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The War Against Marxism: Reification and Revolution

Autor Tony McKenna
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2021
Marxism has provided the ideological impetus to liberation movements, radical struggles and revolutions across the world. But in the 20th century, the emancipatory and democratic power of its thought has often been distorted and overridden by various Stalinist dictatorships which claimed to be acting in its name. A similar undermining of freedom of thought has been accomplished at an intellectual level; various schools have transformed Marxist thought in line with some of the most fashionable but gentrified forms of contemporary philosophy, shifting the focus from the democratic power of the masses and their ability to challenge the capitalist order to concentrate on superstar thinkers and elite theories.The War Against Marxism traces the war against Marxism which, paradoxically, has been conducted in the name of Marxism itself. As such it provides a fiery philosophical and polemical indictment of so-called 'Marxists' such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Althusser, Jameson, Eagleton, Mouffe, Laclau and Zizek and asks what can be done to stem this counterrevolution.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350201415
ISBN-10: 1350201413
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers a radical re-reading of many key philosophers in the history of the disciplines including Adorno, Horkheimer, Althusser, Jameson, Eagleton, Mouffe, Laclau and Zizek

Notă biografică

Tony McKenna is a journalist and cultural commentator who writes regularly for Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post, ABC Australia, TRT World, New Statesman, The United Nations, New Internationalist, The Progressive, and Adbusters. He is author of Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art (2020), Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives: A Marxist Analysis of Key Political and Historical Figures (2019), Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective (2015)

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Why the Founding Fathers of the Frankfurt School should be considered anti-Marxist2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles: A study of capitalist reification and the possibility of its overcoming 3. Against post-Marxism: How post-Marxism annuls class-based historicism and the possibility of revolutionary praxis4. Reification and its consequences for modern life 5. Literary Theory and the loss of the historical totality6. Stephen King's IT and the proletariat as identical subject-object of the historical process7. The retreat from class: The theoretical fundaments of Moishe Postone's critique of Lukács 8. Revolution and counterrevolution in thoughtNotesIndex

Recenzii

This is a beautiful polemic against the Frankfurt School , Critical Theory and many of the most prominent left academics. It is hard hitting and a good antidote to people getting sucked into anti-Marxism via "Marxism" ... This book is an excellent weapon in the fight against the ideological counterrevolution and the re-establishment of Marxism!
Tony McKenna delivers a vibrant collection of essays on an astonishingly wide variety of topics, from Critical Theory to pop culture, dissecting with sometimes fierce but always insightful polemics the output of figures as different as Louis Althusser and Stephen King. Enlightening and entertaining in equal measure, Mckenna's book is a vigorous and strikingly original defense and revitalization of Marxism as a project of popular empowerment and social transformation.
Tony McKenna is one of the most erudite but readable authors in contemporary social theory and has a proven track record of producing off-piste but relevant analyses of enduring products of popular culture. This volume consolidates his status as a refreshing voice of both theoretical sophistication and contemporary relevance for our increasingly crisis-torn century.
This is a book for anyone who's wondered how the unwavering commitment to human freedom in Marx became the slick repartee of postmodern Marxists. It's a book for people who've come to suspect that the reactionary utterances of some popular, left-wing intellectuals might be tied to the deeper fundamentalism of their initiatives. Prepare to have your idols tested.
[McKenna] carefully examines the texts of self-purported Marxists and shows in a razor-sharp analysis how the war against Marx's methodology has been ragging in academia for almost a century now.
This book is refreshing and long overdue.