MARXISM AND PHILOSOPHY, @ 12PM
JULY 1: Gramsci on the Study of Philosophy & Marx’s 11th Thesis on Feuerbach
(Peter Bratsis / Carlos Frade)
Antonio Gramsci. Selections from the Prison Notebooks, Edited and Translated by QUINTIN HOARE and GEOFFREY NOWELL SMITH. INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 1971: Pages 321-343 - The Study of Philosophy
Labica, Georges (1987) Karl Marx: Les thèses sur Feuerbach.
Frank Ruda, Idealism Without Idealism, 2014, Angelaki (19)1: Pages 83-98
Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy. Monthly Review Press, 2008
JULY 3: Praxis, Totality and Dialectics in Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness (Kostas Gousis / Victor Strazzeri)
Georg Lukács ([1923] 1971), History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, Merlin Press:
“The phenomenon of reification”, pp. 83-110;
“Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organisation”, pp. 295-343.
_______. ([1925?] 2000), A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic, London/New York: Verso:
“I. Problems of Class Consciousness”, pp. 48-63.
JULY 4:
Alienation
(Paul Reynolds)
Karl Marx, 1844 Economic and Philosophical (Paris) Manuscripts (especially the sections on ‘Estranged Labour’, and ‘Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic and Philosophy as a Whole’
Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
JULY 5: Spinoza, Commodity Fetishism, Real Abstraction (Kiarina Kordela)
Spinoza, Ethics, Part I and until proposition 7 of part II
Beth Lord Spinoza's Ethics, 15-48
Marx Capital: Volume 1, "The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret" (Penguin, 163-177)
Kordela: Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan, chapter 2: “Materialist epistemology: Marx and Sohn-Rethel with Spinoza and psychoanalysis,” 53-72
Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology,
JULY 6: Althusser and Philosophy: Spinoza (Panagiotis Sotiris)
Panagiotis Sotiris, Rethinking Structure and Conjuncture in Althusser, Historical Materialism 22.3-4 (2014).
Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism, Verso, 1974:
Pages 135 - 150
Louis Althusser, For Marx, Verso:
Pages 85-106, 108-126, 159-216