In the context of this seminar, specific issues related to the broader subject of Marxist philosophy will be examined. They will be discussed and will constitute suggested topics for seminar papers and presentations. The aim of the course is to delve into these questions and critically confront important texts and theoretical interventions within this theoretical intervention.
Indicative topics
- The critique of politics and how it is transformed through the development of the project
of Marx. - Philosophical readings of Capital
- Marx and Hegel: continuity or intersection?;
- Paths of Marxism in the USSR: the case of Ilyenkov
- The Marxism of the Second International
- The controversy over revisionism: Kautsky, Luxemburg, Bernstein
- Gramsci and the Modern Hegemon
- Lukacs and the proletariat's perspective
- Fredric Jameson and the call for continuous historicization
- Marxism and phenomenology
- Marxist humanism
- Etienne Balibar's attempt to reflect on a new practice of
policy - Althusser's confrontation with the crisis of Marxism
- The meeting of gender and class: Marxist feminism
- Foucault and Marx: compatibilities and incompatibilities
- Post-Marxist positions: the work of Laclau and Mouffe
