Ted Stolze
Biographical Note
Readership
Anyone interested in the intersection of Marxism and philosophy and in a distinctively Marxist approach to the history of philosophy.
Table of Contents
Prefatory Note Acknowledgements Abbreviations
Part 1 Marxism and the History of Philosophy
1 What is a Philosophical Tendency?
2 Paul of Tarsus, Thinker of the Conjuncture
3 Paul’s Gift Economy: Wages, Debt, and Debt Cancellation
4 Althusser and the Problem of Historical Individuality
5 ‘The Roaring of the Sea’: Hobbes on the Madness of the Multitude
6 Spinoza’s Three Modes of Rebellion: Indignant, Glorious, and Serene
7 Alexandre Matheron on Militant Reason and the Intellectual Love of God
Interlude: An Ethics for Marxism: Spinoza on Fortitude
Part 2 Marxism and Contemporary Philosophy
8 Death and Life in Marx’s Capital: An Ethical Investigation
9 Hegel or Spinoza: Substance, Subject, and Critical Marxism
10 Contradictions of Hyperreality: Baudrillard, Žižek, and Virtual Dialectics
11 A Marxist Encounter with the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
12 Deleuze and Althusser: Flirting with Structuralism
13 Marxist Wisdom: Antonio Negri on the Book of Job
14 A Displaced Transition: Jürgen Habermas on the Public Sphere
Part 3 Self-Emancipation, Then and Now
15 Self-Emancipation and Political Marxism
16 Islamophobia and Self-Emancipation
17 Climate Crisis, Ideology, and Collective Action
Coda. Beatitude: Marx, Aristotle, Averroes, Spinoza
Bibliography Index