Jan Rehmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 251735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Rehmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rehmann |
| SIGNATURE | REHMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Union Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism: Deleuze and Foucault
Ernst Bloch as a Philosopher of Praxis
Contrary to the widespread portrayal of Bloch’s philosophy as “mystical,” “eschatological,” “idealistic” etc., the essay shows that it is best interpreted through the framework of a Marxist philosophy of praxis. Similarly, to Labriola and Gramsci, Bloch develops his concept of materialism from Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach. His concepts of the “highest good” and of an “alliance technique” take up young Marx’s perspective of a reconciliation between …
Power ≠ Power: Against the Mix-Up of Nietzsche and Spinoza
The reception of Nietzsche's philosophy is still predominated by a widespread 'hermeneutics of innocence' (Losurdo) that dissimulates Nietzsche's elitist perspectives. This article challenges a core element of this hermeneutics, the conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche. The assumption of a continuity of their power concepts overlooks that the late Nietzsche took a sharp anti-Spinozian turn and introduced his 'will to power' against Spinoza's 'cona…
Ideology as Alienated Socialization
Against a widespread misunderstanding, Marx and Engels did not consider ideology as a mere form of consciousness expressing an underlying economic interest. They developed a critical approach that saw ideology as an alienated socialization from above, which is to be overcome in a classless society. It is also shown that their ideology-critical approach was not restricted to a critique of “false consciousness” but was mainly interested in unveilin…
What Kind of “Life Affirmation”? Disentangling the Conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche
As we think about how to develop a life-affirming spirituality, we need to be attentive to the social perspectives from which we are speaking. This essay attempts a critique of the widespread conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche in both mainstream research and poststructuralist interpretations. The assumption of a continuity of their concepts of power overlooks that the late Nietzsche took a sharp anti-Spinozian turn and introduced his “will to po…
Bernie Sanders and the Hegemonic Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism: What Next? 1
Reflecting on the Bernie Sanders campaign from the perspective of an underlying crisis of hegemony, I'd like to show basically two things: (1) The astonishing appeal of the campaign can only be ful
Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Analysis
Basing his research on Gramsci's theory of hegemony, Rehmann provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber's political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution shows that, even though Weber presents his science as 'value-free', he is best understood as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie, who has the mission of providing his class with an intense ethico-politica…
Hypercarceration: A Neoliberal Response to “Surplus Population”
The skyrocketing increase of U.S. incarceration rates from the late 1970s onward indicates a particular neoliberal response to what Marx analyzed as the deep-structural production of “surplus population” by capital. This essay reevaluates the classic contributions of Marx and of Rusche and Kirchheimer and relates them to approaches that emphasize racial continuity, from “convict leasing” to the “New Jim Crow” of the current incarceration system. …
Ideology-Critique with the Conceptual Hinterland of a Theory of the Ideological
The 'ideology-theoretical turn' of the late 1970s and 1980s claimed a re-foundation of Marxist research into ideology, which was stuck in several respects. Its attempt to overcome the traditional fixation on a criticism of 'false' consciousness is still valid. It led, however, in particular in the tradition of the Althusser School, to an over-general notion of ideology that repressed the radical and critical impulses of Marx and Engels' concept o…
Werner Sombart’s ‘Overcoming’ of Marxism
Weber’s Perspective: Capitalist Spirit as a Popular Mass Movement
Proposals for the Development of a ‘Caesarism without a Caesar’
The Ethico-Political Stakes of a ‘Purely Historical Account’
The Katheder Socialist Milieu
Weber’s Concept of Spheres of Value as a Modernisation of Ideological Societalisation
The Basic Operation: Isolation of the ‘Mental and Spiritual Particularities’
From the System of Values to the ‘Clash of Values’—Weber’s Reorganisation of the Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Values
The Sect as Germ Cell of a Superior Model of Societalisation
From German ‘Cultural Protestantism’ to Anglo-American ‘Civil Religion’
A Homogenous Stock Market Elite with a Coherent Concept of Honour
Taylorism and Fordism in the Stockyards
The Return of the Charismatic ‘Caesar’ to Modern Politics
Formulating the Question in Terms of a Critical Theory of Ideology
Theory of Reflection and Transcendental Idealism—An Epistemological Rendezvous manqué
The ‘Value Relation’ as Bearer of ‘Freedom from Value Judgements’
Occupy Wall Street and the Question of Hegemony: A Gramscian Analysis
Several books and articles have already been published on the emergence, dynamics and defeat (at least temporary) of the Occupy movements in the US. To date, Gramsci's theory of hegemony has not pl
Can Marx's Critique of Religion Be Freed from Its Fetters
How do Marx's definitions of religion as the “opium of the people” and as “sigh of the oppressed creature” relate to each other? How can we interpret that he leaves the young Hegelian topic of a “critique of religion” behind and transforms it into a critique of law, politics, and finally commodity “fetishism”? This essay relocates religion in the framework of a theory of ideology. Following Antonio Gramsei, Ernst Bloch, and Pierre Bourdieu, Marxi…
Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico. Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico
Abolition” of civil society: Remarks on a widespread misunderstanding in the interpretation of “civil society”
(1999). “Abolition” of civil society?: Remarks on a widespread misunderstanding in the interpretation of “civil society”. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 1-18
Bernie Sanders and the Hegemonic Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism: What Next? 1
Reflecting on the Bernie Sanders campaign from the perspective of an underlying crisis of hegemony, I'd like to show basically two things: (1) The astonishing appeal of the campaign can only be ful
Hypercarceration: A Neoliberal Response to “Surplus Population”
The skyrocketing increase of U.S. incarceration rates from the late 1970s onward indicates a particular neoliberal response to what Marx analyzed as the deep-structural production of “surplus population” by capital. This essay reevaluates the classic contributions of Marx and of Rusche and Kirchheimer and relates them to approaches that emphasize racial continuity, from “convict leasing” to the “New Jim Crow” of the current incarceration system. …
Ideology Theory
Ideology-Critique with the Conceptual Hinterland of a Theory of the Ideological
The 'ideology-theoretical turn' of the late 1970s and 1980s claimed a re-foundation of Marxist research into ideology, which was stuck in several respects. Its attempt to overcome the traditional fixation on a criticism of 'false' consciousness is still valid. It led, however, in particular in the tradition of the Althusser School, to an over-general notion of ideology that repressed the radical and critical impulses of Marx and Engels' concept o…
What Kind of “Life Affirmation”? Disentangling the Conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche
As we think about how to develop a life-affirming spirituality, we need to be attentive to the social perspectives from which we are speaking. This essay attempts a critique of the widespread conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche in both mainstream research and poststructuralist interpretations. The assumption of a continuity of their concepts of power overlooks that the late Nietzsche took a sharp anti-Spinozian turn and introduced his “will to po…
Philosophy of Praxis, Ideology-Critique, and the Relevance of a ‘Luxemburg-Gramsci Line’
After highlighting the philological and theoretical fortes of Peter Thomas’s The Gramscian Moment , the intervention questions his assumption of Gramsci’s allegedly ‘neutral’ concept of ideology. This interpretation is one-sided in that it leaves out the ideology-critique adopted via Labriola and practised throughout Gramsci’s work. Gramsci’s perspective of rendering people’s common sense more coherent opens up a more democratic perspective than …
Abolition” of civil society: Remarks on a widespread misunderstanding in the interpretation of “civil society”
(1999). “Abolition” of civil society?: Remarks on a widespread misunderstanding in the interpretation of “civil society”. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 1-18
The historical‐critical dictionary of Marxism: A Noah's ark of critical thinking
Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico. Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico
Ideology Theory
Can Marx's Critique of Religion Be Freed from Its Fetters
How do Marx's definitions of religion as the “opium of the people” and as “sigh of the oppressed creature” relate to each other? How can we interpret that he leaves the young Hegelian topic of a “critique of religion” behind and transforms it into a critique of law, politics, and finally commodity “fetishism”? This essay relocates religion in the framework of a theory of ideology. Following Antonio Gramsei, Ernst Bloch, and Pierre Bourdieu, Marxi…
Entender Nietzsche
As controvérsias em torno da filosofia de Nietzsche, sobretudo na Alemanha, continuam sendo determinadas por um posicionamento infrutífero. De um lado, há uma "hermenêutica da inocência", inclusive com sinais pós-modernos, que quer entender mesmo as tomadas de posição mais brutais do filósofo - tais como o apoio à escravidão até a eliminação dos fracos - como sendo apenas uma profunda metáfora. É o que faz, por exemplo, o pós-moderno italiano Gia…
Theories of Ideology: The Powers of Alienation and Subjection
How to explain the hegemonic stability of neoliberal capitalism even in the midst of its crises? The emergence of ideology theories marked a re-foundation of Marxist research into the functioning of alienation and subjection. Going beyond traditional concepts of 'manipulation' and 'false consciousness', they turned to the material existence of hegemonic apparatuses and focused on the mostly unconscious effects of ideological practices, rituals an…
Occupy Wall Street and the Question of Hegemony: A Gramscian Analysis
Several books and articles have already been published on the emergence, dynamics and defeat (at least temporary) of the Occupy movements in the US. To date, Gramsci's theory of hegemony has not pl
Werner Sombart’s ‘Overcoming’ of Marxism
Weber’s Perspective: Capitalist Spirit as a Popular Mass Movement
Proposals for the Development of a ‘Caesarism without a Caesar’
The Ethico-Political Stakes of a ‘Purely Historical Account’
The Katheder Socialist Milieu
Weber’s Concept of Spheres of Value as a Modernisation of Ideological Societalisation
The Basic Operation: Isolation of the ‘Mental and Spiritual Particularities’
From the System of Values to the ‘Clash of Values’—Weber’s Reorganisation of the Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Values
The Sect as Germ Cell of a Superior Model of Societalisation
From German ‘Cultural Protestantism’ to Anglo-American ‘Civil Religion’
A Homogenous Stock Market Elite with a Coherent Concept of Honour
Taylorism and Fordism in the Stockyards
The Return of the Charismatic ‘Caesar’ to Modern Politics
Formulating the Question in Terms of a Critical Theory of Ideology
Theory of Reflection and Transcendental Idealism—An Epistemological Rendezvous manqué
The ‘Value Relation’ as Bearer of ‘Freedom from Value Judgements’
Weber’s 1904 Journey to America
Sociology (30 works) · Political science (29 works) · Philosophy (28 works) · Law (27 works) · Politics (23 works) · Epistemology (22 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (17 works) · History (12 works) · Ideology (12 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (12 works)