Ernest Nicholson (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263051
- eISBN:
- 9780191734090
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263051.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
The chapters in this book give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the twentieth century – by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, ...
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The chapters in this book give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the twentieth century – by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, followed by social and academic upheavals in the 1960s), by new movements of thought, by a bounty of archaeological discoveries, and by unprecedented archival research. Further new trends of study and fresh approaches (existentialist, Marxian, postmodern) have in more recent years generated new quests and horizons for reflection and research. Theological enquiry in Great Britain was transformed in the late nineteenth century through the gradual acceptance of the methods and results of historical criticism. New agendas emerged in the various sub-disciplines of theology and religious studies. Some of the issues raised by biblical criticism, for example Christology and the ‘quest of the historical Jesus’, were to remain topics of controversy throughout the twentieth century. In other important and far-reaching ways, however, the agendas that seemed clear in the early part of the century were abandoned, or transformed and replaced, not only as a result of new discoveries and movements of thought, but also by the unfolding events of a century that brought the appalling carnage and horror of two world wars. Their aftermath brought a shattering of inherited world views, including religious world views, and disillusion with the optimistic trust in inevitable progress that had seemed assured in many quarters and found expression in widely influential ‘liberal’ theological thought of the time. The centenary of the British Academy in 2002 has provided a most welcome opportunity for reconsidering the contribution of British scholarship to theological and religious studies in the last hundred years.Less
The chapters in this book give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the twentieth century – by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, followed by social and academic upheavals in the 1960s), by new movements of thought, by a bounty of archaeological discoveries, and by unprecedented archival research. Further new trends of study and fresh approaches (existentialist, Marxian, postmodern) have in more recent years generated new quests and horizons for reflection and research. Theological enquiry in Great Britain was transformed in the late nineteenth century through the gradual acceptance of the methods and results of historical criticism. New agendas emerged in the various sub-disciplines of theology and religious studies. Some of the issues raised by biblical criticism, for example Christology and the ‘quest of the historical Jesus’, were to remain topics of controversy throughout the twentieth century. In other important and far-reaching ways, however, the agendas that seemed clear in the early part of the century were abandoned, or transformed and replaced, not only as a result of new discoveries and movements of thought, but also by the unfolding events of a century that brought the appalling carnage and horror of two world wars. Their aftermath brought a shattering of inherited world views, including religious world views, and disillusion with the optimistic trust in inevitable progress that had seemed assured in many quarters and found expression in widely influential ‘liberal’ theological thought of the time. The centenary of the British Academy in 2002 has provided a most welcome opportunity for reconsidering the contribution of British scholarship to theological and religious studies in the last hundred years.
Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198278702
- eISBN:
- 9780191684241
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198278702.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter concludes that the decline and collapse of the French Communist Party (PCF) may be traced back to the intra-party dispute of 1978–9. However, it acknowledges the limitations of using ...
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This chapter concludes that the decline and collapse of the French Communist Party (PCF) may be traced back to the intra-party dispute of 1978–9. However, it acknowledges the limitations of using internal institutional dynamics to account for the source of intellectual alienation from the PCF. To address these limitations, it explores other possible explanations for the intellectual disaffiliation from the PCF, including the situation of the international communist movement and the significance of the communist intellectuals' experience. It does not rule out the possible re-emergence of the PCF, but should this happen it will have nothing to do with the Marxian vision that once dominated the French intellectual horizon.Less
This chapter concludes that the decline and collapse of the French Communist Party (PCF) may be traced back to the intra-party dispute of 1978–9. However, it acknowledges the limitations of using internal institutional dynamics to account for the source of intellectual alienation from the PCF. To address these limitations, it explores other possible explanations for the intellectual disaffiliation from the PCF, including the situation of the international communist movement and the significance of the communist intellectuals' experience. It does not rule out the possible re-emergence of the PCF, but should this happen it will have nothing to do with the Marxian vision that once dominated the French intellectual horizon.
Alan Ryan
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691148403
- eISBN:
- 9781400841950
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691148403.003.0024
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter examines John Dewey's liberalism, arguing that his social and political theory expressed the self-understanding of modern society—“modern” being no more precise in its denotation than ...
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This chapter examines John Dewey's liberalism, arguing that his social and political theory expressed the self-understanding of modern society—“modern” being no more precise in its denotation than “postmodernist,” but certainly meaning at different times both the society that lived off and built on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century and the society that came into existence with the capitalist Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After expounding on Dewey's views on the demands of modernity, the chapter considers his belief in the need for industrial democracy as a complement to political democracy. It also discusses postmodernist bourgeois liberalism, Dewey's views on idealism and naturalism, his Democracy and Education and its references to freedom and equality, and the impact of World War I on Dewey's poise. Finally, it describes Dewey's non-Marxian radicalism and argues that Dewey was a philosopher rather than a political activist.Less
This chapter examines John Dewey's liberalism, arguing that his social and political theory expressed the self-understanding of modern society—“modern” being no more precise in its denotation than “postmodernist,” but certainly meaning at different times both the society that lived off and built on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century and the society that came into existence with the capitalist Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After expounding on Dewey's views on the demands of modernity, the chapter considers his belief in the need for industrial democracy as a complement to political democracy. It also discusses postmodernist bourgeois liberalism, Dewey's views on idealism and naturalism, his Democracy and Education and its references to freedom and equality, and the impact of World War I on Dewey's poise. Finally, it describes Dewey's non-Marxian radicalism and argues that Dewey was a philosopher rather than a political activist.
Anthony P. Maingot
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061061
- eISBN:
- 9780813051345
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061061.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Race, Ideology and the Decline of Caribbeanx Marxism approaches the Caribbean from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. Its primary focus throughout is on the complex counterpoint between ...
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Race, Ideology and the Decline of Caribbeanx Marxism approaches the Caribbean from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. Its primary focus throughout is on the complex counterpoint between race and ideology in the region. The initial theoretical prologue introduces and explains the concept of “modern-conservative” societies, drawing on a balance of Marxian radical and Burkean conservative ideas. The chapters that follow represent some of the fundamental debates in Caribbean studies including topics such as Caribbean historical fundamentals, slave laws and subsequent race relations, and U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico—each of which is dealt comparatively by treating the works of six celebrated Caribbean intellectual-polticians. The role of race and revolution in Haiti is analyzed from both historical and comtemporary perspectives. The book ends with chapters that describe, first, a model small state, Barbados, which has steadfastly stuck to its inherited British parliamentary institutions and practices, and, second, Cuba, a state struggling to overcome five decades of economic underdevelopment. A brief conclusion calls attention to the two major challenges facing all the states in the region: the onslaught of drug-related crime, threats emanating from organized crime, and the continual deficit in energy resources.Less
Race, Ideology and the Decline of Caribbeanx Marxism approaches the Caribbean from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. Its primary focus throughout is on the complex counterpoint between race and ideology in the region. The initial theoretical prologue introduces and explains the concept of “modern-conservative” societies, drawing on a balance of Marxian radical and Burkean conservative ideas. The chapters that follow represent some of the fundamental debates in Caribbean studies including topics such as Caribbean historical fundamentals, slave laws and subsequent race relations, and U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico—each of which is dealt comparatively by treating the works of six celebrated Caribbean intellectual-polticians. The role of race and revolution in Haiti is analyzed from both historical and comtemporary perspectives. The book ends with chapters that describe, first, a model small state, Barbados, which has steadfastly stuck to its inherited British parliamentary institutions and practices, and, second, Cuba, a state struggling to overcome five decades of economic underdevelopment. A brief conclusion calls attention to the two major challenges facing all the states in the region: the onslaught of drug-related crime, threats emanating from organized crime, and the continual deficit in energy resources.
Kian Tajbakhsh
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222779
- eISBN:
- 9780520924642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222779.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter focuses on the issues of urban identity, essentialism, and Marxian class analysis. It shows that the notion of identity is best viewed primarily as hybrid, overlapping, and undecidable ...
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This chapter focuses on the issues of urban identity, essentialism, and Marxian class analysis. It shows that the notion of identity is best viewed primarily as hybrid, overlapping, and undecidable and explains that the notion of hybrid identities offers a more compelling alternative to the liberal, communitarian, or Marxian perspectives on the possibilities of the liberating power of identity in the city. It considers the work of Manuel Castells as successive attempts to develop a non-essentialist or nonreductive account of urban identity or urban agency and traces the effect of essentialist assumptions on his attempt to escape the class reductive aspects of Marxian theory.Less
This chapter focuses on the issues of urban identity, essentialism, and Marxian class analysis. It shows that the notion of identity is best viewed primarily as hybrid, overlapping, and undecidable and explains that the notion of hybrid identities offers a more compelling alternative to the liberal, communitarian, or Marxian perspectives on the possibilities of the liberating power of identity in the city. It considers the work of Manuel Castells as successive attempts to develop a non-essentialist or nonreductive account of urban identity or urban agency and traces the effect of essentialist assumptions on his attempt to escape the class reductive aspects of Marxian theory.
Roman Szporluk
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195051032
- eISBN:
- 9780199854417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195051032.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The “List Critique” is the most explicit work Karl Marx wrote on nationalism. This work actually remained unknown until it appeared in a Soviet historical journal in 1971, long after he died. ...
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The “List Critique” is the most explicit work Karl Marx wrote on nationalism. This work actually remained unknown until it appeared in a Soviet historical journal in 1971, long after he died. Conventional Marxian scholarship has tackled Marx's stand on nation and nationalism, however problems still remain despite its wide acceptance. In Marx's view, modern society consisted of two classes: the capitalists and the industrial workers. The theories and practices plus the Industrial Revolution all added to one process and that was the rise of capitalism. Meanwhile, the doctrine of the list was a contrast to everything that was taking place in society. The list called for the unification of all classes of a nation against other nations. Friedrich Meinecke pointed out the wave of nationalism while Marxism postulated the formation of the proletariat as a force that transcended national identities. Thus, Marxism viewed nationalism as the enemy.Less
The “List Critique” is the most explicit work Karl Marx wrote on nationalism. This work actually remained unknown until it appeared in a Soviet historical journal in 1971, long after he died. Conventional Marxian scholarship has tackled Marx's stand on nation and nationalism, however problems still remain despite its wide acceptance. In Marx's view, modern society consisted of two classes: the capitalists and the industrial workers. The theories and practices plus the Industrial Revolution all added to one process and that was the rise of capitalism. Meanwhile, the doctrine of the list was a contrast to everything that was taking place in society. The list called for the unification of all classes of a nation against other nations. Friedrich Meinecke pointed out the wave of nationalism while Marxism postulated the formation of the proletariat as a force that transcended national identities. Thus, Marxism viewed nationalism as the enemy.
Roman Szporluk
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195051032
- eISBN:
- 9780199854417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195051032.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The chapter discusses Marx's views on competition when it came to Germany's future. Marx perceived nationalism as a bourgeois ideology. He thought that the “List Critique” served as a spokesman for ...
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The chapter discusses Marx's views on competition when it came to Germany's future. Marx perceived nationalism as a bourgeois ideology. He thought that the “List Critique” served as a spokesman for the German bourgeoisie. The “List Critique” provided a detailed elaboration of the Marxian position on the German Question by focusing specifically on German nationalism. The List represented the aim of the German bourgeois and that was to establish the domination of capitalism. It clearly shows how Marx was merciless in his assessment of the German bourgeoisie. He thought that nationalism was for the interest of the bourgeoisie and that “national liberation” stood in the way of the real one.Less
The chapter discusses Marx's views on competition when it came to Germany's future. Marx perceived nationalism as a bourgeois ideology. He thought that the “List Critique” served as a spokesman for the German bourgeoisie. The “List Critique” provided a detailed elaboration of the Marxian position on the German Question by focusing specifically on German nationalism. The List represented the aim of the German bourgeois and that was to establish the domination of capitalism. It clearly shows how Marx was merciless in his assessment of the German bourgeoisie. He thought that nationalism was for the interest of the bourgeoisie and that “national liberation” stood in the way of the real one.
ROBERT WALLER
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202387
- eISBN:
- 9780191675317
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202387.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Political History
This chapter discusses the causes of the pattern of voting in Britain that has proved so beneficial to the Conservative Party, focusing on the entangled issues of electoral support and social class. ...
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This chapter discusses the causes of the pattern of voting in Britain that has proved so beneficial to the Conservative Party, focusing on the entangled issues of electoral support and social class. It explains how the party has managed so consistently to secure the large number of working-class votes that it needs to be successful in a general election. The chapter conducts a survey on the 25 elections that have taken place since 1900 and challenges the Marxian equation of working-class identity with socialist or even labour political sympathies. It notes that, before 1914, religious denomination was the strongest single element to colour voting decisions, but that after the First World War and the extension of the franchise in 1918, occupational class came to the fore as the factor. The chapter provides a range of explanations for the continued loyalty of much of the working class to the Conservatives.Less
This chapter discusses the causes of the pattern of voting in Britain that has proved so beneficial to the Conservative Party, focusing on the entangled issues of electoral support and social class. It explains how the party has managed so consistently to secure the large number of working-class votes that it needs to be successful in a general election. The chapter conducts a survey on the 25 elections that have taken place since 1900 and challenges the Marxian equation of working-class identity with socialist or even labour political sympathies. It notes that, before 1914, religious denomination was the strongest single element to colour voting decisions, but that after the First World War and the extension of the franchise in 1918, occupational class came to the fore as the factor. The chapter provides a range of explanations for the continued loyalty of much of the working class to the Conservatives.
Eric R. Wolf
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520223332
- eISBN:
- 9780520924871
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520223332.003.0020
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
This chapter deals specifically with unresolved issues that emerged in studies of peasant societies worldwide by using a Marxian approach to clarify and specify the relevance of the concept of rent ...
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This chapter deals specifically with unresolved issues that emerged in studies of peasant societies worldwide by using a Marxian approach to clarify and specify the relevance of the concept of rent to an understanding of peasants. Peasant studies in American anthropology have taken two different approaches. This study focuses on an approach that departs from the study of the material, economic, and political processes at work in peasant life, and aims at constructing a political economy of peasantry. It discusses mechanisms linking cultivators to economy and polity, to market and state. Significant variations in the peasant condition could be accounted for by the different ways in which rent was assigned and transferred. Rent undergoes a change of function. Peasants—in exchange for their personal freedom and the right to private property—must pay taxes to the state.Less
This chapter deals specifically with unresolved issues that emerged in studies of peasant societies worldwide by using a Marxian approach to clarify and specify the relevance of the concept of rent to an understanding of peasants. Peasant studies in American anthropology have taken two different approaches. This study focuses on an approach that departs from the study of the material, economic, and political processes at work in peasant life, and aims at constructing a political economy of peasantry. It discusses mechanisms linking cultivators to economy and polity, to market and state. Significant variations in the peasant condition could be accounted for by the different ways in which rent was assigned and transferred. Rent undergoes a change of function. Peasants—in exchange for their personal freedom and the right to private property—must pay taxes to the state.
James L. Marsh
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823239825
- eISBN:
- 9780823239863
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239825.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter argues that self-appropriation, from below, can be fruitfully complimented by a prophetic Berriganian theology of liberation from above. Marsh’s formula to express this relationship is ...
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This chapter argues that self-appropriation, from below, can be fruitfully complimented by a prophetic Berriganian theology of liberation from above. Marsh’s formula to express this relationship is that intellectual, moral, and religious conversion should lead to radical political conversion. To further deepen and enrich the relationship between self-appropriation and liberation, Marxian social theory is used to understand and criticize capitalism, imperialism, and militarism. Marsh further stresses that the events of Catonsville can serve to bring into question an overly comfortable relationship of Catholic universities and Catholic academics to the secular city. In such accommodation, is the academic mission compromised? How freely and comprehensively can the desire to know operate when it is constrained by the goals and practices of empire?Less
This chapter argues that self-appropriation, from below, can be fruitfully complimented by a prophetic Berriganian theology of liberation from above. Marsh’s formula to express this relationship is that intellectual, moral, and religious conversion should lead to radical political conversion. To further deepen and enrich the relationship between self-appropriation and liberation, Marxian social theory is used to understand and criticize capitalism, imperialism, and militarism. Marsh further stresses that the events of Catonsville can serve to bring into question an overly comfortable relationship of Catholic universities and Catholic academics to the secular city. In such accommodation, is the academic mission compromised? How freely and comprehensively can the desire to know operate when it is constrained by the goals and practices of empire?
Susan Greenhalgh
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520253384
- eISBN:
- 9780520941267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520253384.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter introduces the Chinese Marxian statistics of population, which was formed by Liu Zheng. It discusses the senior generation of leaders who assumed power during the early post-Mao years ...
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This chapter introduces the Chinese Marxian statistics of population, which was formed by Liu Zheng. It discusses the senior generation of leaders who assumed power during the early post-Mao years and their views on the population question. Next, the chapter studies the rocky history of population studies during the Maoist years, and also outlines the making of the problem–solutions–costs construct.Less
This chapter introduces the Chinese Marxian statistics of population, which was formed by Liu Zheng. It discusses the senior generation of leaders who assumed power during the early post-Mao years and their views on the population question. Next, the chapter studies the rocky history of population studies during the Maoist years, and also outlines the making of the problem–solutions–costs construct.
Susan Greenhalgh
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520253384
- eISBN:
- 9780520941267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520253384.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter introduces Liang Zhongtang, one of the specialists who, during the late 1970s, voiced concern about what might happen if the one-child policy became political reality. The first part ...
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This chapter introduces Liang Zhongtang, one of the specialists who, during the late 1970s, voiced concern about what might happen if the one-child policy became political reality. The first part focuses on Liang's life story, tracing the imprint of Maoist politics on his intellectual training, professional location, and personal experiences. This is then followed by a study on the practices whereby he created a distinctive Marxian humanism of population. Finally, the chapter compares the three sciences of population, as well as the larger intellectual frameworks, political values, and visions of state–science–society interrelations that these embodied.Less
This chapter introduces Liang Zhongtang, one of the specialists who, during the late 1970s, voiced concern about what might happen if the one-child policy became political reality. The first part focuses on Liang's life story, tracing the imprint of Maoist politics on his intellectual training, professional location, and personal experiences. This is then followed by a study on the practices whereby he created a distinctive Marxian humanism of population. Finally, the chapter compares the three sciences of population, as well as the larger intellectual frameworks, political values, and visions of state–science–society interrelations that these embodied.
Kian Tajbakhsh
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222779
- eISBN:
- 9780520924642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222779.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about cities and city life. This volume specifically addresses the potential of cities to offer men and women the ability to ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about cities and city life. This volume specifically addresses the potential of cities to offer men and women the ability to comprehend and master the complex, multicultural realities of the modern world. It discusses the Marxian urban theory or Marxian urbanism and comments on the works of some of the most significant theorists of Marxian urban theory including Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. It also examines the inadequacies of the most important responses to the critique of class reductionism and proposes alternate ways of seeing identity, structure, and space that avoid these shortcomings.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about cities and city life. This volume specifically addresses the potential of cities to offer men and women the ability to comprehend and master the complex, multicultural realities of the modern world. It discusses the Marxian urban theory or Marxian urbanism and comments on the works of some of the most significant theorists of Marxian urban theory including Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. It also examines the inadequacies of the most important responses to the critique of class reductionism and proposes alternate ways of seeing identity, structure, and space that avoid these shortcomings.
Kian Tajbakhsh
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222779
- eISBN:
- 9780520924642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222779.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter examines the work of David Harvey concerning urban theory. It identifies the place that Harvey's reaffirmation of classical Marxism occupies within the discourse of Marxian urbanism and ...
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This chapter examines the work of David Harvey concerning urban theory. It identifies the place that Harvey's reaffirmation of classical Marxism occupies within the discourse of Marxian urbanism and analyzes Harvey's interpretation of urban conflict through his theory of urban-based movements as displaced class struggles. This chapter argues that by discounting the political and institutional salience of the distinction between workplace and residential community Harvey's model has two principal drawbacks. The chapter also considers Claus Offe's analysis of the two logics of collective action in the context of the problems of trade-union politics when faced with the expansion and differentiation of their traditional constituencies.Less
This chapter examines the work of David Harvey concerning urban theory. It identifies the place that Harvey's reaffirmation of classical Marxism occupies within the discourse of Marxian urbanism and analyzes Harvey's interpretation of urban conflict through his theory of urban-based movements as displaced class struggles. This chapter argues that by discounting the political and institutional salience of the distinction between workplace and residential community Harvey's model has two principal drawbacks. The chapter also considers Claus Offe's analysis of the two logics of collective action in the context of the problems of trade-union politics when faced with the expansion and differentiation of their traditional constituencies.
Kian Tajbakhsh
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222779
- eISBN:
- 9780520924642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222779.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter examines the work of Ira Katznelson in the context of a Marxian framework for the problems of identity, space, and structure. It explains that Katznelson's effort to develop a framework ...
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This chapter examines the work of Ira Katznelson in the context of a Marxian framework for the problems of identity, space, and structure. It explains that Katznelson's effort to develop a framework for Marxian urban theory took the specificity of the U.S. socio-political structure as a crucial ingredient for avoiding the pitfalls found in the work of Manuel Castells and David Harvey, and the most systematic and nuanced attempt to link class and space within the Marxian framework. It explores the history and place of Marxist and socialist discourse in American political culture and comments on the debates over the peculiarly limited nature of urban policy making in American cities and the relative absence of working-class-based urban movements and agendas.Less
This chapter examines the work of Ira Katznelson in the context of a Marxian framework for the problems of identity, space, and structure. It explains that Katznelson's effort to develop a framework for Marxian urban theory took the specificity of the U.S. socio-political structure as a crucial ingredient for avoiding the pitfalls found in the work of Manuel Castells and David Harvey, and the most systematic and nuanced attempt to link class and space within the Marxian framework. It explores the history and place of Marxist and socialist discourse in American political culture and comments on the debates over the peculiarly limited nature of urban policy making in American cities and the relative absence of working-class-based urban movements and agendas.
Joshua Kates
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229468
- eISBN:
- 9780823235209
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823229468.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
This book asks the question: How should we interpret Jacques Derrida's work now after so much commentary has been devoted to his thought, and his own astonishing productivity has come ...
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This book asks the question: How should we interpret Jacques Derrida's work now after so much commentary has been devoted to his thought, and his own astonishing productivity has come to an end? This book argues that we must begin from a different frame than Derrida himself provides, by inserting his work into already existing fields, by “fielding Derrida.” Is Derrida a skeptic? Does he subscribe to a death of meaning (and the “I”) at the hands of a sign? Is his thought at all proximate to contemporary Marxian/post-Marxist thinking? Thanks to placing Derrida's texts in broader fields (such as with Husserlian phenomenology and analytic philosophy of language) and subsequently nuancing what such comparisons yield, this book captures Derrida's stances on these and other questions with a new concreteness and scope, forging links to vital debates across the humanities.Less
This book asks the question: How should we interpret Jacques Derrida's work now after so much commentary has been devoted to his thought, and his own astonishing productivity has come to an end? This book argues that we must begin from a different frame than Derrida himself provides, by inserting his work into already existing fields, by “fielding Derrida.” Is Derrida a skeptic? Does he subscribe to a death of meaning (and the “I”) at the hands of a sign? Is his thought at all proximate to contemporary Marxian/post-Marxist thinking? Thanks to placing Derrida's texts in broader fields (such as with Husserlian phenomenology and analytic philosophy of language) and subsequently nuancing what such comparisons yield, this book captures Derrida's stances on these and other questions with a new concreteness and scope, forging links to vital debates across the humanities.
Maurizio Lazzarato
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748620920
- eISBN:
- 9780748652365
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748620920.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter focuses on Gilles Deleuze's view on the concepts on the life and in control societies. It explains that Deleuze has provided historical reconstruction of the passage of disciplinary ...
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This chapter focuses on Gilles Deleuze's view on the concepts on the life and in control societies. It explains that Deleuze has provided historical reconstruction of the passage of disciplinary societies to societies of control by setting out from the dynamics of difference and repetition, thereby generating new interpretations of the birth and development of capitalism. It discusses Marxian analysis of the capital-labour relation and highlights the usefulness of Deleuzian interpretation of Michel Foucault in analysing the dynamics of difference and repetition.Less
This chapter focuses on Gilles Deleuze's view on the concepts on the life and in control societies. It explains that Deleuze has provided historical reconstruction of the passage of disciplinary societies to societies of control by setting out from the dynamics of difference and repetition, thereby generating new interpretations of the birth and development of capitalism. It discusses Marxian analysis of the capital-labour relation and highlights the usefulness of Deleuzian interpretation of Michel Foucault in analysing the dynamics of difference and repetition.
Richard Taruskin
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520249790
- eISBN:
- 9780520942806
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520249790.003.0034
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter discusses the esthetics in Soviet operas, with particular emphasis on Kirill Molchanov's Zori zdes' tikhiye (The Dawns Are Quiet Here). The American première of The Dawns Are Quiet Here ...
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This chapter discusses the esthetics in Soviet operas, with particular emphasis on Kirill Molchanov's Zori zdes' tikhiye (The Dawns Are Quiet Here). The American première of The Dawns Are Quiet Here was held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in July 1975. The opera derives its inspiration from the “Great Patriotic War” of 1941–45, and the Tolstoyan roots of “socialist realist” esthetics can be observed in it. The precedents of social realist esthetics of Soviet art and literature can be found in the late esthetic tracts of Leo Tolstoy, particularly in his insistence upon the preeminence of moral import as a criterion of esthetic worth. All art, Tolstoy asserted, must contain the Good and the Important. If these are present, a given work is “moral” and satisfies one of Tolstoy's three criteria for consideration as art, the other two being intelligibility and sincerity. The chapter argues that the socialist realist esthetics was not rooted in the Marxian esthetics, and discusses the impact of socialist realist esthetics in Molchanov's opera.Less
This chapter discusses the esthetics in Soviet operas, with particular emphasis on Kirill Molchanov's Zori zdes' tikhiye (The Dawns Are Quiet Here). The American première of The Dawns Are Quiet Here was held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in July 1975. The opera derives its inspiration from the “Great Patriotic War” of 1941–45, and the Tolstoyan roots of “socialist realist” esthetics can be observed in it. The precedents of social realist esthetics of Soviet art and literature can be found in the late esthetic tracts of Leo Tolstoy, particularly in his insistence upon the preeminence of moral import as a criterion of esthetic worth. All art, Tolstoy asserted, must contain the Good and the Important. If these are present, a given work is “moral” and satisfies one of Tolstoy's three criteria for consideration as art, the other two being intelligibility and sincerity. The chapter argues that the socialist realist esthetics was not rooted in the Marxian esthetics, and discusses the impact of socialist realist esthetics in Molchanov's opera.
Robert Daniels
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300106497
- eISBN:
- 9780300134933
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300106497.003.0020
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Compared with all other forms of socialism, Marxian socialism was the natural outcome of the historical laws of class struggle and revolution that Karl Marx assumed he had discovered. Marx's ...
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Compared with all other forms of socialism, Marxian socialism was the natural outcome of the historical laws of class struggle and revolution that Karl Marx assumed he had discovered. Marx's socialism was utopianism in which a sophisticated theory of social and economic development reinforced the earlier ideal of a stateless collectivism with complete distributive justice. Marx incorporated in his thought the full importance of economic development through technical progress and industrialization, the first philosopher in history to do so. According to Marxism, economic development provided the material prerequisites to ensure the effective socialist redistribution of wealth in the name of justice. This developmental function was supposed to be the distinctive work of capitalism rather than the responsibility of socialism. A new kind of socialist ideal—production socialism—was envisioned as a replacement for capitalism in terms of accumulating capital and developing the productive forces of society. In Russia, production socialism formed the foundation of the Communists' betrayal of democratic and egalitarian ideals as well as their creation of the so-called bureaucratic state capitalism.Less
Compared with all other forms of socialism, Marxian socialism was the natural outcome of the historical laws of class struggle and revolution that Karl Marx assumed he had discovered. Marx's socialism was utopianism in which a sophisticated theory of social and economic development reinforced the earlier ideal of a stateless collectivism with complete distributive justice. Marx incorporated in his thought the full importance of economic development through technical progress and industrialization, the first philosopher in history to do so. According to Marxism, economic development provided the material prerequisites to ensure the effective socialist redistribution of wealth in the name of justice. This developmental function was supposed to be the distinctive work of capitalism rather than the responsibility of socialism. A new kind of socialist ideal—production socialism—was envisioned as a replacement for capitalism in terms of accumulating capital and developing the productive forces of society. In Russia, production socialism formed the foundation of the Communists' betrayal of democratic and egalitarian ideals as well as their creation of the so-called bureaucratic state capitalism.
Jacques Lezra
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823279425
- eISBN:
- 9780823281527
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823279425.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This introductory chapter argues that what has come to be called the Marxian tradition takes shape around a long series of disavowals of Karl Marx's critical-political project. It takes Marx and his ...
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This introductory chapter argues that what has come to be called the Marxian tradition takes shape around a long series of disavowals of Karl Marx's critical-political project. It takes Marx and his closest readers to have had their critical-political project in all its radicality in mind: as an account of wild mediation with every bit of edge ground into it. Because it does not sit well with mechanisms of capture, of value-production, of universal translation, of disciplinarization; with mechanisms that link, however dialectically, the “world” with the “local;” this project has remained a peripheral, contested, mostly unrecognized aspect of the Marxian tradition.Less
This introductory chapter argues that what has come to be called the Marxian tradition takes shape around a long series of disavowals of Karl Marx's critical-political project. It takes Marx and his closest readers to have had their critical-political project in all its radicality in mind: as an account of wild mediation with every bit of edge ground into it. Because it does not sit well with mechanisms of capture, of value-production, of universal translation, of disciplinarization; with mechanisms that link, however dialectically, the “world” with the “local;” this project has remained a peripheral, contested, mostly unrecognized aspect of the Marxian tradition.
