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Grounding Critique
Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 302
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Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations argues that marxism must have a robust understanding of embodied social relations, such as race, gender, and sexuality, in order to produce the knowledge necessary for transformative social change. Tanyildiz subjects two important strands of marxist social theory —marxist-feminism and social reproduction theory— to a methodological examination and demonstrates their shortcomings. Focusing on these strands’ critiques of intersectionality as a moment of crystallization in concept formation,
Grounding Critique explores alternative ways of using Marx’s method to understand contemporary human praxis.
Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brock University, Canada. As a theoretical methodologist of social sciences and humanities, his research focuses on concept formation in social and spatial theories of marxism, racial capitalism, and social reproduction.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Living Individual and the Marionette
i
The Predicament of the Marxist Sociologist
ii
A Marxism Made to the Measure of Life
iii
The Principle of Sociability for Social Relations
iv
The Specificity of Social Relations in Marx
v
Embodied Social Relations under Capitalism
vi
Embodied Social Relations in Contemporary Marxist Social Thought
vii
A Brief Note on Intersectionality
viii
A Marxist-Feminist Symposium on Intersectionality
ix
Embodied Social Relations in Social Reproduction Theory
x
A Conceptual Ground Clearing to Return to Marx
part i
Embodied Social Relations in Contemporary Marxist-Feminism
i
Introduction
ii
Intersectionality
iii
Some Methodological Propositions for a Marxist Engagement with Intersectionality
iv
The Generalization of Embodied Social Relations as the Categories of Subjective Human Life
v
The Framing of the Marxist-Feminist Engagement with Intersectionality
vi
The Analytic Primacy of Class and the Transformative Pedagogies
vii
The Ideological Techniques of Bourgeois Management
viii
The Concept of the Mode of Production
ix
The Methodological Tension between the Phenomenology and Ontology of the Social
x
The Need for the Recovery of the Concept of Experience in its Lived Sense
xi
Embodied Social Relations and the Levels of Analysis in Social Sciences
xii
Class Burdened with the Difficult Conceptual Task of Reconciling History with the Social
xiii
Mistaking Critical Marxist Epistemologies for a Sociology of Knowledge
xiv
A Quasi-transcendental Framework of Explanation Premised upon a First Principle
xv
Marxism and the Non-identity of the Law and Life in Contemporary Capitalist Societies
xvi
Supra-racial Epistemology of an Aleatory and Subjectless Conception of History
xvii
Marxist-Feminist Aporetic of Description versus Explanation
xviii
10 + 1 Theses on Feuerbach
xix
The Non-coincidence of Experience and Explanation
xx
Marxist-Feminist Inscription of the Binary of the Idiographic versus the Nomothetic
xxi
Why ‘Race’ Cannot Be Accommodated within a Marxist-Feminist Analysis as an Embodied Social Relation?
xxii
Conclusion
part ii
Embodied Social Relations in Social Reproduction Theory
i
Introduction
ii
What Is the Relationship between Social Reproduction Theory and Intersectionality?
iii
Social Reproduction Theory’s Ambiguous and Inadequately Self-reflexive Relationship to Intersectionality
iv
Social Reproduction Theory as a Marxist-Feminist Alternative to Intersectionality
v
Social Reproduction Theory’s ‘Methodology’ and its Articulation and Selection of Social Problems
vi
‘Race,’ Racialization, and Experience in Social Reproduction Feminism
vii
Vacillating between Supplementing and Supplanting Intersectionality
viii
Inauguration of Socialist-Feminist Political Economy as a Unitary Social Theory
ix
One-Sidedness of Experience in Social Reproduction Theory
x
The Values, Facts, and Factuality of Oppression in the Quasi-transcendental Structure of Social Reproduction Theory
xi
Social Reproduction Theory as Sublated Intersectionality
xii
Metaphorizing Concepts, Criticizing Metaphors
xiii
(Hegelian-Marxist) Totality in Social Reproduction Theory?
xiv
Severing Methodology from the Rest of the Theoretical Framework in Social Reproduction Theory
xv
Co-constitutivity in Social Reproduction Theory
xvi
‘Additive Method,’ Anti-additivity, and Social Reproduction Theory
xvii
Liberalism, Ontological Atomism, Social Newtonianism, and Intersectionality According to Social Reproduction Theory
xviii
An Alternative Outlook on the Relationship between Intersectionality and the Critical Import of Newton’s System into Liberal Bourgeois Social Thought
xix
The Pitfalls of the ‘Methodology’ of Analogical Argumentations and Battling Metaphors
xx
Towards a Marxist Social Theory of Embodied Social Relations
Coda: A Long Day’s Evening
i
A Critique of Concept Formation
ii
Through Intersectionality to Concept Formation in Contemporary Marxist Social Thought
iii
Dissolving Intersecting Lines in Favour of Parallel Planes Bereft of Social Existence and Life
iv
Conceptual Conditions of Dialectically Overcoming Intersectionality
v
The Finality of Conceptual Judgement?
vi
Tarrying with Marxist-Feminism and Social Reproduction Theory
vii
Quo Vadis Social Reproduction?
viii
Social Reproduction Qua Method
ix
Returning to Marx to Study Embodied Social Relations
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Living Individual and the Marionette
Embodied Social Relations in Contemporary Marxist-Feminism
Embodied Social Relations in Social Reproduction Theory
Coda: A Long Day’s Evening
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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