(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy

241 Pages·2014·2.23 MB·English

by  Jernej Habjan

(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy
Also by Jessica Whyte
CATASTROPHE AND REDEMPTION: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben
(2013)
THE AGAMBEN DICTIONARY ( edited with Alex Murray , 2011)
(Mis)readings of Marx in
Continental Philosophy
Edited by
Jernej Habjan
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia
and
Jessica Whyte
University of Western Sydney, Australia
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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Jernej Habjan and Jessica Whyte
1 A Historical Materialism with Romantic Splinters:
Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx 1 9
Michael Löwy
2 A dorno’s Account of the Anthropological Crisis and the
New Type of Human 3 4
Massimiliano Tomba
3 T he Republican and the Communist: Arendt Reading Marx
(Reading Arendt) 5 1
Charles Barbour
4 R icardo – Marx // Foucault – Althusser 6 7
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Rastko Mo nik
5 F oucault against Marxism: Althusser beyond Althusser 8 3
Mark G. E. Kelly
6 D eleuze and Guattari and Minor Marxism 9 9
Eugene W. Holland
7 T he Grundrisse beyond Capital ? Negri’s Marx and the
Problem of Value 1 11
Dave Eden
8 T he Eighteenth Brumaire of Jacques Derrida 128
Jernej Habjan
9 T he Visibility of Politics: Jacques Rancière’s
Challenge to Marxism 1 45
Tim Fisken
10 ‘ I, Ideology, Speak.’ Elements of Žižek’s Ideological
Prosopopoeia 1 62
Simon Hajdini
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11 ‘ Man Produces Universally’: Praxis and Production in
Agamben and Marx 1 78
Jessica Whyte
12 T he Discreet Charm of Bruno Latour 195
Benjamin Noys
13 T he Fate of the Generic: Marx with Badiou 211
Bruno Bosteels
Index 2 27
Notes on Contributors
Charles B arbour i s Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages
at the University of Western Sydney. Along with T he Marx Machine:
Politics, Polemics, Ideology (2012), he has had articles published in such
journals as Journal of Classical Sociology, Law, Culture and Humanities ,
Philosophy & Social Criticism, T elos and T heory, Culture & Society. He has
also co-edited, with George Pavlich, the collection A fter Sovereignty
(2009).
Bruno Bosteels i s Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University
and a major translator of Alain Badiou in English. He is the author of
Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique (2009), Badiou and Politics (2011),
The Actuality of Communism (2011), M arx and Freud in Latin America
(2012) and After Borges: Literature and Antiphilosophy (forthcoming). He
has translated several books by Alain Badiou and served as general editor
of Diacritics .
Dave Eden works as a sessional tutor and research assistant at the
School of Political Science and International Relations at the University
of Queensland and a sessional lecturer at the School of Humanities at
Griffith University. He is the author of A utonomy: Capital, Class and
Politics (2012). He is a participant in the Assembly for Dignity, the Red
Thread Study Circle and the Brisbane Workers Assembly.
Tim F isken r eceived his PhD in Political Science from the University of
California–Berkeley in 2012 and currently works in the International
Development Department at the University of Birmingham. He has
published articles in Critical Sense and Studies in Marxism and contributed
to the collection Further Adventures of ‘The Dialectic of Sex’ (2010). He is
currently finishing a book titled A ustere Politics: Contemporary Political
Theory and Marx’s Critique of Politics .
Jernej Habjan i s a research fellow at the literary institute of the Research
Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was Postdoctoral
Researcher in the DFG research group ‘Globalization and Literature’ at
LMU Munich. He has published articles in (a): The Journal of Culture
and the Unconscious , C LCWeb , F ilozofski vestnik, P roblemi and Primerjalna
književnost . In Slovenia, he is on the editorial boards of the journal B orec
and of the academic publishers Sophia and Studia humanitatis.
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Simon Hajdini has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Ljubljana,
where he holds a postdoctoral position. He is the main Slovenian trans-
lator of Freud and Žižek and a member of the editorial board and a
regular contributor to P roblemi , the journal of the Ljubljana school of
psychoanalysis. His book on the concept of residuality in psychoanal-
ysis, German idealism, historical materialism and contemporary conti-
nental philosophy has been published in the book series of the journal
Problemi .
Eugene W. H olland is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State
University. He is the author of B audelaire and S chizoanalysis (1993),
Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘Anti-Oedipus’ (1999), Nomad Citizenship (2011) and
Deleuze and G uattari’s ‘A Thousand Plateaus’ (2013) and a contributor to
Angelaki , boundary 2 , Cultural Logic , Culture, Theory and Critique, L’Esprit
Créateur , October , Postmodern Culture , S AQ , Strategies and SubStance .
Mark G. E. Kelly i s Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University.
He was previously Lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University and
at Middlesex University. He is the author of T he Political Philosophy of
Michel Foucault (2009), Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume 1
(2013) and Foucault and Politics (forthcoming). He has published arti-
cles in C ontretemps , C omparative L abor Law & Policy Journal, T heoria and
Thesis Eleven .
Michael Löwy is Emeritus Research Director in Social Sciences at the
CNRS and Lecturer at EHESS. His widely translated books include T he
Marxism of Che Guevara (1973), G eorg Lukács (1979), T he Politics of
Combined and Uneven Development (1981), Redemption and Utopia (1992),
Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia (2000)
and Fire Alarm (2005).
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Rastko M o nik is Professor of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana.
He was a co-founder of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis. He has
contributed to T he Althusserian Legacy (1993), Ghostly Demarcations
(1999), B alkan as Metaphor (2002), Conflict, Power, and the Landscape of
Constitutionalism (2008) and Encountering Althusser (2012), as well as to
Cultural Critique , Eurozine , R ue Descartes and Transeuropéennes .
Benjamin Noys i s Reader in English at the University of Chichester.
He is the author of G eorges Bataille (2000), T he Culture of Death (2005),
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Theory (2010)
and Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (2014). He has
also published in A narchist Studies , Angelaki , Film-Philosophy , Historical
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Materialism , Journal of European Studies, Mute , Theory, Culture & Society
and Third Text .
Massimiliano T omba i s Professor of Political Philosophy at the
University of Padua. He is the author of M arx’s Temporalities (2012), La
‘vera politica’: Kant e Benjamin (2006) and K rise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer
(2005) and has contributed to Actuel Marx, H istorical Materialism, C apital
& Class , SAQ , The New Hegelians (2006), Re-reading Marx (2009) and I n
Marx’s Laboratory (2013).
Jessica Whyte is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at the
University of Western Sydney, Australia. She has published widely on
contemporary continental philosophy (Agamben, Foucault, Rancière),
theories of sovereignty and biopolitics, critical legal theory and critiques
of human rights. Her book, C atastrophe and Redemption: The Political
Thought of Giorgio Agamben , was published in 2013.