Marx and Singularity: From the Early Writings to the Grundrisse (Historical Materialism) - Softcover

Basso, Luca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608463362 ISBN 13: 9781608463367

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2014

Synopsis

The productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of individual realisation, simultaneously stressing its distance from the modern conception of individuality. The correlate” of singularity is the reciprocity, moving and unstable, between the individual” and the collective,” which occurs in class struggles.

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About the Author

Luca Basso Ph.D. University of Pisa, studied in Padua and in Berlin. He is Researcher of Political Philosophy at the University of Padua. He has published many articles and three monographs: Individuo e comunità nella filosofia politica di Leibniz (Rubbettino, 2005), Socialità e isolamento: la singolarità in Marx (Carocci, 2008) of which the current book is a revised edition, and Agire in comune. Antropologia e politica nell’ultimo Marx (Ombre Corte, 2012).

From the Back Cover

Marx and Singularity attempts to understand the development of Marx's thought as a search for individual realization. Drawing upon the concept of singularity in contemporary French theory―and mapping its own terminology onto Marx's vocabulary―this book challenges those who see no difference between the early and the “mature” Marx. The productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of individual realization, while stressing at the same time its distance from the modern conception of individuality so central to capitalist ideology. The “correlate” of singularity is reciprocity―moving and unstable between the “individual” and the “collective”―which occurs in the class struggle.

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Marx and Singularity attempts to understand the development of Marx's thought as a search for individual realization. Drawing upon the concept of singularity in contemporary French theory--and mapping its own terminology onto Marx's vocabulary--this book challenges those who see no difference between the early and the "mature" Marx. The productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of individual realization, while stressing at the same time its distance from the modern conception of individuality so central to capitalist ideology. The "correlate" of singularity is reciprocity--moving and unstable between the "individual" and the "collective"--which occurs in the class struggle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608463362
• ISBN 13: 9781608463367
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226