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Afterword: Philosophical Anthropology or Ontology of Relations? Exploring the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach

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Balibar, É. (2017). Afterword: Philosophical Anthropology or Ontology of Relations? Exploring the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach. In Balibar, É. The Philosophy of Marx. Verso, pp. 123-158

a slip of the pen

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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 by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 2 months ago

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 by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 2 months ago
134

[...] in the case of the human species, which was thereby distinguished from every other species, individuals possess another essential attribute, consisting in their consciousness of their relationship to the common kind. Human beings are not only defined by membership of the human race but by their consciousness of belonging to it (an idea Marx himself abundantly employed in earlier texts). This enables them to construct a moral community on the basis of such consciousness.

—p.134 by Étienne Balibar 7 years, 2 months ago

[...] in the case of the human species, which was thereby distinguished from every other species, individuals possess another essential attribute, consisting in their consciousness of their relationship to the common kind. Human beings are not only defined by membership of the human race but by their consciousness of belonging to it (an idea Marx himself abundantly employed in earlier texts). This enables them to construct a moral community on the basis of such consciousness.

—p.134 by Étienne Balibar 7 years, 2 months ago

(noun) a sentence or phrase (as “nothing is good enough for you”) that can be interpreted in more than one way

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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 by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 2 months ago

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 by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 2 months ago

give or assign a value to, especially a higher value: "The prophets valorized history"

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

—p.155 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 by Étienne Balibar
notable
7 years, 2 months ago