From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 13:36:03 EDT
Michael, It's been a very long time since I sat in her seminar but Seyla Benhabib does provide an inventory of the different meanings of critique in her Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory. She begins with the Schmittian Reinhard Koselleck's, Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society (1956), and she discusses the three levels of critique in Marx's Capital--immanent, defetishizing, and crisis oriented. She is a brilliantly lucid writer, though I don't think many here would agree with her development of Habermas' critique of Marx. Yours, Rakesh At 11:37 AM -0400 4/12/05, michael a. lebowitz wrote: >On the question of critique and political economy, for what it's >worth, here's a passage from p. 202 of Beyond Capital: > >>The critique of the political economy of capital is completed only >>by the realisation of the political economy of the working class--- >>a communist society. As long as producers are not their own >>mediator, the mystification of everyday life and the alienation of >>human beings from their own powers continue: >> >> The veil is not removed from the countenance of the social >>life-process, i.e. the process of material production, until it >> becomes production by freely associated men, and stands under >>their conscious and planned control (Marx, 1977: 173). >> > >Michael A. Lebowitz >Professor Emeritus >Economics Department >Simon Fraser University >Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 > >Currently based in Venezuela. Can be reached at >Residencias Anauco Suites >Departamento 601 >Parque Central, Zona Postal 1010, Oficina 1 >Caracas, Venezuela >(58-212) 573-4111 >fax: (58-212) 573-7724
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