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Author: Étienne Balibar
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The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need.Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create a brilliantly concise portrait of Marx that will initiate the student and intrigue the scholar.He examines all the key areas of Marxs writings, including his early works, The Communist Manifesto, The German Ideology and Capital, explaining their wider historical and theoretical context. Making clear such concepts as class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism and the state, Balibar includes brief yet incisive biographical studies of key Marxists such as Althusser, Gramsci, Engels and Lenin.The Philosophy of Marx will become the standard guide to Marxs thought.ReviewA very intelligent and creative worksuccinct and informative it explores the ways in which Marxism as such challenges traditional philosophy (and the problems the latter possesses for it). It would certainly have a privileged place on the shelf of contemporary studies of Marx. (Fredric Jameson )A trenchant and exciting analysis of the philosophy of Marx. It is intelligent and original, and makes us understand the ways in which reading Marx lucidly can be very useful to us today. No dogma here and no banalities. A refreshing book. (Immanuel Wallerstein ) Language NotesText English (translation)Original Language French The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need.Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create a brilliantly concise portrait of Marx that will initiate the student and intrigue the scholar.He examines all the key areas of Marxs writings, including his early works, The Communist Manifesto, The German Ideology and Capital, explaining their wider historical and theoretical context. Making clear such concepts as class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism and the state, Balibar includes brief yet incisive biographical studies of key Marxists such as Althusser, Gramsci, Engels and Lenin.The Philosophy of Marx will become the standard guide to Marxs thought.ReviewA very intelligent and creative worksuccinct and informative it explores the ways in which Marxism as such challenges traditional philosophy (and the problems the latter possesses for it). It would certainly have a privileged place on the shelf of contemporary studies of Marx. (Fredric Jameson )A trenchant and exciting analysis of the philosophy of Marx. It is intelligent and original, and makes us understand the ways in which reading Marx lucidly can be very useful to us today. No dogma here and no banalities. A refreshing book. (Immanuel Wallerstein ) Language NotesText English (translation)Original Language French Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create a brilliantly concise portrait of Marx that will initiate the student and intrigue the scholar.He examines all the key areas of Marxs writings, including his early works, The Communist Manifesto, The German Ideology and Capital, explaining their wider historical and theoretical context. Making clear such concepts as class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism and the state, Balibar includes brief yet incisive biographical studies of key Marxists such as Althusser, Gramsci, Engels and Lenin.The Philosophy of Marx will become the standard guide to...
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Author: Holly A. Crocker
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This book argues that Chaucer challenges his cultures mounting obsession with vision through his varied constructions of masculinity. Because medieval theories of vision relied upon distinctions between active and passive seers and viewers, optical discourse had social and moral implications for gender difference in late fourteenth-century England. By exploring ocularitys equal dependence on invisibility, Chaucer offers men and women access to a vision of manhed, one that fragments a traditional gender binary by blurring its division between agency and passivity. ReviewThis book is an important contribution not just to the study of gender in the past but also to current heory, offering a combination of psychoanalysis and historicism . . . the end effect is a full account of the medieval contribution to the construction of the male universal . . . a crucial and intelligent addition to the subject and a credit to the interesting New Middle Ages series at Palgrave. - Studies in the Age of Chaucer In Chaucers Visions of Manhood, Holly A. Crocker attempts to bring together two important recent strands of Chaucer criticism and, indeed, of medieval literary scholarship more generally gender studies, specifically critical studies in masculinity, and historical vision theory. Her attempt is quite successful and will be of considerable interest to medievalists workingin either or both of these areas. - Journal of British Studies Masculinity is boring. Or rather, particular types of masculinities pass themselves off as boring, unremarkable, and even invisible. Yet the seeming boringness of masculinity is key to Holly Crockers trenchant investigation of how gender works within the Chaucerian corpus. Deliberately avoiding the more popular Chaucerian figures and texts - such as the Pardoner and his tale - in recent studies of medieval gender and sexuality, Crocker instead treats a much weirder kettle of fish (16) in her monograph the Tale of Melibee, the Physicians Tale, the Book of the Duchess, the Shipmans Tale, and the manuscript Harley 7333. While some of these texts may not have received much critical attention by critics who view them as boring in one way or another, they are, in Crockers view, more extreme and excessive in their representations of masculinity and femininity. One could argue that Crockers project, by virtue of its chosen texts, is also a study of minor literature within the Chaucerian canon. - The Medieval Review This is a stellar addition to the growing galaxy of books and articles on Chaucers construction of gender. Crocker takes a fresh look at visibility and invisibility, agency and identity, transgression and performance in The Book of the Duchess and several of the narratives in the Canterbury Tales. Chaucers Visions of Manhood is balanced, original, sophisticated, and firmly grounded both in medieval ocular theory and in the psychoanalytic and historicist theories of modern scholars. Appropriately for a book on vision and visibility, it gives us fresh insights on every page, and it leaves us, finally, with a sensible view of Chaucer-the pilgrim, the poet, and the man. - Peter G. Beidler, Lehigh University Editor of Masculinities in ChaucerNot since Carolyn Dinshaws Chaucers Sexual Poetics has a single study revolutionized our understanding of Chaucers construction of gender, but Chaucers Visions of Manhood more than matches this lofty goal. Reading the privileged cultural invisibility accorded to masculinity within Chaucers fictions, Crocker exposes the ideological inventions and subterfuges necessary to maintain gender as a regulatory system almost impervious to dissolution yet simultaneously needing endless cultural support. - Tison Pugh, Associate Professor, University of Central FloridaCrockers subtle and learned illumination of the dialectics of [in]visibility that undergirds gender formation in Chaucers poetry moves critical discussion of gender in late medieval poetry to another level. Rather than presenting a predictable analysis of Chaucers male characters, she traces Chaucers challenge to masculinitys [in]visible privilege in order to reveal the multiple possibilities for both male and female agency afforded by Chaucers work. This is a book that everyone interested in historicizing theories of the gaze must read. - Elizabeth Robertson, University of Colorado at Boulder About the AuthorHolly A. Crocker is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Her articles appear in Chaucer Review, Shakespeare Quarterly, Medieval Feminist Forum, and a number of edited collections. She recently edited a collection of essays entitled Comic Provocations Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Palgrave Macmillan 2006).
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