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[Marxism] Kant Rakesh Bhandari bhandari ply-To=> Fri May 19 01:09:16 MDT 2006 * Previous message: [Marxism] Latin America's New Imperialist (WSJ on Venezuela's Hugo Chavez) * Next message: [Marxism] Contradictions Contradictions Contradictions * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ________________________________ Very illuminating summary of Hegel's critique of Kant in the following; Marx inherits Hegel's critique of Kantian formalism. "Classical German Philosophy and Cohen's Critique of Rawls," European Journal of Philosophy 11/3 (December, 2003): 314-353. I think Lucien Goldmann's Philosophy of the Enlightenment is very helpful; good in relating enlightenment thought to the emergence of market society (Goldmann's dissertation was on Kant). Bernard Edelman (Ownership of the Image) has some provocative things to say about the contradictions in Kant's theory of the free, autonomous subject. Karatani's book is better about money and value theory than ethics, though the monetary theory guides him towards a project of reform rooted in exchange; good reviews by Harry Harootunian, Slavoj Zizek and on line Notre Dame philosophical reviews. The most important Kantian Marxist in my opinion was Max Adler, the philosophical leader of the Austro Marxists. He was hated by Trotsky. But see the collection of his writings in Austro Marxism and discussions by Leswak Kolokowski and Robert Gorman. Karatani does not mention him. His Kantianism was not ethical in orientation but critical and anti individualist in terms of epistemology To me, the key idea is that human beings do not contravene but establish causal order not in spite of but because of their apparently subjective consciousness which in fact is always already a social product which in turn ensures that they make sense of and act on reality in generally shared ways and thereby non mechanistically establish regular causal relations through consciousness. These causal relations make possible social science which therefore need not be reduced to Diltheyan hermeneutic understanding alone, and the possibility of social science need not imply the disparagement of consciousness as epi-phenomenal. Adler shares with Roy Bhaskar the attempt to save the possibility of Marxist social science against hermeneutical and other nihilistic, currently most fashionable critiques. To be sure, Adler's positivism would not stand today after Foucault and others, but he was still very stimulating. And much less naive than post modern critical theorists would assume. Rakesh ps if you are working with Sharad Chari, say hi for me! ________________________________ * Previous message: [Marxism] Latin America's New Imperialist (WSJ on Venezuela's Hugo Chavez) * Next message: [Marxism] Contradictions Contradictions Contradictions * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ________________________________ More information about the Marxism mailing list <http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism> _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
