Philosophy after Marx : 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy
Series
Historical Materialism Book Series
ISBN
978-90-04-22427-8
Type
book
Date Issued
2014
Author(s)
Abstract
Christoph Henning writes a concise history of misreadings of Marx in the 20th century. Focussing on German philosophy from Heidegger to Habermas, he also addresses the influence of Rawls and Neopragmatism, subsequently scrutinizing a previous history of Marx-interpretations that had served as the premises upon which these later works were based. Henning sketches a historical trajectory in which a theory of socialist politics enters the fields of economics, sociology, critical theory and theology, before finally - overloaded with intellectually dead freight - entering into philosophy. In so doing, he takes a hermeneutic approach to how misreadings in a specific field proliferate into further misreadings across a variety of fields, leading to an accumulation of questionable preconceptions. With the recent resurgence of interest in Marx, Henning's historical recursions make evident where and how academic Anti-Marxism had previously got it wrong.
Language
English
Keywords
20th century philosophy
Critical Theory
Marxism
Critical Sociology
History of Economic Thought
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
No
Publisher
Brill
Publisher place
Leiden
Volume
1. Auflage
Number
65
Start page
660
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
231312