Thinking with Marx Today, Volume 2 : "Man?" /

Instead of abstract "man," Marx argued that there is an ensemble of societal relations that underpins social formations of various kinds as well as a variety of forms of individuality. In this second volume of Thinking with Marx Today, Lucien Sève presents what he calls Marx's revolut...

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Main Author: Sève, Lucien (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 357.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |t Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 A Revolution in Anthropology -- 1 An Introductory Survey -- 1 In Search of Biography -- 2 Sartre: The Unpleasant Surprises of the 'Original Project' -- 3 Politzer: Towards a Psychology 'Embedded in the Economy' -- 4 Marx: An Entirely New Approach to the Psychological -- 5 Historical Essence of the General Figures of Individuality -- 6 Drive and Desire: The Social Genesis of the Psychological -- 7 Capacities: The Key Idea of Objectivation -- 8 Time and Biography -- 9 Historical Time and the 'Human Condition' -- 2 Philosophical Approaches -- 1 No Anthropological Revolution without a Philosophical Revolution -- 2 The Theses on Feuerbach: Goodbye to 'Man' -- 3 The Traps of 'Hominism' -- 4 The Use and Misuse of Abstraction -- 5 What the Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach Says When Read without Misinterpretation -- 6 The Key Question of the Essence -- 7 On the Essentiality of 'Social Relations' -- 8 On Praxis -- 9 Philosophy of Praxis or Materialism of Tätigkeit -- 3 Marxian Anthropology and Its Fundamental Concepts -- 1 The Characteristics of Humanity -- 2 The Processes of Hominisation -- 3 Human Activity and Its Mediators -- 4 'The Ensemble of Social Relations' as Objective Humanity -- 5 Mind and Thing-Form -- 6 The Human World and Its Corollary: Individual Hominisation -- 7 Aneignung and Its Effects -- 8 Historical Forms of Individuality -- 9 Figures of Individuality and Forms of Individuation -- 10 Althusser and the 'Forms of Individuality' -- 11 Is Theoretical Anthropology a 'Mirage'? -- 4 Questions and Additions -- 1 Is Marx Truly Innovative? -- 2 A Fundamentally Post-hegelian Conception -- 3 Points of Agreement and Disagreement Concerning the 'Human Essence' -- 4 The Ambiguity of Anti-Essentialism -- 5 A Puzzling Ignorance -- 6 And That is Why Your Marxism is Blind -- 7 A Careless Refutation -- 8 A Highly Structural Obfuscation -- 9 Productive Activities and Signifying Activities: Quite Distinct Practices -- 10 The Idea That 'Everything Is a Language' and Its Effects -- 5 Objections and Responses -- 1 A Missing Theory of the 'Superstructures'? -- 2 On the Meaning of an Objection -- 3 Naturalism: Substitute for Historical Materialism -- 4 Under-Estimation of the Natural in 'Man'? -- 5 On Some Naturalist Mistakes in Marx -- 6 Marx and the Idea of 'Human Nature' -- 7 On 'Anthropological Invariants' -- 8 An Implausible Hypothesis -- 9 The Illusion of Biological Materialism -- 10 Does Marx Reduce the Psychological Subject to the Social Individual? -- 11 A Politically Disturbing Conception? -- 12 Marx and Human Rights -- Part 2 An Approach That Is Still Relevant -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 6 Critique: Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and Primatology -- 1 Nietzsche and 'The Death of Man' -- 2 How Nietzsche Thinks 'Woman' -- 3 Feminism Is the Enemy -- 4 Anthropology Structured by Bad Abstraction -- 5 The Superman and His Doubles, the Sub-men -- 6 Is God Truly Dead in Nietzsche? -- 7 Freud's Innovation -- 8 Obsolete Biological Foundation -- 9 Freudianism Does Not Have the Anthropology It Deserves -- 10 Freud and Marx -- 11 How Should We Read Heidegger? -- 12 An A-critical Critique of Humanism -- 13 The Worst 'Oblivion' -- 14 Anthropoid Apes -- 15 Erasing the Boundary between Animal and Human -- 16 The Significance of Erasing the Boundary between Animal and Human -- 7 The Heuristic Example of Vygotsky's Work -- 1 Productive Perspectives for All the Human Sciences -- 2 The Example of Vygotsky -- 3 Ape, Tool, and Sign -- 4 Vygotsky's Revolution in Anthropology -- 5 A New Psychology -- 6 Prophetic Hypotheses on Cerebral Functioning -- 7 Vygotsky the Educationalist -- 8 Avant-Garde Views in Defectology -- 9 Thoughts in the Grip of Prejudice -- 10 Leontiev's Contributions -- 11 Open Research -- 12 Vygotsky's Limitations -- 13 Truly Unlimited Potential -- 8 A Critical Examination of Man in Marxist Theory and the Psychology of Personality -- 1 Politzer: Another Critique of Psychology -- 2 Freudianism between Discovery and Illusion -- 3 Concrete Psychology: True and False Problems -- 4 Moments of Research -- 5 Anticipatory Works -- 6 The Structure of the Field of the Sciences of 'Man' -- 7 Two Paradoxes and Their Solution -- 8 On the Form of a Science of the Singular -- 9 What Is Personality? -- 10 Outline of Content -- 11 A Very Mixed Reception -- 12 Towards an Unlimited Debate -- 13 What Knowledge of Individuality? -- 14 Three Objections -- 9 The 'Return of Biography'? -- 1 Sartre: Understanding a Life 'in Interiority' -- 2 Gustave Flaubert and His 'Original Project' -- 3 Strengths and Weaknesses of a Biography 'In Interiority' -- 4 Bourdieu: Accounting for a Life Through Its 'Fields' -- 5 From the Biographical Illusion to the Biographical Elision -- 6 Le Goff: How to Write a Historical Biography Today? -- 7 Daniel Bertaux: Again on 'Life History' -- 8 The Social Sciences Deprived of Psychology -- 9 Marxian Contributions and New Research Prospects -- 10 A Crucial Task: Think Personality Anew -- 1 Identification -- 2 With Freud, beyond Freud -- 3 With Marx, beyond Marx -- 4 Genesis of Personality -- 5 Alienation -- 6 We Should Study Capital To Think Alienation -- 7 Alienation and Personality -- 8 Once Again on the Principles of Use-Time -- 9 Personality and Biography: What Autonomy? -- 10 Do We Freely Think What We Think? -- 11 Intellectual Biography -- 12 Towards a Critique of the Idea of Sublimation -- 13 Reversal and Autonomy -- 14 Rethinking Ideas on Ageing -- 15 The Life That Dies and the Life That Does Not Die -- 16 From Personality to the Person -- 17 Historical Urgency: Saving the Human Planet -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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