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Marx for Our Time* V Marx for Our Times Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique ♦ --------------- DANIEL BENSAID Translated by Gregory Elliott V VERSO London • New York This book is supported by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs as part of the Burgess Programme, headed for the French Embassy in London by the Institut Franfais du Royaume Uni. RtPUDLIQUE FRANCAISE This edition first published by Verso 2002 © Verso 2002 This paperback edition first published by Verso 2009 © Verso 2009 Translation © Gregory Elliott 2002 First published as Al^rx I'intempestif © Libraire Artheme Fayard 1995 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F OEG USA: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 www.versobooks.com Verso is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN 978-1-84467-378-0 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Typset in 10/12pt Baskerville by SetSystems Ltd, Saffron Walden, Essex Printed by Lightning Source International For Hippolyte Contents Preface to the English Edition: The Archipelago of a Thousand Marxisms ix The Inaudible Thunder 1 Part I - From the Sacred to the Profane: Marx’s Critique of Historical Reason 7 1 A New Way of Wridng History 9 2 Time Out of Joint (On Analytical Marxism) 40 3 A New Appreciation of Time 69 Pan II - Struggle and Necessity: Marx’s Critique of Sociological Reason 95 4 Classes, or The Lost Subject 97 5 Class Struggle is No Game (Marx contra Game Theory and Theories of Justice) 122 6 Whatever Happened to Class? 163 Part III - The Order of Disorder: Marx’s Critique of Scientific Positivism 201 7 Doing Science Differendy 203 8 A New Immanence 239 9 The Distress of Historical Logic 261 viii CONTENTS 10 Choreographies of Chaos 288 11 The Torment of Matter (Contribution to the Critique of Political Ecology) 312 Bibliography 361 Index 375

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The end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history’s refusal to grind to a halt and the global credit crisis that began in 2008 have rekindled interest in capitalism’s most persistent critic.Written during the mid-nineties, a
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Marx for Our Time* V Marx for Our Times Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique ♦ --------------- DANIEL BENSAID Translated by Gregory Elliott V VERSO London • New York This book is supported by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs as part of the Burgess Programme, headed for the French Embassy in London by the Institut Franfais du Royaume Uni. RtPUDLIQUE FRANCAISE This edition first published by Verso 2002 © Verso 2002 This paperback edition first published by Verso 2009 © Verso 2009 Translation © Gregory Elliott 2002 First published as Al^rx I'intempestif © Libraire Artheme Fayard 1995 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F OEG USA: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 www.versobooks.com Verso is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN 978-1-84467-378-0 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Typset in 10/12pt Baskerville by SetSystems Ltd, Saffron Walden, Essex Printed by Lightning Source International For Hippolyte Contents Preface to the English Edition: The Archipelago of a Thousand Marxisms ix The Inaudible Thunder 1 Part I - From the Sacred to the Profane: Marx’s Critique of Historical Reason 7 1 A New Way of Wridng History 9 2 Time Out of Joint (On Analytical Marxism) 40 3 A New Appreciation of Time 69 Pan II - Struggle and Necessity: Marx’s Critique of Sociological Reason 95 4 Classes, or The Lost Subject 97 5 Class Struggle is No Game (Marx contra Game Theory and Theories of Justice) 122 6 Whatever Happened to Class? 163 Part III - The Order of Disorder: Marx’s Critique of Scientific Positivism 201 7 Doing Science Differendy 203 8 A New Immanence 239 9 The Distress of Historical Logic 261 viii CONTENTS 10 Choreographies of Chaos 288 11 The Torment of Matter (Contribution to the Critique of Political Ecology) 312 Bibliography 361 Index 375

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The end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history’s refusal to grind to a halt and the global credit crisis that began in 2008 have rekindled interest in capitalism’s most persistent critic.Written during the mid-nineties, a
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