Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle

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Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle

"This is a passionately engaged work that dramatizes the radical stakes of Marxâ€™s and Laruelleâ€™s projects while drawing creatively on the work of Butler, Firestone, and Haraway along the way. It is at once the best possible introduction to Laruelleâ€™s appropriation of Marx and a Marxian radicalization of Laruelleâ€™s â€˜non-standard philosophy'." ~Ray Brassier "Katerina Kolozova delivers the first accurate and comprehensive study of my interpretation of Marx in my book Introduction to Non-Marxism, and more generally, of contemporary Marxism. ... In vigorous fashion, Kolozova re-awakens Marxism and rescues it from its torpor." ~ Francois Laruelle Departing from the conventional readings of Karl Marxâ€™s Capital and other of his works, by way of FranÃ§ois Laruelleâ€™s â€œradicalization of concepts,â€ Katerina Kolozova identifies a theoretical kernel in Marxâ€™s thought whose critical and interpretative force can be employed without reference to its subsequent interpretations in the philosophical mainstream. The latter entails a process of abstracting a philosophical legacy â€” or rather, of putting it in brackets â€” and then codifying a history of a learned interpretation established in supposed fidelity to the theoretical project of a â€œmaster.â€ Interpreting the master implies a mastery of doctrinal tools, which results in establishing a catechism of the Logos of the Master. And this catechism interferes, Kolozova argues, with more direct encounters with Marxâ€™s writings. As we know, Marxâ€™s rigorously descriptive language unravels the radical core of capitalist economic processes and, through that unraveling, also reveals capitalismâ€™s necessary exploitation and subjugation of human labor. Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism attempts to recuperate and emancipate the notion of metaphysics in this scenario by virtue of radicalizing thoughtâ€™s encounter with the Real. Kolozova argues that this metaphysical drama is at the origin of the social and economic injustices of contemporary global economic-political realities, and she illustrates this state of affairs in discussions of the problem of wage labor, automated speculation as the core of late capitalism, the post-2008 financial crisis, the status of technology in late capitalism, sexual difference and gender, and the human and non-human bodyâ€™s subjugation capitalist automation. TABLE OF CONTENTS // Chap. 1: Introduction â€” Chap. 2: The Possibility of Immanent Revolt as Theory and Political Praxis â€” Chap. 3: Metaphysics of the Finance Economy â€” Chap. 4: The Metaphysics of Capitalism and the Socialist Response â€” Chap. 5: Technology, the Body and the Materialist Determination in the Last Instance of the Communist Society of Cyborgs

Country	USA
Author	Katerina Kolozova
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780692492413
ISBN	0692492410
Label	Punctum Books
Manufacturer	Punctum Books
MPN	black & white illustrations
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	120
PartNumber	black & white illustrations
PublicationDate	2015-08-24
Publisher	Punctum Books
Studio	Punctum Books
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Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle

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