Post-Marxist Marxism: Questioning the Answer

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Originally published in 1996, Post-Marxist Marxism is a discussion of realism in a Post-Marxist context. The book argues that this discussion must take two simultaneous routes: recognizing deconstruction as the tool of enquiry to disentangle the insufficiency of contemporary answers in political philosophy and aesthetics, and reclaiming realism to move beyond the Post-Modernist tradition. To answer the issues of realism, the book revisits Lucacs' and Adorno's aesthetic questions, which in their different approaches prefigured the questions of the present. Central issues include totality; method; identarian and non-identarian dialects; the Enlightenment; and the end of Modernity. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page An answer still questioned Dedication Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Questioning the Answer Connections Parodies What we call 'art' 1 Contexts of dilemma Distance A communist Facts, totality Acts of culture Human conditions 2 Narratives of method Entangled (in our) rules Re-placements Marxian seditions New presentations: Lukács and Gramsci 3 Judgements and subjects Gambling the bourgeois heritage Particularity Tragedy, action Subjects in 'special' worlds 4 Excursus: Serene refutations Grammar, practice Translations Ethical objections Blue Horses 5 Mimesis proscribed Humanist fallacies Telos unnamed As common sense Ungraven imagery Historic qua autonomous 6 The canticle of the absent image Identity, death Art and 'the jews' Luigi Nono and realism 'No hay caminos, hay que caminar' 7 Art beyond condition Relevanee, relève, and relevé Tautology as art's negative discourse The location of art's relevance Art as the radical game Bibliography