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…]
On the Jewish Question
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In February 1844, Marx published two articles in the Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher: “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction” and “On the Jewish Question.” Together, these two articles push Marx, beyond the legal remedies that he had proposed in his 1842 articles on the thefts of wood, to call for revolution in Germany and human emancipation. This introduction begins to place these works in conversation with the writings of the French political philosopher Claude Lefort in preparation for our seminar with Professor Jean Louise Cohen of Columbia University. [Continue reading here…]