Toward A Radical Metaphysics Of Socialism Marx And Laruelle [Paperback]

This is a passionately engaged work that dramatizes the radical stakes of Marxs and Laruelles projects while drawing creatively on the work of Butler, Firestone, and Haraway along the way. It is at once the best possible introduction to Laruelles appropriation of Marx and a Marxian radicalization of Laruelles non-standard philosophy'. ~Ray Brassier Katerina Kolozova delivers the first accurate and comprehensive study of my interpretation of Marx in my book Introduction to Non-Marxism, and more generally, of contemporary Marxism. ... In vigorous fashion, Kolozova re-awakens Marxism and rescues it from its torpor. ~ Francois Laruelle Departing from the conventional readings of Karl Marxs Capital and other of his works, by way of Fran?ois Laruelles radicalization of concepts, Katerina Kolozova identifies a theoretical kernel in Marxs thought whose critical and interpretative force can be employed without reference to its subsequent interpretations in the philosophical mainstream. The latter entails a process of abstracting a philosophical legacy  or rather, of putting it in brackets  and then codifying a history of a learned interpretation established in supposed fidelity to the theoretical project of a master. Interpreting the master implies a mastery of doctrinal tools, which results in establishing a catechism of the Logos of the Master. And this catechism interferes, Kolozova argues, with more direct encounters with Marxs writings. As we know, Marxs rigorously descriptive language unravels the radical core of capitalist economic processes and, through that unraveling, also reveals capitalisms necessary exploitation and subjugation of human labor. Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism attempts to recuperate and emancipate the notion of metaphysics in this scenario by virtue of radicalizing thoughts encounter with the Real. Kolozova argues that this metaphysical drama is at the origin of the social and economic injustices of contemporary gl£