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Book SynopsisThis volume uses the eight notebooks "the Grundrisse" Karl Marx worked on in 1857-58 to examine his literary, political, and scientific imagination. The author speculates on the limits and possibilities of Marx's interpretive approach for addressing current issues in philosophy and hermeneutics.
Trade Review“A brilliant reading of Marx as a writer and theorist ... Without belittling Marx’s importance and intentions as a social theorist, Kemple reads him as a writer, composing his work amid the conceptual, structural, and economic conditions of his age. The book is a masterpiece in bridging the discourses of social and critical theories and literature.”—Henry Sussman, SUNY, Buffalo
Table of ContentsForword: ruptures in reason Part 1... Faust's Study: 1. Science, technology, and the song of the cellar rat Part 2 ... Marx's Desk: 2. Marx reading: on the humanist concept of essence 3. Reading Marx: on the alien character of revolution Part III ... Balzac's Pact: 4. The pyramid of sacrifice: Marx's unknown masterpiece and the problem of realism 5. The ledger: Marxian science fiction in the critique of political economy 6. the black Madonna: speculations on aesthetics and (post)Marxism Appendices.
