 2006

Hegel is one of the most important modern philosophers, whose thought influenced the development of existentialism, Marxism, pragmatism, hermeneutics and deconstruction. Yet Hegel's central text, the monumental Science of Logic, still remains for most philosophers (both figuratively and literally) a firmly closed book. The purpose of The Opening of Hegel's Science of Logic is to dispel the myths that surround the Logic and to show that Hegel's unjustly neglected text is a work of extraordinary subtlety and insight. Part One argues that the Logic provides a rigorous derivation of the fundamental categories of thought and contrasts Hegel's approach to the categories with that of Kant. It goes on to examine the historical and linguistic presuppositions of Hegel's self-critical, "presuppositionless" logic and, in the process, considers several significant criticisms of such logic advanced by Schelling, Feuerbach, Gadamer and Kierkegaard. Separate chapters are devoted to the relationship between logic and ontology in Hegel's Logic and to the relationship between the Logic itself and the Phenomenology.Part Two contains the text - in German and English - of the first two chapters of Hegel's Logic, which cover such categories as being, becoming, something, limit, finitude and infinity. Part Three then provides a clear and accessible commentary on these two chapters that both examines Hegel's arguments in detail and relates his insights to those of other philosophers, such as Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche and Levinas. The Opening of Hegel's Science of Logic aims to help students and scholars read Hegel's often formidably difficult text for themselves and discover the wealth of philosophical riches that it contains. It also argues that Hegel's project of a presuppositionless science of logic is one that deserves serious consideration today.

Gramsci & Hegemony | Peter D Thomas | Counterforum | London | 3 May 2010

The Gramscian Moment Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism Peter D. Thomas

The Gramscian Moment

Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism

Peter D. Thomas

 

http://brill.nl/product_id29354 

Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are today acknowledged as a classic of the human and social sciences in the twentieth century. The influence of his thought in numerous fields of scholarship is only exceeded by the diverse interpretations and readings to which it has been subjected, resulting in often contradictory 'images of Gramsci'. This book draws on the rich recent season of Gramscian philological studies in order to argue that the true significance of Gramsci's thought consists in its distinctive position in the development of the Marxist tradition. Providing a detailed reconsideration of Gramsci's theory of the state and concept of philosophy, The 'Gramscian moment' argues for the urgent necessity of taking up the challenge of developing a 'philosophy of praxis' as a vital element in the contemporary revitalisation of Marxism.