From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 10:56:15 EDT
Untimely Marx: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique
by Daneil Bensaid, Daniel Bensaid, Gregory Elliott (Translator)
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* Hardcover: 400 pages
* Publisher: Verso Books; ISBN: 1859847129; (October 2002)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: 1,190,775
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Book Description
Without denying the contradictory character of Marx's thought, the
French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd sets out to demonstrate that it was
not a philosophy of the end of history, an empirical sociology of
classes, or a positive science of economics positing an inexorable
progress towards an ineluctable communism. Instead, Marx's 'critique
of political economy' encompassed three great critiques of the
scientific and political canons of its age-historical reason,
sociological rationality and scientific positivism-which make this
19th-century thinker relevant to the 21st century of global
capitalism. Indeed, we find here a 'post-postmodern Marx' inhabiting
a contemporary world replete with contingency, crisis and
contradiction. Bensaïd's book is an invitation to rediscover our
foremost contemporary thinker, Karl Marx.
About the Author
Daniel Bensaïd>/B> teaches philosophy at the University of Paris VIII
and is the author of books on Marxism, Walter Benjamin, the French
Revolution and Joan of Arc.
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