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(noun) the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature

ix

As will be apparent, the style is that not of an ‘introduction’, but of a semi-philological, semi-philosophical discussion

—p.ix Preface (ix) by Étienne Balibar
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As will be apparent, the style is that not of an ‘introduction’, but of a semi-philological, semi-philosophical discussion

—p.ix Preface (ix) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 3 months ago

the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

xiii

the family complex constituted by the teleologies of historical progress in the bourgeois era

—p.xiii Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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the family complex constituted by the teleologies of historical progress in the bourgeois era

—p.xiii Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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skeptical, tending to doubt

xiv

incorporating in the knowledge process, in a reflexive but open or even aporetic fashion, the very conflictuality that it sought to explain

—p.xiv Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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incorporating in the knowledge process, in a reflexive but open or even aporetic fashion, the very conflictuality that it sought to explain

—p.xiv Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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(adjective) depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss / (adjective) relating to luck and especially to bad luck

xv

completely displacing the question by inventing the ‘aleatory materialism’ of his last texts

—p.xv Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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completely displacing the question by inventing the ‘aleatory materialism’ of his last texts

—p.xv Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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relating to or denoting the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (noun or adj)

xvi

the philosophy of Marx – which I conceived as a problematic open to all kinds of transformations, reformulations and extrapolations, whose starting point is not the oblivion of Marx’s words and sentences but their intrinsic vacillation – and Marxism – an intellectual and institutional historical phenomenon, circumscribed in time by the end of the historical cycle of organization of the labour movement and class struggle

—p.xvi Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 3 months ago

the philosophy of Marx – which I conceived as a problematic open to all kinds of transformations, reformulations and extrapolations, whose starting point is not the oblivion of Marx’s words and sentences but their intrinsic vacillation – and Marxism – an intellectual and institutional historical phenomenon, circumscribed in time by the end of the historical cycle of organization of the labour movement and class struggle

—p.xvi Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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(noun) the Marxist theory that maintains the material basis of a reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and the priority of matter over mind

1

dialectical materialism’, a relatively late term and one inspired by the use Engels had made of various of Marx’s formulations

Marx never used this term (he used "dialectical method"); neither did Engels ("materialist dialectic")

—p.1 Marxist Philosophy or Marx’s Philosophy? (1) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 3 months ago

dialectical materialism’, a relatively late term and one inspired by the use Engels had made of various of Marx’s formulations

Marx never used this term (he used "dialectical method"); neither did Engels ("materialist dialectic")

—p.1 Marxist Philosophy or Marx’s Philosophy? (1) by Étienne Balibar
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(noun) a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse / (noun) a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot / (noun) break interruption / (noun) a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody

4

The caesura effected by Marx has been more or less clearly acknowledged, more or less willingly accepted; it has even given rise to violent refutations and strenuous attempts at neutralization

on Marx as a writer who has transformed philosophy

—p.4 Marxist Philosophy or Marx’s Philosophy? (1) by Étienne Balibar
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The caesura effected by Marx has been more or less clearly acknowledged, more or less willingly accepted; it has even given rise to violent refutations and strenuous attempts at neutralization

on Marx as a writer who has transformed philosophy

—p.4 Marxist Philosophy or Marx’s Philosophy? (1) by Étienne Balibar
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poetic misreading or misprision

7

metaphorical expression in the doctrine of the clinamen or random ‘swerving’ of atoms

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—p.7 Marxist Philosophy or Marx’s Philosophy? (1) by Étienne Balibar
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metaphorical expression in the doctrine of the clinamen or random ‘swerving’ of atoms

idk

—p.7 Marxist Philosophy or Marx’s Philosophy? (1) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 3 months ago

relating to or denoting the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (noun or adj)

7

The presentation of Marxism as a world-view long ago coalesced around the formula, the ‘three sources of Marxism’: German philosophy, French socialism and British political economy.

—p.7 Marxist Philosophy or Marx’s Philosophy? (1) by Étienne Balibar
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The presentation of Marxism as a world-view long ago coalesced around the formula, the ‘three sources of Marxism’: German philosophy, French socialism and British political economy.

—p.7 Marxist Philosophy or Marx’s Philosophy? (1) by Étienne Balibar
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relating to stone and gems and the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing

13

A series of aphorisms that here outline a critical argument, there advance a lapidary proposition and what is, at times, almost a slogan.

—p.13 Changing the World: From Praxis to Production (13) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 3 months ago

A series of aphorisms that here outline a critical argument, there advance a lapidary proposition and what is, at times, almost a slogan.

—p.13 Changing the World: From Praxis to Production (13) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 3 months ago