Gary K. Browning

A globalist ideology of post‐Marxism? Hardt and Negri's Empire

Hardt and Negri interpret contemporary sovereignty and politics in the light of a theory of contemporary globalization that is taken to supersede Marxism and former ideological standpoints of the Left. In particular, Hardt and Negri highlight how their reading of empire and multitude breaks with the teleology of Marxism and accepts the openness of events. They advertise the novelty, which is held to consist in their recognition of a thoroughly socialized and globalized world in which there exists no predetermined historical subject of liberation. Hardt and Negri, however, exemplify the continuity between Marxist and post‐Marxist ideological standpoints. The continuity between classical Marxism and Hardt and Negris notion of empire and its supersession resides in the affinity between the normative values that shape Marxs reading of history and the emancipatory character of the multitude, which frames the notion of empire. Hardt and Negri offer a radical Leftist reading of globalization that contrasts with alternative ideological notions that inform more orthodox interpretations of globalization, and thereby points to the ideological character of theories of globalization.

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Critical and post-critical political economy

Introduction Hegel and the Political Economy of Modernity Marx and Critical Political Economy Foucault and Political Economy Gorz and Critical Political Economy Baudrillard, Dialectics and Political Economy Lyotard: Postmodernism, Capital and Critique Fraser, Recognition and Redistribution Hardt and Negri: Empire, Multitude and Globalization Conclusion Index

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reappraisal

Commenting upon Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit involves a process of reappraisal. Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit appraises the claims of consciousness, and these claims are judged ultimately in the light of the achievement of a self-sustaining mode of consciousness. A review of Hegel’s phenomenological understanding of consciousness if it is not to be conducted according to external criteria, is bound to track and evaluate Hegel’s appraisal of consciousness and, in doing so, will be undertaking a reappraisal of Hegel’s assessment of consciousness.

Global Theory from Kant to Hardt and Negri

Introduction Kant: Cosmopolitan Reason, Progress and Global Responsibility Hegel: Global Theory and Recognition Marx and Global Theory Global Theory: Transformation Global Cosmopolitanism Radical Global Theory Conclusion: Deconstructing Modern and Global Theory

Hegel on War, Recognition and Justice

Hegel’s account of war in the Philosophy of Right is a significant expression of Hegel’s understanding of the importance of mutual recognition in social and political life. Its deployment evokes and relates to Hegel’s account of the struggle for recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Just as the account in the Phenomenology of Spirit invokes an imagined emergency situation in the life and death struggle to highlight the existential importance of recognition, so war serves to underline the life and death issues at stake in the commitments of citizenship. War exhibits the fragility of social and political order and points to the overwhelming need of individuals to recognize the duties of citizenship. War, however, is only one mode in which citizens recognize themselves to be citizens, just as social recognition underpins the entire development of knowledge that is charted in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel’s emphasis upon recognition in his remarks on war and on institutional maintenance underpins his rejection of internationalism and his repudiation of cosmopolitan norms of justice. Justice, for Hegel, is about the maintenance and development of conditions of right in particular ethical communities.

Dialogues with contemporary political theorists

The book consists of a series of dialogues with pre-eminent contemporary political theorists, that are undertaken by political theorists who are currently interested in and engaged by their work, together with an introductory chapter. The dialogues deal with the influences upon and significant works of these major theorists, as well as their views on the current state of political theory and the significant issues of contemporary politics. The 12 theorists who are the focus of these dialogues represent major aspects of contemporary political theory, and are drawn from several areas of the globe. They include Dipesh Chakrabarty, Amartya Sen, Carole Pateman, R B J Walker and Quentin Skinner. What they have in common and reveal in these interviews are fascinating backgrounds and influences and highly individual perspectives on theory and politics. The upshot is a multi-faceted introduction to political theory today.

Lyotard: after and with Marx, within and against capital

This article examines Lyotards thought by means of a review of his conceptions of Marx and capital. Lyotard is taken to hold ambiguous views on both Marx and capital throughout his career. These ambiguities reflect his development of a post-Marxist standpoint. The ambiguous character of Lyotards reading of Marx and capital is heightened by the fact that the ways in which they are formulated vary in the course of his career. In criticizing Marx, Lyotard tends to assume an absolutist form of Marxism that abstracts from the variety of ways in which Marx can and has been interpreted. Likewise, Lyotard tends to misrecognize how he retains aspects of Marxs critique of capital, and hence does not explore the critical connections between his own standpoint and that of Marx.

Lyotard’s Hegel and the Dialectic of Modernity

Hegel is a central figure in the development of Lyotard’s philosophical and political standpoints. From the outset of his career, Hegel’s idealism epitomised what Lyotard consistently takes to be the ‘other’ of his own fast-moving thought. Hegel’s otherness is seen to be his rationalist essentialism against which Lyotard’s anti-essentialist and contrary standpoint is defined. Hegel’s philosophy is presumed by Lyotard to consist in the reflective imperialism of establishing understanding and mastery of the world. Lyotard’s goal as a philosopher and social theorist is to explode the imperial pretensions of rationalism. Throughout his career Lyotard worked at highlighting aspects of reality that resist the closure of explanation and thereby fail to be comprehended in the Hegelian network of concepts. In so doing, however, he displays a close knowledge of Hegel in that he purports to show how Hegel’s dialectic betrays its aim of explaining how different aspects of the whole lead inexorably to a single route of explanation by imposing an external methodology upon reality.

Introduction: Interpreting Murdoch—Truth and Love Revisited

This introduction recognises the breadth of Iris Murdoch’s thought. Murdoch was a prolific and dynamic thinker, who held expertise and interest in a number of areas including philosophy, politics, morality, art and literature. Her philosophical writings, novels and letters are of significance in conveying her thought on a variety of subjects. The various essays that compose this volume are seen as responding to the breadth of Murdoch’s thinking and also as dealing with the paradoxes that arise out of her concern to trace connections between distinct aspects of experience. The essays of the volume are described and shown to fit together. The Introduction ends by indicating how Murdoch’s late engagement with Heidegger reflects her concern to develop a unified sense of experience.