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Marxism and Phenomenology: The Dialectical Horizons of Critique,
edited by Bryan Smyth and Richard Westerman, offers new
perspectives on the possibility of a philosophical outlook that
combines Marxism and phenomenology in the critique of capitalism.
Although Marxism's focus on impersonal social structures and
phenomenology's concern with lived experience can make these
traditions appear conceptually incompatible, the potential critical
force of a theoretical reconciliation inspired several attempts in
the twentieth century to articulate a phenomenological Marxism.
Updating and extending this approach, the contributors to this
volume identify and develop new and previously overlooked
connections between the traditions, offering new perspectives on
Marx, Husserl, and Heidegger; exploring themes such as alienation,
reification, and ecology; and examining the intersection of Marxism
and phenomenology in figures such as Michel Henry, Walter Benjamin,
and Frantz Fanon. These glimpses of a productive reconciliation of
the respective strengths of phenomenology and Marxism offer
promising possibilities for illuminating and resolving the
increasingly intense social crises of capitalism in the
twenty-first century.
Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political
thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic
thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius
Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Jacques Ranciere, Etienne Balibar, and
Miguel Abensour. The essays in this collection connect these
writers through their shared contribution to the idea that division
and difference in politics can be perceived as productive,
creative, and fundamentally democratic. The questions they raise
regarding equality and emancipation in a democratic society will be
of interest to those studying social and political thought or
democratic activist movements like the Occupy movements and Idle No
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