Author: Bernard E. Harcourt
Crib Sheet on Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach”
Date of writing: April 1845 Context of writing: Marx is in Brussels, having fled France. He just finished drafting the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (which would remain unpublished) and, with Engels, The Holy Family (1844-45), and is working… Continue Reading
Étienne Balibar | A simplified topography of concepts organizing Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach”
Étienne Balibar | The philosophical structure of Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach” according to Althusser in his 1961 Seminar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
Jean Louise Cohen
Jean L.Cohen is the Nell and Herbert Singer Professor of Political Theory and Contemporary Civilization in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. She has written numerous books and articles including Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian… Continue Reading
Jules Gleeson
Jules Gleeson is a writer, comedian, and historian. She is coeditor, with Elle O’Rourke, of Transgender Marxism. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine, Invert Journal, and VICE, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events. Her articles… Continue Reading
Renata Salecl
4/13 READINGS | Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 and Jacques Lacan
Primary text: Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 in Karl Marx-Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Volume 3 (Marx and Engels 1843-1844), trans. Martin Milligan (New York: International Publishers, 1975); in Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, trans.… Continue Reading
3/13 READINGS | Marx’s Critique of Hegel and On the Jewish Question
Primary texts: Karl Marx, “Introduction” to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843) in The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition, ed. Robert C. Tucker (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), pp. 16-25 on-line at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm Karl… Continue Reading
2/13 READINGS | Marx’s Debates on the Thefts of Wood and Michel Foucault
Primary text: Karl Marx, Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood (1842) in Karl Marx-Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Volume 1 (Karl Marx: 1835-1843) (New York: International Publishers, 1975), pp. 224-263. on-line at https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1842/10/25.htm Secondary text: Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures… Continue Reading