Rethinking Marxist approaches to transition : : a theory of temporal dislocation / / by Onur Acaroglu.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 171
• VerfasserIn: Acaroglu, Onur,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 171.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Rethinking Marxist Theories of Transition , Onur Acaroglu traces the concept of transition across the tracts of Classical and Western Marxism. Rarely directly invoked, transition between different societies appears as an imminent social reality, and a useful conceptual tool for critical social th...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 The Curious Neglect of Transition in Left Theory
• 2 The Structure of the Book
• Part 1: The Theoretical Heritage: Transition in Classical and Western Marxism
• Introduction to Part 1
• 1 'Poetry of the Future': Marx and the Problematic of Transition
• 1 The Primacy of Production
• 2 Production and Alienation
• 3 The Separation of the Political and the Economic
• 4 The Tasks of Social Revolution and Non-contemporaneous Contemporaneity
• 5 Communism as Positive Supersession
• 6 Marx and Transition
• 7 Towards a Theory of Transition
• 2 Interlacing of Times: the 'Althusser Effect', Temporality and Transition
• 1 Expressive Totality to Ruptural Unity: Althusser Reading Marx
• 2 Temporal Dislocation: Balibar Reading Althusser
• 3 'Revolution against 'Capital": Gramsci Reading Marx
• 4 Time of Times: Althusser Reading Gramsci
• 3 The Discursive Turn: the Post-Marxist Gramsci of Laclau and Mouffe
• 1 Class, Popular Interpellations, and Populism
• 2 Discourse and Hegemony
• 3 The Impasses of Discourse Analysis and the Melancholy of Radical Democracy
• Summary: The Marxist Transition Debate and the Notion of Plural Temporalities
• 1 Transition and Historical Materialism
• 2 Transition Problematised: Althusser, Balibar, and Gramsci
• 3 Post-Marxism: the Discursive Turn and the Disappearance of Transition
• 4 Temporality, Transition and Debates on the Left
• Part 2: Transition as Hermeneutic: the Dichotomy of Melancholy and Utopia
• Introduction to Part 2
• 4 Left Melancholy: Obstacle or Resource?
• 1 Mourning and 'Left' Melancholy
• 2 Melancholy as Obstacle
• 3 Melancholy as Resource
• 5 Through the Melancholic Impasse: Utopia
• 1 Anti-utopianism and the Neoliberal Closure of the Future
• 2 Reformulating the Utopian
• 3 Marx, Engels and Utopia
• 4 Bloch and the Not-Yet
• 5 Spatio-temporal Utopianism as Method: Harvey and Levitas
• 6 Timelessness of Utopia
• Summary: Melancholy Utopia, and Transition as a Hermeneutic
• 1 Mourning and 'Left Melancholy': Freud to Benjamin
• Part 3: Enacting Transition: Substantive Left Visions
• Introduction to Part 3
• 6 Lineages of Postwork Theory
• 1 Antiwork Politics: the Critique of Productivism
• 2 The Autonomist Corollary
• 3 Accelerationism
• 4 Postwork Departures
• 7 Postwork: a Contemporary Left Vision
• 1 The Postwork Agenda
• 2 Postcapitalism: Mason on the Information Economy
• 3 Inventing the Future: the Post-accelerationist Techno-utopian Strain
• 4 Techno-utopian Futurity
• 8 Demands, Agency and Strategy
• 1 Postwork Demands: Non-reformist Reforms
• 2 Social Reproduction and the Agency of Transition
• 3 Organising Transition: Prefiguration after Occupy
• 4 Transition as Prefiguration
• Summary: Transitional Politics and a Prefigurative Left Vision
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.