The crisis of Marxism : a historical-intellectual problem
In this book, Elías J. Palti analyzes the writings of key thinkers who have theorized the present situation of Marxism: Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, Alain Badiou, and Jacques Derrida. His aim is to interrogate what appears to be the final crisis of...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2025.
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| Edition | First edition. |
| Series | Marx and Marxisms : new horizons
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781003586630 1003586635 9781040356203 1040356206 9781040356265 1040356265 9781032958088 9781032958095 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (172 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the English Edition. Prologue. Introduction: Crisis of Ideas and Ideas of Crisis: Marxism as a Laboratory. PART I: Marxism's Truth and Knowledge in the "Short 20th Century" 1. Knowledge without Truth: (Perry Anderson and Fredric Jameson: Marxism and Postmodernism) 2. Trotskyism as the Implicit Truth of Marxism: Nahuel Moreno: History, Contingency, and Tragic Sense PART II: Marxism in the Post-Tragic Scene 3. Truth as a Postulate: Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek: The Real and the Imaginary of Marxism 4. Truth as Promise: Jacques Derrida and His Specters 5. Truth as a Bet: Alain Badiou and the "Experience of the Disaster" Epilogue: The Quest for the Politics of Our Time