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a slip of the pen

133

However, Marx’s original is not simply a lapsus calami: not only does it exist (with the same etymology) in an older form of German, but it is to be found in theological contexts

Marx's use of the term inwohnend

—p.133 Afterword: Philosophical Anthropology or Ontology of Relations? Exploring the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach (123) by Étienne Balibar
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However, Marx’s original is not simply a lapsus calami: not only does it exist (with the same etymology) in an older form of German, but it is to be found in theological contexts

Marx's use of the term inwohnend

—p.133 Afterword: Philosophical Anthropology or Ontology of Relations? Exploring the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach (123) by Étienne Balibar
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(noun) a sentence or phrase (as “nothing is good enough for you”) that can be interpreted in more than one way

151

But a more troubling amphibology still possibly ‘inhabits’ our attempts to interpret the intellectual operation whereby Marx deconstructs and redefines what is to be understood by ‘human essence’

—p.151 Afterword: Philosophical Anthropology or Ontology of Relations? Exploring the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach (123) by Étienne Balibar
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But a more troubling amphibology still possibly ‘inhabits’ our attempts to interpret the intellectual operation whereby Marx deconstructs and redefines what is to be understood by ‘human essence’

—p.151 Afterword: Philosophical Anthropology or Ontology of Relations? Exploring the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach (123) by Étienne Balibar
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give or assign a value to, especially a higher value: "The prophets valorized history"

155

the materialist imperative of valorizing the ‘productive forces’ in the face of bourgeois hegemony and its intellectual forms

—p.155 Afterword: Philosophical Anthropology or Ontology of Relations? Exploring the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach (123) by Étienne Balibar
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the materialist imperative of valorizing the ‘productive forces’ in the face of bourgeois hegemony and its intellectual forms

—p.155 Afterword: Philosophical Anthropology or Ontology of Relations? Exploring the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach (123) by Étienne Balibar
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the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

162

It is also one of those that most clearly affirm the eschatological postulate of an ‘end of politics’, at the cost of profound obscurity as regards the notion of power (and, consequently, the state)

on the Communist Manifesto

—p.162 Appendix: The End of Politics or Politics without End? Marx and the Aporia of ‘Communist Politics’ (159) by Étienne Balibar
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It is also one of those that most clearly affirm the eschatological postulate of an ‘end of politics’, at the cost of profound obscurity as regards the notion of power (and, consequently, the state)

on the Communist Manifesto

—p.162 Appendix: The End of Politics or Politics without End? Marx and the Aporia of ‘Communist Politics’ (159) by Étienne Balibar
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(noun) a division or split in a group or union; schism / (noun) an action or process of cutting, dividing, or splitting; the state of being cut, divided, or split

163

This contradiction, or scission, was reproduced throughout the historical trajectory of Marxism, at the cost of increasingly intense internal conflicts

on Marx saying he is not a Marxist?

—p.163 Appendix: The End of Politics or Politics without End? Marx and the Aporia of ‘Communist Politics’ (159) by Étienne Balibar
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6 years, 6 months ago

This contradiction, or scission, was reproduced throughout the historical trajectory of Marxism, at the cost of increasingly intense internal conflicts

on Marx saying he is not a Marxist?

—p.163 Appendix: The End of Politics or Politics without End? Marx and the Aporia of ‘Communist Politics’ (159) by Étienne Balibar
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biopolitics: a term defined by Foucault (though not first) as the style of government that regulates populations through "biopower" (the application and impact of political power on all aspects of human life)

166

this theme is central in an argument like that of Hardt and Negri, who make the antithesis between global civil war (itself comprising multiple visible or invisible wars) and the multitude (with its forms of resistance and modes of communication) the defining characteristic of the new revolutionary politics they propose, dubbing it ‘bio-politics

—p.166 Appendix: The End of Politics or Politics without End? Marx and the Aporia of ‘Communist Politics’ (159) by Étienne Balibar
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6 years, 6 months ago

this theme is central in an argument like that of Hardt and Negri, who make the antithesis between global civil war (itself comprising multiple visible or invisible wars) and the multitude (with its forms of resistance and modes of communication) the defining characteristic of the new revolutionary politics they propose, dubbing it ‘bio-politics

—p.166 Appendix: The End of Politics or Politics without End? Marx and the Aporia of ‘Communist Politics’ (159) by Étienne Balibar
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