The book offers an explanation of how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, the author explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2478727
In the context of renewed attempts to theorize a crisis-prone capitalism, the collective volume (Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy critically reflects on the ways in which major continental philosophers related to the theoretical and political legacy of Karl Marx, and identifies new possibilities for combining Marx’s insights with those of recent continental thought. For a generation of leading European philosophers in the twentieth century, Marxism was no longer an unsurpassable horizon but a horizon in need of surpassing. The book provides new critical readings of the role of Marx in the work of these thinkers as well as their Marxist predecessors and post-Marxist followers. It brings together both leading and emerging figures in continental philosophy and Marxism to address the interpretations of Marx offered by these major European thinkers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Rancière, Latour, and Žižek.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33063261
The paper analyzes the question of catastrophe in two seemingly heterogeneous frameworks: in Beckett and Žižek. Among the interpretations of Waiting for Godot, which wrongfully appears to be an easily analyzable play, the prevailing one is to inscribe it into the framework of Heidegger’s or Sartre’s existentialism and read it as a tragicomedy. The author, to the contrary, argues that it belongs to a specific form of comic, taking place in the aftermath of the catastrophe. Contrary to Simon Critchley’s thesis of (Beckett’s) comedy as the contemporary form of tragedy, the author argues for the comic of comedy, grounding his reasoning on Alenka Zupančič’s thesis about the political implications of the comic. The second part of the paper concerns the concept of catastrophe in recent works by Žižek, where the concept is closely tied with his formulation of radical politics: a radical political action demands from us the perspective of the aftermath of the catastrophe. The thesis is that the overlap of Beckett’s and Žižek’s idea of catastrophe is not just a case of accidental homonymity.
COBISS.SI-ID: 55589730