Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle

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
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Country	USA
Brand	Punctum Books
Manufacturer	Punctum Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780692492413
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle

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