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The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 256
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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.
Jason Read, PhD (2001), University of Southern Maine, is Professor of Philosophy. He has published
The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY, 2003) and
The Politics of Transindividuality (Brill, 2015).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
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
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
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
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
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students in philosophy, literary theory, and contemporary politics, as well researchers interested in continental philosophy, neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene.