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This collection focuses on a long-running debate over the logical
validity of Karl Marx's theory that exploitation is the exclusive
source of capitalists' profits. The "Fundamental Marxian Theorem"
was long thought to have shown that orthodox Marxian economics
succeeds in replicating Marx's conclusion. The debate begins with
Andrew Kliman's disproof of that claim. On one side of the debate,
representing orthodox Marxian economics, are contributions by Simon
Mohun and Roberto Veneziani. Although they concede that their
simultaneist models cannot replicate Marx's theory of profit in all
cases, they insist that this is as good as it gets. On the other
side, representing the temporal single-system interpretation of
Marx's theory (TSSI), are contributions by Kliman and Alan Freeman.
They argue that his theory is logically valid, since it can indeed
be replicated when it is understood in accordance with the TSSI.
While the debate initially focused on logical concerns, issues of
pluralism, truth, and scientificity increasingly assumed center
stage. In his introduction to the volume, Nick Potts situates the
debate in its historical context and argues forcefully that the
arguments of the orthodox Marxist economists, and the manner in
which those arguments were couched, were "suppressive and contrary
to scientific norms." The volume concludes with a 2014 debate, in
which many of the same issues re-surfaced, between the philosopher
Robert Paul Wolff and proponents of the TSSI.
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across
public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice
and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law
enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized
racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of
normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon
physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying
neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal
battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical
arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic
preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic
connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.
This collection focuses on a long-running debate over the logical
validity of Karl Marx's theory that exploitation is the exclusive
source of capitalists' profits. The "Fundamental Marxian Theorem"
was long thought to have shown that orthodox Marxian economics
succeeds in replicating Marx's conclusion. The debate begins with
Andrew Kliman's disproof of that claim. On one side of the debate,
representing orthodox Marxian economics, are contributions by Simon
Mohun and Roberto Veneziani. Although they concede that their
simultaneist models cannot replicate Marx's theory of profit in all
cases, they insist that this is as good as it gets. On the other
side, representing the temporal single-system interpretation of
Marx's theory (TSSI), are contributions by Kliman and Alan Freeman.
They argue that his theory is logically valid, since it can indeed
be replicated when it is understood in accordance with the TSSI.
While the debate initially focused on logical concerns, issues of
pluralism, truth, and scientificity increasingly assumed center
stage. In his introduction to the volume, Nick Potts situates the
debate in its historical context and argues forcefully that the
arguments of the orthodox Marxist economists, and the manner in
which those arguments were couched, were "suppressive and contrary
to scientific norms." The volume concludes with a 2014 debate, in
which many of the same issues re-surfaced, between the philosopher
Robert Paul Wolff and proponents of the TSSI.
Das Thema der kollektiven Autor:innenschaft, bereits in den 1990er
Jahren mit Blick auf die damals neuen technologischen
Möglichkeiten breiter diskutiert, scheint aktuell erneut auf ein
wachsendes Interesse zu stoĂźen, etwa unter dem Stichwort der
›Kollaboration‹. Der vorliegende Band fragt nach der
Schwellenfunktion der digitalen Wende, die sich in eine Folge von
weiteren medialen, epistemischen, ästhetischen und sozialen
Schwellen und historisierbaren Konstellationen einreiht, die
Konzepte von kollektiver Autorschaft/Autor:innenschaft
hervorgebracht und grundsätzlich verändert haben. Die
partizipatorische Kultur sowie Verfahren der »produsage«, die
sich in den medialen Konvergenzbewegungen der jĂĽngeren
Vergangenheit feststellen lassen, haben Zurechnungsstrategien von
Autorschaft, an denen lange festgehalten wurde, auĂźer Kurs
gebracht. Dazu sind auch die in der Tradition der Avantgarden
stehenden Projekte der generativen Codeliteratur zu zählen,
die sich von den auf und mittels Plattformen produzierten und
distribuierten Texten durch das vorausgesetzte Code-Wissen und den
gezielten Gebrauch digitaler Technik unterscheiden lassen. Wurde
die automatische Generierung von Text in der Vergangenheit oft als
Auslagerung von Autor:innenschaft auf die Maschine konzipiert,
rückt hier die Frage nach der »Arbeitsteilung zwischen Mensch und
Maschine« in den Vordergrund.
An intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a
White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found
his understanding of the world transformed by the experience.
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal
meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who
joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of
the world transformed by the experience. The book begins with an
autobiographical narrative of the events leading up to Wolff's
transfer from a Philosophy Department to the W. E. B. Du Bois
Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of
Massachusetts, and his experiences in the Department with his new
colleagues, all of whom had come to Academia from the Civil Rights
Movement of the 1960s. Wolff discovered that the apparently simple
act of moving across campus to a new Department in a new building
worked a startling change in the way he saw himself, his
university, and his country. Reading as widely as possible to bring
himself up to speed in his new field of academic responsibility,
Wolff realized after a bit that his picture of American history and
culture was undergoing an irreversible metamorphosis. America, he
realized, has from its inception been a land both of Freedom and of
Bondage -- Freedom for the few, and then forthose who are White,
Bondage at first for the many, and then for those who are not
White. Slavery is thus not an aberration, an accident, a Peculiar
Institution -- it is the essence and core of the American
experience. Wolff's optimistic outlook leads him to express the
hope that acknowledging the realities of America's racial history
and present will begin to tear down the formidable barrier to
change. He sees this refashioning of the American story as a first
step toward the crafting of a truly liberatory project. Robert Paul
Wolff is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst and the author of numerous books, including
Introductory Philosophy and In Defense of Anarchism.
"A deep and provocative discussion of some of the most fundamental
issues in political philosophy, written crisply, with candor, in a
style that I find very winning. It is a most useful book, and a
very good one."--Carl Cohen, author of "Communism, Fascism, and
Democracy
"A provocative and engrossing introduction to current questions
of political legitimacy, consent, deliberative democracy, the basis
of majority rule, workers collectives, etc., that have been taken
up by contemporary political theorists."--Georgia Warnke, author of
"Justice and Interpretation
Karl Marx's great work, Capital, has intrigued and puzzled readers
for more than a century by its mystifyingly intricate arguments and
dramatic literary embellishments. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff
dispels much of the mystery surrounding Capital by providing a
literary-philosophical analysis of the text and of Marx's
intentions.
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