Christoph Henning writes a concise history of misreadings of Marx in the 20th century. Focussing on German philosophy from Heidegger to Habermas, he also addresses the influence of Rawls and Neopragmatism, subsequently scrutinizing a previous history of Marx-interpretations that had served as the premises upon which these later works were based. Henning sketches a historical trajectory in which a theory of socialist politics enters the fields of ecomics, sociology, critical theory and theology, before finally - overloaded with intellectually dead freight - entering into philosophy. In so doing, he takes a hermeneutic approach to how misreadings in a specific field proliferate into further misreadings across a variety of fields, leading to an accumulation of questionable preconceptions. With the recent resurgence of interest in Marx, Henning's historical recursions make evident where and how academic Anti-Marxism had previously got it wrong. English translation of Philosophie nach Marx. 100 Jahre Marxrezeption und die rmative Sozialphilosophie der Gegenwart in der Kritik, Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2005.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
9004224270
ISBN-13
9789004224278
eBay Product ID (ePID)
194673285
Product Key Features
Author
Christoph Henning
Format
Laminated Cover, Hardback
Language
English & German
Topic
Philosophy
Genre
Philosophy
Dimensions
Weight
1158g
Height
240mm
Width
160mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Leiden
Spine
38mm
Series Part/Volume Number
No. 65
Series Title
Historical Materialism Book Series
Content Note
17 Black & White Tables
Translated by
Max Henninger
Author Biography
Christoph Henning, Ph.D. (2003), is a philosopher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has published widely on economic philosophy, Marxism, and critical theory, and recently wrote a book entitled Political Philosophy of Perfectionism.