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Book SynopsisIn Philosophy After Marx, Christoph Henning writes a concise history of mis-readings of Marx in the 20th century. Focusing on German philosophy from Heidegger to Habermas, he also addresses the influence of Rawls and Neopragmatism, subsequently scrutinizing a previous history of Marx - interpretations that had served as the premises upon which these later works were based. With the recent resurgence of interest in Marx, Henning's historical recursions make evident where and how academic Anti-Marxism had previously got it wrong.
Trade Review“Christoph Henning’s Philosophy After Marx is a comprehensive, six-hundred page indictment of everyone from Kautsky to present-day left liberals of Habermasian or Rawlsian stripe, and it is well worth standing p to its innumerable provocations. It is a tireless catalogue of what I will call Marx-avoidance, which for all its unremitting zeal remains oddly non-partisan.” —Fredric Jameson,New Left Review
Christoph Henning’s Philosophy After Marx is a comprehensive, six-hundred page indictment of everyone from Kautsky to present-day left liberals of Habermasian or Rawlsian stripe, and it is well worth standing p to its innumerable provocations. It is a tireless catalogue of what I will call Marx-avoidance, which for all its unremitting zeal remains oddly non-partisan.” Fredric Jameson,New Left Review
Table of ContentsIn Place of a Preface ‘Sandblasting Marx’ – a review by Fredric Jameson 1 Introduction 1.1 The problem 1.2 Retaining Marx? A preliminary account of his theory 1.3 The lacuna in contemporary social theory 1.4 On the method employed in this study 1.5 The structure of the study 2 Marx Yesterday: On the Genesis of Erroneous Theoretical Receptions 2.1 Marx in the theory of Social Democracy 2.2 Marx in the theory of communism 2.3 Marx in economic theory 2.4 Marx in (German) sociology 2.5 ‘From Marx to Heidegger’: social philosophy 2.6 Critical theory or the dissolution of critique in religion 3 Marx today: critique of contemporary philosophy 3.1 Jürgen Habermas or the return of the philosophy of law 3.2 John Rawls or the apotheosis of ignorance 3.3 Business ethics: a ‘normatively substantive’ social theory? 3.4 Neo-pragmatism or the persistence of Hegel 4 Conclusions on Philosophy after Marx 4.1 The reality check as a philosophical litmus test 4.2 Topology of social philosophy 4.3 The function and scope of theory after Marx 4.4 Normative theory: ethics as a surrogate for explanation References Index
