Philosophy After Marx: 100 Years Of Misreadings And The Normative Turn In Political Philosophy

Christoph Henning: Ph.D. (2003), is a philosopher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has published widely on economic philosophy, Marxism, and critical theory, and recently wrote a book entitled Political Philosophy of Perfectionism.Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture’s relation to political economy.

“Christoph Henning’s Philosophy After Marx is a comprehensive, six-hundred page indictment of everyone from Kautsky to present-day left liberals of Habermasian or Rawlsian stripe, and it is well worth standing p to its innumerable provocations. It is a tireless catalogue of what I will call Marx-avoidance, which for all its unremitting zeal remains oddly non-partisan.” —Fredric Jameson,New Left Review

• In Place of a Preface‘Sandblasting Marx’ – a review by Fredric Jameson1 Introduction1.1 The problem1.2 Retaining Marx? A preliminary account of his theory1.3 The lacuna in contemporary social theory1.4 On the method employed in this study1.5 The structure of the study2 Marx Yesterday: On the Genesis of Erroneous Theoretical Receptions2.1 Marx in the theory of Social Democracy2.2 Marx in the theory of communism2.3 Marx in economic theory2.4 Marx in (German) sociology2.5 ‘From Marx to Heidegger’: social philosophy2.6 Critical theory or the dissolution of critique in religion3 Marx today: critique of contemporary philosophy3.1 Jürgen Habermas or the return of the philosophy of law3.2 John Rawls or the apotheosis of ignorance3.3 Business ethics: a ‘normatively substantive’ social theory?3.4 Neo-pragmatism or the persistence of Hegel4 Conclusions on Philosophy after Marx4.1 The reality check as a philosophical litmus test4.2 Topology of social philosophy4.3 The function and scope of theory after Marx4.4 Normative theory: ethics as a surrogate for explanationReferencesIndex