The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy

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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. ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgements ‎Introduction ‎Part 1. Becoming Contingent: Philosophy, Violence, History ‎Chapter 1. Primitive Accumulation: The Aleatory Foundation of Capitalism ‎Chapter 2. The Present as Pre-History: Adorno and Balibar on the Transformation of Labor ‎Chapter 3. The Althusser Effect: Philosophy, History, and Temporality ‎Chapter 4. To Think the New in the Absence of Its Conditions: Althusser and Negri and the Philosophy of Primitive Accumulation ‎Part 2. Putting the Capitalism Back into Capitalism and Schizophrenia: On Deleuze and Guattari ‎Chapter 5. A Universal History of Contingency: Deleuze and Guattari on the History of Capitalism ‎Chapter 6. The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Production of Subjectivity in Capitalism ‎Chapter 7. The Fetish is Always Actual, Revolution is Always Virtual: From Noology to Noopolitics ‎Chapter 8. The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari ‎Chapter 9. Beyond Enslavement and Subjection: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari ‎Part 3. Between Marx and Spinoza: Philosophy and Ideology ‎Chapter 10. The Potentia of Living Labor: Negri and the Practice of Philosophy ‎Chapter 11. The Order and Connection of Ideas: Theoretical Practice in Macherey’s Turn to Spinoza ‎Chapter 12. Desire is Man’s Very Essence: Spinoza and Hegel as Philosophers of Transindividuality ‎Chapter 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 ‎Chapter 14. Conscienta Sive Ideologia: The Spontaneity of Ideology ‎Part 4. Returns of Philosophical Anthropology: New Subjections/New Transformations ‎Chapter 15. A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity ‎Chapter 16. Abstract Materialism: Sohn-Rethel and the Task of a Materialist Philosophy Today ‎Chapter 17. The Production of Subjectivity: From Transindividuality to the Commons ‎Chapter 18. Man is a Werewolf to Man: Capital and the Limits of Political Anthropology ‎Chapter 19. The ‘Other Scene’ of Political Anthropology: Between Transindividuality and Equaliberty ‎Chapter 20. Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man ‎Bibliography ‎Index