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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Main Author Palti, Elías José (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
EditionFirst edition.
SeriesMarx and Marxisms : new horizons
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781003586630
1003586635
9781040356203
1040356206
9781040356265
1040356265
9781032958088
9781032958095
Physical Description1 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