Marx 13/13 Seminar Series Schedule 2024-2025

Marx 1/13 | Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach and Ernst Bloch with Étienne Balibar

Étienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach and Ernst Bloch’s Commentary from The Principle of Hope

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Columbia Global Paris Center

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Marx 2/13 | Marx on the Thefts of Wood and Foucault on the Punitive Society with Judith Revel

Judith Revel and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s Debates on the Law of Thefts of Wood, and Michel Foucault’s The Punitive Society, and Discipline & Punish

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Columbia Global Paris Center

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Marx 3/13 | Marx’s Critique of Hegel and On the Jewish Question

Jean Louise Cohen and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

 Marx’s “Introduction” to his Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and “On the Jewish Question” in conversation with Claude Lefort’s “Politics and Human Rights

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Columbia University

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Marx 4/13 | Marx’s Manuscripts of 1844 and Jacques Lacan with Renata Salecl

Renata Salecl and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 and Lacan’s Formations of the Unconscious (1958)

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Columbia University

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Marx 5/13 | Marx’s The German Ideology and Monique Wittig with Jules Joanne Gleeson

Jules Joanne Gleeson and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s The German Ideology and Monique Wittig’s The Category of Sex

Monday, December 9, 2024

Columbia University

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Marx 6/13 | Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto and Vladimir Lenin with Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser

Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) Vladimir Lenin’s April Theses (1917)

in conversation with their book, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (2019)

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Columbia University

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Marx 7/13 | Marx on The Class Struggles in France and W.E.B. Du Bois with Gayatri Spivak

Gayatri Spivak and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850 and W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Columbia University

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Marx 8/13 | Marx and Engels on The Counter-Revolution in Germany 1848 & The Eighteenth Brumaire and Herbert Marcuse’s Counterrevolution and Revolt — in these early days of a Counterrevolution

In these early days of The Counterrevolution

Bernard E. Harcourt and guests

read and discuss

Engels’ Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany 1848

and Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,

in conversation with Herbert Marcuse’s Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972)

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Columbia University

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Marx 9/13 | Marx’s Grundrisse and Antonio Negri with Michael Hardt and Sandro Mazzadra

Michael Hardt, Sandro Mazzadra, and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s Grundrisse and Antonio Negri’s Marx Beyond Marx, and Marx in Movement

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Columbia University

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Marx 10/13 | Marx and Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism with Cornel West

Cornel West and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Capital, and Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Columbia University

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Marx 11/13 | The Late Marx and Degrowth Communism with Kohei Saito

Kohei Saito

reads and discusses with Bernard E. Harcourt

the Late Marx and Degrowth Communism

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Columbia University

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Marx 12/13 | Marx’s The Civil War in France with Bruno Bosteels

 Bruno Bosteels and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s The Civil War in France with Voltairine de Cleyre’s “The Commune is Risen” and Plotino Rhodakanaty’s “The American Commune”

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Columbia University

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Marx 13/13 | Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program and Letter to Vera Zasulich with Étienne Balibar

Étienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss

Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program and Letter to Vera Zasulich

Wednesday, May 27, 2025

Columbia Global Paris Center