Daily Archives: November 9, 2024

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Jean L. Cohen | Marx and Lefort: “On the Jewish Question” and “Politics and Human Rights”

Many years ago, I wrote a book on Marx and endorsed the Lefortian analysis that rejected the reduction of civil to “bourgeois” society, embraced the emancipatory potentials unleashed in both civil society and the formally (if insufficiently) democratic state. Two developments since then call for more thinking on these topics. [Read more here…]