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This book, first published in 1977, presents for the first time a
serious and systematic assessment of Marx primarily as a
philosopher. It considers all major aspects of Marx's theory - its
methodology, its ontological dimensions, its approaches to the
descriptions of history and of societies and their economic
structures, its alleged predictions and its vision of the future -
as well as some of its intellectual antecedents and
twentieth-century heirs. The presentation of Marx's ideas attempts
to be at once faithful to them, as distinguished from their
reinterpretations by later 'Marxists', and yet novel in form and
language. From this unique standpoint, the book aims to bring the
student of philosophy and of political ideas to a closer
understanding of the intellectual foundations of Marx's Capital and
his writings in collaboration with Engels.
This book, first published in 1977, presents for the first time a
serious and systematic assessment of Marx primarily as a
philosopher. It considers all major aspects of Marx's theory - its
methodology, its ontological dimensions, its approaches to the
descriptions of history and of societies and their economic
structures, its alleged predictions and its vision of the future -
as well as some of its intellectual antecedents and
twentieth-century heirs. The presentation of Marx's ideas attempts
to be at once faithful to them, as distinguished from their
reinterpretations by later 'Marxists', and yet novel in form and
language. From this unique standpoint, the book aims to bring the
student of philosophy and of political ideas to a closer
understanding of the intellectual foundations of Marx's Capital and
his writings in collaboration with Engels.
Devoted to the most important American Continental philosopher of
his generation and one of the discipline's founding fathers, and
featuring some of the field's most distinguished luminaries, this
anthology constitutes a critical document in Continental
philosophy, reflecting its recent history, its present state, and
its debt to Calvin O. Schrag. Taking up themes central to Schrag's
own philosophical concerns, these essays refer throughout to his
salient ""interventions"" in the dialogue of late twentieth-century
thought characterized as ""postmodernity."" In doing so, all
contributors address, implicitly or directly, the question of
philosophy's role and responsibility, or ""task."" The volume
begins with an overview of this task and of Schrag's contributions
to it, written from the perspective of a resolute defender of the
phenomenological tradition that Schrag's work has extended and
reconfigured. The following essays are organized around the four
conceptual figures that are widely considered Schrag's most
significant and original philosophical achievements: transversal
rationality, the self after modernity, the fourth cultural value
sphere, and communicative praxis. Following and expanding on the
implications of these themes, the authors focus on topics ranging
from Cartesian rationality to Foucauldian rational relativism; from
transcendence in relation to the self to the Schragean self's
connections with discourse, action, and community; from religion's
disruptive presence in contemporary philosophy to recent
developments in the philosophy of language. Taken together, these
essays go beyond an appreciation of Calvin Schrag's contribution to
Continental philosophy to substantially elaborate upon and extend
that contribution.
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