Becoming Marxist : : studies in philosophy, struggle, and endurance / / by Ted Stolze.

• VerfasserIn: Stolze, Ted,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 190.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 pages).

In Becoming Marxist Ted Stolze offers a series of studies that take up the importance of philosophy for the development of an open and critical Marxism. He argues that an adequate ‘philosophy for Marxism’ must be open to engagement with a diverse range of traditions, texts, and authors – from Paul of Tarsus, via Averroes, Spinoza, and Hobbes, to Althusser, Deleuze, Negri, Habermas, and Žižek. Stolze also explores such practical contemporary issues as the politics of self-emancipation, the nature of Islamophobia, and climate change.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Motto -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Marxism and the History of Philosophy -- What is a Philosophical Tendency? -- Paul of Tarsus, Thinker of the Conjuncture -- Paul’s Gift Economy: Wages, Debt, and Debt Cancellation -- Althusser and the Problem of Historical Individuality -- ‘The Roaring of the Sea’: Hobbes on the Madness of the Multitude -- Spinoza’s Three Modes of Rebellion: Indignant, Glorious, and Serene -- Alexandre Matheron on Militant Reason and the Intellectual Love of God -- An Ethics for Marxism: Spinoza on Fortitude -- Marxism and Contemporary Philosophy -- Death and Life in Marx’s Capital: an Ethical Investigation -- Hegel or Spinoza: Substance, Subject, and Critical Marxism -- Contradictions of Hyperreality: Baudrillard, Žižek, and Virtual Dialectics -- A Marxist Encounter with the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze -- Deleuze and Althusser: Flirting with Structuralism -- Marxist Wisdom: Antonio Negri on the Book of Job -- A Displaced Transition: Habermas on the Public Sphere -- Self-Emancipation, Then and Now -- Self-Emancipation and Political Marxism -- Islamophobia and Self-Emancipation -- Climate Crisis, Ideology, and Collective Action -- Beatitude: Marx, Aristotle, Averroes, Spinoza -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.