Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy
Also by Andrew Chitty HAS HISTORY ENDED? FUKUYAMA, MARX, MODERNITY (co-editor with Christopher Bertram, 1994 )
Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy Edited by Andrew Chitty University of Sussex Martin McIvor
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Table of Contents Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Andrew Chitty and Martin McIvor PART I MARX AND HIS PREDECESSORS 1 The Entire Mystery : Marx s Understanding of Hegel 15 Joseph McCarney 2 Marx s Philosophical Modernism: Post-Kantian Foundations of Historical Materialism 36 Martin McIvor 3 Marx, the European Tradition, and the Philosophic Radicals 55 Scott Meikle PART II MARX AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 4 Marx s Theory of Democracy in His Critique of Hegel s Philosophy of the State 79 Georgios Daremas 5 Marx and Conservatism 99 Andrew Collier 6 An Unfinished Project: Marx s Critique of Hegel s Philosophy of Right 105 Robert Fine PART III MARX ON LABOUR, MONEY AND CAPITAL 7 Species-Being and Capital 123 Andrew Chitty 8 Labour in Modern Industrial Society 143 Sean Sayers 9 The Concept of Money 159 Christopher J. Arthur 10 Value, Money and Capital in Hegel and Marx 174 Patrick Murray 11 Abstraction and Productivity: Structures of Intentionality and Action in Marx s Capital 188 William Clare Roberts vii
viii Table of Contents PART IV TWENTIETH-CENTURY MARXISM 12 The Subject and Social Theory: Marx and Lukács on Hegel 205 Moishe Postone 13 Multiple Returns: Althusser on Dialectics 221 John Grant 14 The Rationality of Analytical Marxism 236 Roberto Veneziani PART V MARX AND FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY 15 Marxism and Feminism: Living with Your Ex 255 Terrell Carver 16 Breaking Waves: Feminism and Marxism Revisited 269 Gillian Howie Index 286
Notes on Contributors Christopher J. Arthur formerly taught philosophy in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Sussex, England. He is the author of Dialectics of Labour (Basil Blackwell, 1986) and The New Dialectic and Marx s Capital (Brill, 2002). He has published also the following books: edited and introduced The German Ideology by Marx and Engels (Lawrence & Wishart, 1970), edited and introduced Law and Marxism by E. B. Pashukanis (Inklinks, 1978), abridged and introduced Marx s Capital: A Student Edition (Lawrence & Wishart, 1992), edited and introduced Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation (Macmillan, 1996), edited and introduced (with G. Reuten) The Circulation of Capital: Essays on Volume Two of Marx s Capital (Macmillan, 1998). Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on Marx and Engels and their relationship to contemporary social theory. His most recent book in this area is The Postmodern Marx (Manchester University Press, 1998). Currently he is working on a new translation of the main manuscript from which the opening chapter of The German Ideology was constructed. Andrew Chitty is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, where he teaches the UK s only Masters course in Marx s philosophy. He is co-editor of Has History Ended? Fukuyama, Marx, Modernity (Avebury Press, 1994) and has written widely on Hegel and Marx. He was a founding organiser of the Marx and Philosophy Society. Andrew Collier is a Professor of Philosophy at Southampton University, where he has lectured for 18 years. He is also a founder member and trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism. His recently published books include Christianity and Marxism (Routledge, 2001), In Defence of Objectivity (Routledge, 2003) and Marx (Oneworld, 2004). Georgios Daremas is a Senior Lecturer in the Communications Department of the University of Indianapolis, Athens campus. He has published articles on Marx, Hegel, the Frankfurt school, communication theory and the epistemology of social sciences. Robert Fine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. His most recent work is Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2007). His other books include Political Investigations: Hegel, Marx, Arendt (Routledge, 2001) and Democracy and the Rule of Law: Marx s Critique of the Legal Form (Blackburn, 2003). He has been doing research on Humanitarian military intervention (ESRC) and currently on Antisemitism in France and the UK (Ford Foundation). His ongoing ix
x Notes on Contributors and somewhat esoteric concern is with the relation of critical social theory to the natural law tradition. John Grant has a Ph.D. in political theory from Queen Mary, University of London. He has a number of journal articles forthcoming, including Foucault and the Logic of Dialectics (Contemporary Political Theory) and Marcuse Remade? Theory and Explanation in Hardt and Negri (Science & Society). His research interests include critical theory, conceptual frameworks of political criticism, with specific emphasis on the dialectical tradition, and the role of citizen engagement in policy making. Gillian Howie is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Her recent publications include Aura of Expressionism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Natural Kinds in Feminist Theory: Essentialism Revisited (Contemporary Political Theory, 2006). She is founding director of the Institute for Feminist Theory and as part of the IFTR series has co-edited Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education (Ashgate, 2001), Third Wave Feminism (2nd edn Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Menstruation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Women and the Divine: Feminism and Transcendence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). She is currently working on Essentialism Revisited: Feminism, Materialism and Marxism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Joseph McCarney taught Philosophy at London South Bank University from 1969 to 2000. He was the author of numerous articles on Marx and Marxist thought, and of three books: The Real World of Ideology (Harvester, 1980); Social Theory and the Crisis of Marxism (Verso, 1990) and Hegel on History (Routledge, 2000). He was working on the Hegel Marx relationship when he died tragically in a car accident in August 2007. Martin McIvor has a Ph.D. in political theory from the London School of Economics, where he taught history of political thought. He is an organiser of the Marx and Philosophy Society and a longstanding editor of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. He writes on a range of topics in philosophy, politics and public policy including work published or forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Imprints, Soundings and The Lancet. He is currently working as a trade union researcher. Scott Meikle is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. He was educated at Salesian College, London, and at Bristol and Oxford Universities. He is the author of Essentialism in the Thought of Karl Marx (Duckworth, 1985) and Aristotle s Economic Thought (Clarendon Press, 1995) and the editor of Marx, International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy (Ashgate, 2000). Patrick Murray is Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He is the author of Marx s Theory of Scientific Knowledge (Humanities Press, 1988) and editor of Reflections on Commercial Life: Classic
Notes on Contributors xi Texts from Plato to the Present (Routledge, 1997). He is a member of the International Symposium on Marxian Theory (ISMT) and has contributed to all the ISMT books. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Historical Materialism and Critique of Political Economy. Moishe Postone is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His publications include Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx s Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Marx est-il devenu muet face à la mondialisation? (Les Éditions de l Aube, 2003); and Marx Reloaded: Repensar la teoria critica del capitalismo, edited by Alberto Riesco and Jorge Garcia Lopez (Traficantes de Suenos, 2007); and Critique and historical transformation, Historical Materialism 12 (3), 2004. William Clare Roberts teaches philosophy and political science at McGill University. His research focuses on the intersections between the history of political economy and the history of political and ethical philosophy, with special attention to Marx and Aristotle. He is author of The Origin of Political Economy and the Descent of Marx, in Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice, edited by Warren S. Goldstein (Brill, 2006), and Marx Contra the Democrats: The Force of The Eighteenth Brumaire, Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics, 2003. Sean Sayers is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has written extensively on topics of Hegelian and Marxist philosophy from a Hegelian-Marxist perspective. His books include Plato s Republic: An Introduction (Edinburgh University Press, 1999); Marxism and Human Nature (Routledge, 1998); Reality and Reason: Dialectic and the Theory of Knowledge (Blackwell, 1985); and Hegel, Marx and Dialectic: A Debate (1980, reprinted Gregg 1994). He has also co-edited Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy: A Radical Philosophy Reader (Routledge, 1991); Socialism and Democracy (Macmillan, 1991); and Socialism and Morality (Macmillan, 1990). He was one of the founding editors of Radical Philosophy, and a founder of the Marx and Philosophy Society. Roberto Veneziani is a lecturer in Economics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published numerous articles on Marxism and analytical Marxism in various economics and philosophy journals including in the Journal of Economic Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Metroeconomica, and the Review of Radical Political Economics. He has also published a number of contributions on justice and equality of opportunity including in the Journal of Public Economic Theory and Social Choice and Welfare. He is one of the founders and organisers of the Analytical Political Economy Workshops.