Alienation and action in the young Marx, Aristotle, and Arendt
In: Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 417-433
ISSN: 1467-8675
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In: Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 417-433
ISSN: 1467-8675
In: Historical materialism: research in critical marxist theory, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 229-262
ISSN: 1569-206X
Abstract
To make 'philosophy worldly' often requires an act of translation. In This Life, Martin Hägglund argues for the relevance of Marx to our contemporary lives. By way of a lively and sophisticated dialogue between philosophical interlocutors – including Hegel and Marx – Hägglund offers a compelling account of the relation between time, value and freedom. This Life translates current issues in academic philosophy into a popular register that does not reduce the complexity of the issues but shows what is at stake for our own lives. Hägglund provides a synthesis of Robert B. Pippin's normative reading of Hegel and the value-form critical theory of Moishe Postone's Marxism. Further, Hägglund's vision of freedom outflanks the political limitations of Pippin's Hegel and Postone's Marx while retaining the power of their analyses. I assess his interpretation of Hegel and critically examine the concept of value operative in This Life, and frame this question in terms of value-form theory.
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 157, Heft 1, S. 80-96
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
This article examines the relationship between Marx's Capital, Georg Lukács and Critical Theory through the prism of value-form theory. Marx's theorisation of value understands commodities as expressions of the historical form of social relations defined by capital. Products of human labour become values in capitalist production, defined by the abstract quality of undifferentiated quantities of labour-power, exchangeable through the universal character of the market. The social form of this process, Marx identifies as processing a fetish quality, where humans take on the thing-like character of commodities. The impact of this theorisation on Critical Theory has been considerable, beginning with Lukács' concept of reification. In Part I, I examine the challenge to Lukács' interpretation of Marx's Capital made by Gillian Rose. She draws attention to a misidentification of reification in Marx, suggesting a strong conceptual distinction between commodity-fetishism and reification. In their conceptual flattening, Rose contends that Lukács and Critical Theory generalised Marx's value-form theory, losing its speculative character. I argue that despite Rose's suggestion remaining unfulfilled, she helps illuminate important tensions between Marx's value theory and Critical Theory. This comparison allows in Part II for the beginning level of a speculative approach to Marx's Capital to be advanced.
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 472-476
ISSN: 1476-9336
In: Climate policy, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 433-450
ISSN: 1752-7457
In: Climate policy, Band 11, Heft 6, S. 1315-1336
ISSN: 1752-7457
In: Climate policy, Band 11, Heft 6, S. 1315-1336
ISSN: 1469-3062
World Affairs Online
In: Climate policy, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 147-165
ISSN: 1469-3062
World Affairs Online
In: Climate policy, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 147-165
ISSN: 1752-7457
In: Climate policy, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 229-249
ISSN: 1752-7457
In: Climate policy, Band 20, Heft 8, S. 881-887
ISSN: 1752-7457
In: Climate policy, Band 18, Heft 9, S. 1189-1202
ISSN: 1752-7457
In: International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics, Band 17, Heft 6, S. 883-898
ISSN: 1573-1553
In: Challenges in Sustainability, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 53-71
An estimated 2.6 billion people rely on traditional biomass for home cooking and heating, so improving the efficiency of household cookstoves could provide significant environmental, social and economic benefits. Some researchers have estimated that potential greenhouse gas emission reductions could exceed 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per year. Carbon finance offers a policy mechanism for realizing some of this potential and could also bring improved monitoring to cookstove projects. However, there are formidable methodological challenges in estimating emission reductions. This paper evaluates the quantification approaches to three key variables in calculating emission impacts: biomass fuel consumption, fraction of non-renewable biomass, and emission factors for fuel consumption. It draws on a literature review as well as on interviews with technical experts and market actors, and identifies lessons learned and knowledge gaps. Key research needs identified include incorporating accounting for uncertainty; development of additional default factors for biomass consumption for baseline stoves; refinement of monitoring approaches for cookstove use; broadened scope of emission factors used for cookstoves; accounting for non-CO2 gases and black carbon; and refinement of estimates and approaches to considering emissions from bioenergy use across methodologies.