September 01st, 1998
On Cornelius Castoriadis
The death of Cornelius Castoriadis in December 1997 evoked respectful front-page coverage in France’s leading newspapers. Writing in Le Monde (30 Dec. 1997), the well-known sociologist Edgar Morin eulogized his friend, singling out Castoriadis’s concept of autonomy, in which the latter stressed moments in history when society carved out autonomy from the state. For Castoriadis, […]
January 01st, 1998
On Marx, Hegel, and Critical Theory in Postwar Germany: A Conversation with Iring Fetscher
– Published in Studies in East European Thought, 50: 1-28, 1998 – PDF – Published in Chinese in World Philosophy, No. 3 (2012), trans. by Jin Shou-tie – PDF
May 01st, 1997
Uncovering Marx's Yet Unpublished Writings
When Lawrence Krader published his historic transcription of Marx's Ethnological Notebooks 25 years ago, a new window was opened into Marx's thought. What in published form had become 250 pages of notes by Marx on Lewis Henry Morgan and other anthropologists which he had compiled in his last years, 1880-81, showed us as never before a Marx concerned as much with gender relations and with non-Western societies such as India, pre-Colombian Mexico, and the Australian aborigines, as well as ancient Ireland, as he was with the emancipation of the industrial [...]
January 01st, 1997
On the MEGA and the French Edition of Capital, Vol. I: An Appreciation and a Critique
September 21st, 1995
Lenin’s Encounter with Hegel after Eighty Years
As I write these lines, it is 80 years since the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 began to undermine liberalism’s modernist faith in unilinear progress toward the well-being of all. Established Marxism, itself influenced philosophically by neo-Kantian and positivist evolutionary schemata, was almost as unprepared for the resurgence of violence and destruction in the heart of the world’s most “advanced” and democratic capitalist societies. In what was to become the first major crisis of Marxism, the Second International split apart, as fine words about internationalism receded in [...]
November 01st, 1994
Derrida on Marx: (Re)turn or De(con)struction?
Ever since he stunned an international Marx conference in Riverside, California last year with his call for a return to Marx, something which also marked a major "turn" in his thought, Jacques Derrida's book The Specters of Marx has been eagerly awaited by a broad spectrum of the intellectual Left. The book is in fact a much-expanded version of that April 1993 lecture. ...
November 01st, 1993
On Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory: A Critical Appreciation of Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution, Fifty Years Later
(Chinese Translation)
