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Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx
Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
October 18th 2011
by Columbia University Press
(first published October 6th 2011)
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Hip book to read. totally glosses over some really problematic things with postmodernism (like the descention into anomic normlessness that it has brought western civilization) but, then again, its a trendy book - not really much more than a 'whoa, what a cool sounding juxtaposition' and 'by the way, the quote about Marx saying philosophers have merely interpreted the world, the point is to change it, is not a rebuking of hermeneutics, but (by some pretzel logic) - a vindication of hermeneutics!...more
Not necessarily new –if you’re familiar with post-foundational political theory– but an interesting and worthy addition.
I would have liked a bit more engagement with Badiou’s conception of truth—particularly the founding axiom: all are equal—and how they relates to their notion of communism (which is loosely sketched out in this book).
The ideas reminded me a little of
Marchart’s Post-Foundational Political Thought
In which he describes post-foundational positions not as anti-foundational relativis...more
I would have liked a bit more engagement with Badiou’s conception of truth—particularly the founding axiom: all are equal—and how they relates to their notion of communism (which is loosely sketched out in this book).
The ideas reminded me a little of
Marchart’s Post-Foundational Political Thought
In which he describes post-foundational positions not as anti-foundational relativis...more
Pretty good in certain ways. There is a bit of the post-Marxist tendency to "foundationalize" anti-foundationalism through subtle insertions of concepts from the margins in order to stabilize the positive value of "interpretation" against "truth" - the dialectic upon which the general argument of this essay is based. So in this sense it does not fall so far away from Negri's aim at restructuring all agonist struggles into one fundamental antagonism - between "transcendence" and "immanence". Howe...more
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So tasty for explanations of the progression of communism. Seriously, sometimes I underestimate CUI's library.
Bold and thought-provoking attempt at reconciling two apparently orthogonal currents of thought.
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Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936) is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.
His philosophy can be characterized as postmodern with his emphasis on "pensiero debole" (weak thought). This requires that the foundational certainties of modernity with its emphasis on objective...more
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His philosophy can be characterized as postmodern with his emphasis on "pensiero debole" (weak thought). This requires that the foundational certainties of modernity with its emphasis on objective...more
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