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Offers a contemporary perspective on one of Freud's most famous
cases * Brings both a psychoanalytic and philosophical perspective
to the case * Draws on the work of Ferenczi, who is increasingly
popular in contemporary psychoanalysis
Art In Its Time takes a close look at the way in which art has become integral to the everyday 'ordinary' life of modern society. It explores the prevalent notion of art as transcending its historical moment, and argues that art cannot be separated from the everyday as it often provides material to represent social struggles and class, to explore sexuality, and to think about modern industry and our economic relationships.
The way we view art is a phenomenon of modern society and its social order. It is only in the 18th century that we see the exaltation of art through the rise of museums, today sites of mass pilgrimage and focal to modern activity. Paul Mattick explores many of the ideas that surround art in this century including modernism, the sublime and beautiful, the relationship between art and money and particularly philanthropy in the US, the role of photography in producing the aesthetic 'aura' and the limits of political art.
This book is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on the role of art, particularly as modern art continues to depart from traditional notions of what art is. Providing a much-needed social history of art, Art In Its Time will be of interest to all students of art theory and art history.
Art In Its Time takes a close look at the way in which art has become integral to the everyday 'ordinary' life of modern society. It explores the prevalent notion of art as transcending its historical moment, and argues that art cannot be separated from the everyday as it often provides material to represent social struggles and class, to explore sexuality, and to think about modern industry and our economic relationships.
The way we view art is a phenomenon of modern society and its social order. It is only in the 18th century that we see the exaltation of art through the rise of museums, today sites of mass pilgrimage and focal to modern activity. Paul Mattick explores many of the ideas that surround art in this century including modernism, the sublime and beautiful, the relationship between art and money and particularly philanthropy in the US, the role of photography in producing the aesthetic 'aura' and the limits of political art.
This book is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on the role of art, particularly as modern art continues to depart from traditional notions of what art is. Providing a much-needed social history of art, Art In Its Time will be of interest to all students of art theory and art history.
This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting
working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of
Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower
working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops
a theory of a council communism through his survey of the history
of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges Bolshevik
politics: especially their perspectives on questions of Party and
Class, and the role of Trade Unions. Mattick argues that a??The
revolutions which succeeded, first of all, in Russia and China,
were not proletarian revolutions in the Marxist sense, leading to
the a??association of free and equal producersa??, but
state-capitalist revolutions, which were objectively unable to
issue into socialism. Marxism served here as a mere ideology to
justify the rise of modified capitalist systems, which were no
longer determined by market competition but controlled by way of
the authoritarian state. Based on the peasantry, but designed with
accelerated industrialisation to create an industrial proletariat,
they were ready to abolish the traditional bourgeoisie but not
capital as a social relationship. This type of capitalism had not
been foreseen by Marx and the early Marxists, even though they
advocated the capture of state-power to overthrow the bourgeoisie
a?? but only in order to abolish the state itself.a??
Originally published in 1978, the essays in this text discuss
issues surrounding inflation, governmental roles in economic
matters and varying economic systems and theories with a particular
lean towards discussing capitalism evaluating how all of these
factors affect the economic state of America. Mattick takes on the
view that Economics is not an exact science and calls into question
its predictive powers and as such, emphasises the issues that he
felt needed most attention at the time of writing. This title will
be of interest to students of economics and politics.
This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting
working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of
Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower
working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops
a theory of a council communism through his survey of the history
of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges Bolshevik
politics: especially their perspectives on questions of Party and
Class, and the role of Trade Unions. Mattick argues that a??The
revolutions which succeeded, first of all, in Russia and China,
were not proletarian revolutions in the Marxist sense, leading to
the a??association of free and equal producersa??, but
state-capitalist revolutions, which were objectively unable to
issue into socialism. Marxism served here as a mere ideology to
justify the rise of modified capitalist systems, which were no
longer determined by market competition but controlled by way of
the authoritarian state. Based on the peasantry, but designed with
accelerated industrialisation to create an industrial proletariat,
they were ready to abolish the traditional bourgeoisie but not
capital as a social relationship. This type of capitalism had not
been foreseen by Marx and the early Marxists, even though they
advocated the capture of state-power to overthrow the bourgeoisie
a?? but only in order to abolish the state itself.a??
The last year has seen the return of inflation as a preoccupation
of political decision-makers, economists and the general public.
After two decades of wondering why inflation was so low, despite
vast economic stimulus, economists were surprised by the recent
surge of price increases. Despite disagreement about what exactly
is happening in the economy, there is unanimity that growth must be
slowed in order to control inflation. To focus on inflation's
return, Paul Mattick looks at past and present, placing current
events in the context of capitalism's history. Exploring in novel
terms the nature of money itself, he provides a concise,
jargon-free understanding of recent inflation, and official efforts
to control it, illuminating the state of our contemporary economy.
Originally published in 1978, the essays in this text discuss
issues surrounding inflation, governmental roles in economic
matters and varying economic systems and theories with a particular
lean towards discussing capitalism evaluating how all of these
factors affect the economic state of America. Mattick takes on the
view that Economics is not an exact science and calls into question
its predictive powers and as such, emphasises the issues that he
felt needed most attention at the time of writing. This title will
be of interest to students of economics and politics.
Originally published in 1978, the essays in this text discuss
issues surrounding inflation, governmental roles in economic
matters and varying economic systems and theories with a particular
lean towards discussing capitalism evaluating how all of these
factors affect the economic state of America. Mattick takes on the
view that Economics is not an exact science and calls into question
its predictive powers and as such, emphasises the issues that he
felt needed most attention at the time of writing. This title will
be of interest to students of economics and politics.
Keynesian economics claimed to have overcome the problem of
economic depressions. However, as Mattick argues that crises are
inherent within capitalism and that neither the market nor
Keynesianism can stop "the steady deterioration of the economy".
Written in 1974, Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory is one of
Mattick's most valuable contributions to the Marxist critique of
political economy and radical theory in general.
Drawing upon released documents, memoirs and party-history works,
the process and impact of the political campaigns in China between
1950 and 1965 is documented. Complete with extensive interviews
with Chinese scholars and former officials, the book reviews the
findings of the first edition.
DOES DISCOURSE HAVE A 'STRUCTURE'? HARRIS'S REVOLUTION IN
LINGUISTICS As a freshman back in 1947 I discovered that within the
various academic divisions and subdivisions of the University of
Pennsylvania there existed a something (it was not a Department,
but a piece of the Anthropology Department) called 'Linguistic
Analysis'. I was an untalented but enthusiastic student of Greek
and a slightly more talented student of German, as well as the son
of a translator, so the idea of 'Linguistic Analysis' attracted me,
sight unseen, and I signed up for a course. It turned out that
'Linguistic Analysis' was essentially a graduate program - I and
another undergraduate called Noam Chomsky were the only two
undergraduates who took courses in Linguistic Analysis - and also
that it was essentially a one-man show: a professor named Zellig
Harris taught all the courses with the aid of graduate Teaching
Fellows (and possibly - I am not sure - one Assistant Professor).
The technicalities of Linguistic Analysis were formidable, and I
never did master them all. But the powerful intellect and
personality of Zellig Harris drew me like a lodestone, and,
although I majored in Philosophy, I took every course there was to
take in Linguistic Analysis from then until my gradua tion. What
'Linguistics' was like before Zellig Harris is something not many
people care to remember today."
DOES DISCOURSE HAVE A 'STRUCTURE'? HARRIS'S REVOLUTION IN
LINGUISTICS As a freshman back in 1947 I discovered that within the
various academic divisions and subdivisions of the University of
Pennsylvania there existed a something (it was not a Department,
but a piece of the Anthropology Department) called 'Linguistic
Analysis'. I was an untalented but enthusiastic student of Greek
and a slightly more talented student of German, as well as the son
of a translator, so the idea of 'Linguistic Analysis' attracted me,
sight unseen, and I signed up for a course. It turned out that
'Linguistic Analysis' was essentially a graduate program - I and
another undergraduate called Noam Chomsky were the only two
undergraduates who took courses in Linguistic Analysis - and also
that it was essentially a one-man show: a professor named Zellig
Harris taught all the courses with the aid of graduate Teaching
Fellows (and possibly - I am not sure - one Assistant Professor).
The technicalities of Linguistic Analysis were formidable, and I
never did master them all. But the powerful intellect and
personality of Zellig Harris drew me like a lodestone, and,
although I majored in Philosophy, I took every course there was to
take in Linguistic Analysis from then until my gradua tion. What
'Linguistics' was like before Zellig Harris is something not many
people care to remember today."
In this volume, international experts analyse the politics of
conventional military policy and military relations among the
Soviet successor states. The work analyses various national
perspectives on security and approaches to military affairs
How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are
social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of
the natural sciences? In Social Knowledge, Paul Mattick argues that
the well-known difficulties of the social sciences -- in particular
the predictive and explanatory failures of economics -- are due not
to an inherent resistance of social life to scientific explanation,
but to the failure of social scientists to include their own
categories of social explanation among the objects of scientific
study. Looking at Marx as an anthropological theorist, Mattick
compares his critique of political economy with Evans-Pritchard 's
analysis of Azande witchcraft. Just as the British anthropologist
attempted to explain Azande ideas and rituals in terms of their
place in native life, Marx wished to explain the continued faith in
economics -- despite its striking weakness as a science -- in terms
of the central role played by this system of ideas in the daily
lives of natives of capitalist society. This comparison leads to
the questions about the nature of scientific thinking and its
relation to our everyday knowledge of social reality that are the
subject of this book. Second edition, with a new Preface by the
author. The first edition was published in 1986 by Hutchinson, ISBN
9780091654603.
Theory as Critique, while discussing many central issues of Marxian
theory, has two main emphases: First, as the title suggests, it
takes seriously Capital's claim to be a critique of economic
theory, rather than a contribution to political economy.
Understanding what this means, it shows, goes far to unravelling
many difficulties traditionally found in Marx's book, from the
nature of his theory of class to the 'transformation problem'.
Secondly, Mattick's volume carefully explores how to bridge the gap
between the extreme abstraction of Marx's ideas and the complex
reality that they are intended to help us understand.
This collection of essays explores the rise of aesthetics as a
response to, and as a part of, the reshaping of the arts in modern
society. The theories of art developed under the name of
'aesthetics' in the eighteenth century have traditionally been
understood as contributions to a field of study in existence since
the time of Plato. If art is a practice to be found in all human
societies, then the philosophy of art is the search for universal
features of that practice, which can be stated in definitions of
art and beauty. However, art as we know it - the system of 'fine
arts' - is largely peculiar to modern society. Aesthetics, far from
being a perennial discipline, emerged in an effort both to
understand and to shape this new social practice. These essays
share the conviction that aesthetic ideas can be fully understood
when seen not only in relation to intellectual and social contexts,
but as themselves constructed in history.
Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives.
A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is
needed to empower working people and to focus control over society.
Mattick develops a theory of a council communism through his survey
of the history of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges
Bolshevik politics: especially their perspectives on questions of
Party and Class, and the role of Trade Unions. Mattick argues that
a??The revolutions which succeeded, first of all, in Russia and
China, were not proletarian revolutions in the Marxist sense,
leading to the a??association of free and equal producersa??, but
state-capitalist revolutions, which were objectively unable to
issue into socialism. Marxism served here as a mere ideology to
justify the rise of modified capitalist systems, which were no
longer determined by market competition but controlled by way of
the authoritarian state. Based on the peasantry, but designed with
accelerated industrialisation to create an industrial proletariat,
they were ready to abolish the traditional bourgeoisie but not
capital as a social relationship. This type of capitalism had not
been foreseen by Marx and the early Marxists, even though they
advocated the capture of state-power to overthrow the bourgeoisie
a?? but only in order to abolish the state itself.a??
This collection of essays explores the rise of aesthetics as a response to, and as a part of, the reshaping of the arts in modern society. The theories of art developed under the name of ‘aesthetics’ in the eighteenth century have traditionally been understood as contributions to a field of study in existence since the time of Plato. If art is a practice to be found in all human societies, then the philosophy of art is the search for universal features of that practice, which can be stated in definitions of art and beauty. However, art as we know it - the system of ‘fine arts’ - is largely peculiar to modern society. Aesthetics, far from being a perennial discipline, emerged in an effort both to understand and to shape this new social practice. These essays share the conviction that aesthetic ideas can be fully understood when seen not only in relation to intellectual and social contexts, but as themselves constructed in history.
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