Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism

Crisis, Body, World

Ian H. Angus (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

558 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4092-5 (ISBN)

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This original, contemporary synthesis between phenomenology and Marx’s late work begins from Edmund Husserl’s The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology to chart a new program for Socratic phenomenology in the current confrontation between planetary technology and place-based Indigeneity.

In Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World, Ian H. Angus investigates the crisis of reason in a contemporary context. Beginning with Edmund Husserl’s The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Angus connects the phenomenology of human motility to Marx’s ontology of labor in Capital and shows its basis in natural fecundity (excess). He argues that the formalization of reason creates an inability to foster differentiated community as expected by both Husserl and Marx and that the formalization of human motility by the regime of value reveals the ontological productivity of natural fecundity, showing that ecology is the contemporary exemplary science. Addressing the crisis requires a philosophy of technology (especially digital technology) and a dialogue between cultural-civilizational lifeworlds, which surpasses Husserl’s assumption that Europe is the home of reason. Angus’s overall conception of phenomenology is Socratic in that it is concerned with the presuppositions and applications of knowledge-forms in their lifeworld grounding. He further shows that the contemporary event is the epochal confrontation between planetary technology and place-based Indigeneity. This book lays out the fundamental concepts of a systematic phenomenological Marxian philosophy.

Ian H. Angus is professor emeritus of humanities at Simon Fraser University.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Part One: Phenomenology and the Crisis of Modern Reason
Introduction: Modern Reason, Crisis, Meaning and Value
Chapter 1 – Overview of the Crisis

Part Two: Objectivism and the Crisis of Value
Chapter 2 – Modern Science and the Problem of Objectivism
Chapter 3 – Galilean Science and the One-Dimensional Lifeworld
Chapter 4 – The Institution of Digital Culture
Chapter 5 – Representation and the Crisis of Value
Concluding Remark to Part Two

Part Three: The Living Body and Ontology of Labor
Chapter 6 – Science and the Lifeworld
Chapter 7 – Ontology of Labor and the Inception of Culture
Chapter 8 – The Regime of Value
Chapter 9 – Technology in Living Labor
Chapter 10 – Nature and the Source of Value
Concluding Remark to Part Three

Part Four: Transcendentality and the Constitution of Worlds
Chapter 11 – The Paradox of Subjectivity and the Transcendental Field
Chapter 12 – Limits of Europe and the Planetary Event
Chapter 13 - America and P

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	721 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-7936-4092-0 / 1793640920
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4092-5 / 9781793640925
Zustand	Neuware