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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2026.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.