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French philosopher Louis Pierre Althusser (1918 -1990) helped
define the politico-theoretical conjuncture of pre- and post-1968.
Today, there is a recrudescence of interest in his thought,
especially in light of his later work, published in English as
Philosophy of the Encounter (Verso, 2006). This has led to renewed
debates on the reformulation of conflicting notions of materialism,
on the event as both philosophical concept and political
construction, and on the nature of politics and the political.
Max Weber?s Theory Of Personality argues that the concept and problematic of personality plays a pivotal role within these works. Providing a detailed reconstruction of this concept within Weber?s systematic studies of world religions as well as throughout his methodological and political writings, this book shows its complex development within three strictly related problematics associated with Weber?s influential comparative historical sociology and theory of social action, individuation, politics and orientalism.
Rethinking the central categories of Marx's work, this study provides a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development. By integrating the paradigm of the spatialisation of time with that of the temporalisation of space, Tomba shows that an adequate historiographical paradigm for capitalism must consider the plurality of temporal layers that come into conflict in modernity.
Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as "femonationalism." She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western societies and as oppressors of women, and by emphasizing the need to rescue Muslim and migrant women, these groups use gender equality to justify their racist rhetoric and policies. This practice also serves an economic function. Farris analyzes how neoliberal civic integration policies and feminist groups funnel Muslim and non-western migrant women into the segregating domestic and caregiving industries, all the while claiming to promote their emancipation. In the Name of Women's Rights documents the links between racism, feminism, and the ways in which non-western women are instrumentalized for a variety of political and economic purposes.
Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as "femonationalism." She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western societies and as oppressors of women, and by emphasizing the need to rescue Muslim and migrant women, these groups use gender equality to justify their racist rhetoric and policies. This practice also serves an economic function. Farris analyzes how neoliberal civic integration policies and feminist groups funnel Muslim and non-western migrant women into the segregating domestic and caregiving industries, all the while claiming to promote their emancipation. In the Name of Women's Rights documents the links between racism, feminism, and the ways in which non-western women are instrumentalized for a variety of political and economic purposes.
Marx's thought is being re-appropriated and re-interpreted by a new generation. In Returns of Marxism, a wide-ranging collection, scholar-activists from around the world return to Marx, but they do so in a way that avoids a dogmatic approach to his writing - focusing instead on what is of relevance to today's struggles against capitalism.
French philosopher Louis Pierre Althusser (1918 -1990) helped
define the politico-theoretical conjuncture of pre- and post-1968.
Today, there is a recrudescence of interest in his thought,
especially in light of his later work, published in English as
Philosophy of the Encounter (Verso, 2006). This has led to renewed
debates on the reformulation of conflicting notions of materialism,
on the event as both philosophical concept and political
construction, and on the nature of politics and the political.
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