The production of subjectivity : Marx and philosophy. / by Jason Read.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Read, Jason, author.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 256.

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 256

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Marxist.

Philosophy, Modern.

Subjectivity.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction animate and inform philosophers from Theodor Adorno to Paolo Virno. While also examining the way in which reading Marx casts new light on such philosophers as Spinoza. At the centre of this transformation is the production of subjectivity, the manner in which relations of production produces ways of thinking and living.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Becoming Contingent: Philosophy, Violence, History

1 Primitive Accumulation: The Aleatory Foundation of Capitalism

2 The Present as Pre-History: Adorno and Balibar on the Transformation of Labor

3 The Althusser Effect: Philosophy, History, and Temporality

4 To Think the New in the Absence of its Conditions: Althusser and Negri on the Philosophy of Primitive Accumulation

Part 2 Putting the Capitalism Back into Capitalism and Schizophrenia: On Deleuze and Guattari

5 A Universal History of Contingency: Deleuze and Guattari on the History of Capitalism

6 The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Political Logic of Contemporary Capitalism

7 The Fetish is Always Actual, Revolution is Always Virtual: Marx and Deleuze

8 The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari

9 Beyond Enslavement and Subjection: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari

Part 3 Between Marx and Spinoza: Philosophy and Ideology

10 The Potentia of Living Labour: Negri’s Practice of Philosophy

11 The Order and Connection of Ideas: Theoretical Practice in Macherey’s Turn to Spinoza

12 Desire is Man’s Very Essence: Spinoza and Hegel as Philosophers of Transindividuality

13 The Order and Connection of Ideology is the Same as the Order and Connection of Exploitation: Or, Towards a Bestiary of the Capitalist Imagination

14 Conscienta Sive Ideologica: On the Spontaneity of Ideology

Part 4 Returns of Philosophical Anthropology: New Subjections/New Transformations

15 A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Production of Subjectivity

16 Abstract Materialism: Alfred Sohn-Rethel and the Task of Materialist Philosophy

17 The Production of Subjectivity: From Transindividuality to the Commons

18 Man is a Werewolf to Man: Capital and the Limits of Political Anthropology

19 The ‘Other Scene’ of Political Anthropology: Between Transindividuality and Equaliberty

20 Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This book examines why Marxist philosophy will continue to be a central point of reference well beyond postmodernism and the Anthropocene.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Read, Jason The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy

ISBN:

9789004515277

OCLC:

1311342830

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004515277 DOI