Joseph Fracchia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Fracchia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Fracchia |
| SIGNATURE | FRACCHIA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Bodies and Artefacts: Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics (2 vols.)
In a seemingly offhand, often overlooked comment, Karl Marx deemed ‘human corporeal organisation’ the ‘first fact of human history’. Following Marx’s corporeal turn and pursuing the radical implications of his corporeal insight, this book undertakes a reconstruction of the corporeal foundations of historical materialism. Part I exposes the corporeal roots of Marx’s materialist conception of history and historical-materialist Wissenschaft. Part II…
Organisms and Objectifications: A Historical-Materialist Inquiry into the 'Human and Animal
The anthropocentric tendency to view nature or the environment as everything that is not human obscures the productive processes that go on in "nature." But non-human animals are also the purposeful producers of their own worlds: they too engage in their own species-specific objectifying activity that transforms what is, from their perspective, nature; they too build worlds in their own bodily image.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this ar…
The Philosophical Leninism and Eastern ‘Western Marxism’ of Georg Lukács
This essay centres on the English translation (2000) of Georg Lukács’s Tailism and the Dialectic (written in either 1925 or 1926). Lukács is generally heralded as a founding theoretician of a ‘Western Marxism’, in opposition to ‘Eastern’ Soviet Marxism, and his most impressive and most influential work, History and Class Consciousness (1923), is generally treated as having rehabilitated Marxist concern with questions of subjectivity. It might the…
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism Immaterial Labour
The Capitalist Labour-Process and the Body in Pain: The Corporeal Depths of Marx's Concept of Immiseration
One of the most common critiques of Marx is that he mistook the birth pangs of capitalism for its death throes, on the basis of which he made the completely erroneous prediction of the increasing immiseration of the working class – a critique that rather superficially reduces immiseration to a simple matter of standard of living. The goal of this essay, however, is to expose the corporeal depths of Marx's notion of immiseration, and, in so doing,…
Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906)
Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten1 (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) W. E. B. Du Bois Translated by Joseph Fracchia The great economic opportunities that opened up in the new North American republic at the beginning of the nineteenth century, combined with the homogeneity of its population and its institutions, let it appear not impossible that there—on the other side of the ocean—a nation would arise free of the crippling …
Beyond the Human-Nature Debate: Human Corporeal Organisation as the 'First Fact' of Historical Materialism
The Price of Metaphor
In his critical response to our skeptical inquiry, “Does Culture Evolve?” (History and Theory, Theme Issue 38 [December 1999], 52–78), W. G. Runciman affirms that “Culture Does Evolve.” However, we find nothing in his essay that convinces us to alter our initial position. And we must confess that in composing an answer to Runciman, our first temptation was simply to urge those interested to read our original article–both as a basis for evaluating…
Subaltern Studies 1 and Collective Memories in Piana degli Albanesi: Methodological Reflections on a Historiographical Encounter
On Transhistorical Abstractions and the Intersection of Historical Theory and Social Critique
Historical Materialism , volume 12:3 (125–146) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Marx 1981, p. 10. Joseph Fracchia On Transhistorical Abstractions and the Intersection of Historical Theory and Social Critique Reading Marx as a critical social theorist, Moishe Postone designates the Grundrisse (1857–8) as the first of Marx’s ‘mature’ writings. In this, he disagrees with Marx’s own retrospective, written in…
Whose Burden
Book reviewed in this article: Allan Megill, Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and The Market
Dialectical Itineraries
This essay is a kind of sequel to an earlier one entitled "Marx's Aufhebungof Philosophy and the Foundations of a Historical-Materialist Science." Departing from the point reached in that essay, I take a Whitmanesque journey through Marx's writings and the logic of a materialist conception of history. I begin with Walt Whitman's very materialist, very dialectical, and very decentered apostrophe in his Song of the Open Road: "You objects that call…
Does Culture Evolve
The drive to describe cultural history as an evolutionary process has two sources. One from within social theory is part of the impetus to convert social studies into "social sciences" providing them with the status accorded to the natural sciences. The other comes from within biology and biological anthropology in the belief that the theory of evolution must be universal in its application to all functions of all living organisms. The social--sc…
Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the "Grundrisse."
Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory
Part I. A Critique of Traditional Marxism: 1. Rethinking Marx's critique of capitalism 2. Presuppositions of traditional Marxism 3. The limits of traditional Marxism and the pessimistic turn of Critical Theory Part II. Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: The Commodity 4. Abstract labor 5. Abstract time 6. Habermas's critique of Marx Part III. Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: capital 7. Toward a theory of capital 8. Th…
Marx's Aufhebung of Philosophy and the Foundations of a Materialist Science of History
The relation between theory and historical analysis is perhaps most often acknowledged, yet least precisely defined, element of Marx's project. Marx and Engels both wrote several letters insisting on tentative nature of their theoretical works and on need for continued study of history. Since, however, they never systematically and unambiguously defined exact purpose and place of historical studies in their larger project, debate over this relati…
Does Culture Evolve
The drive to describe cultural history as an evolutionary process has two sources. One from within social theory is part of the impetus to convert social studies into "social sciences" providing them with the status accorded to the natural sciences. The other comes from within biology and biological anthropology in the belief that the theory of evolution must be universal in its application to all functions of all living organisms. The social--sc…
The Capitalist Labour-Process and the Body in Pain: The Corporeal Depths of Marx's Concept of Immiseration
One of the most common critiques of Marx is that he mistook the birth pangs of capitalism for its death throes, on the basis of which he made the completely erroneous prediction of the increasing immiseration of the working class – a critique that rather superficially reduces immiseration to a simple matter of standard of living. The goal of this essay, however, is to expose the corporeal depths of Marx's notion of immiseration, and, in so doing,…
Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906)
Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten1 (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) W. E. B. Du Bois Translated by Joseph Fracchia The great economic opportunities that opened up in the new North American republic at the beginning of the nineteenth century, combined with the homogeneity of its population and its institutions, let it appear not impossible that there—on the other side of the ocean—a nation would arise free of the crippling …
Beyond the Human-Nature Debate: Human Corporeal Organisation as the 'First Fact' of Historical Materialism
On Transhistorical Abstractions and the Intersection of Historical Theory and Social Critique
Historical Materialism , volume 12:3 (125–146) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Marx 1981, p. 10. Joseph Fracchia On Transhistorical Abstractions and the Intersection of Historical Theory and Social Critique Reading Marx as a critical social theorist, Moishe Postone designates the Grundrisse (1857–8) as the first of Marx’s ‘mature’ writings. In this, he disagrees with Marx’s own retrospective, written in…
The Price of Metaphor
In his critical response to our skeptical inquiry, “Does Culture Evolve?” (History and Theory, Theme Issue 38 [December 1999], 52–78), W. G. Runciman affirms that “Culture Does Evolve.” However, we find nothing in his essay that convinces us to alter our initial position. And we must confess that in composing an answer to Runciman, our first temptation was simply to urge those interested to read our original article–both as a basis for evaluating…
The Philosophical Leninism and Eastern ‘Western Marxism’ of Georg Lukács
This essay centres on the English translation (2000) of Georg Lukács’s Tailism and the Dialectic (written in either 1925 or 1926). Lukács is generally heralded as a founding theoretician of a ‘Western Marxism’, in opposition to ‘Eastern’ Soviet Marxism, and his most impressive and most influential work, History and Class Consciousness (1923), is generally treated as having rehabilitated Marxist concern with questions of subjectivity. It might the…
Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory
Part I. A Critique of Traditional Marxism: 1. Rethinking Marx's critique of capitalism 2. Presuppositions of traditional Marxism 3. The limits of traditional Marxism and the pessimistic turn of Critical Theory Part II. Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: The Commodity 4. Abstract labor 5. Abstract time 6. Habermas's critique of Marx Part III. Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: capital 7. Toward a theory of capital 8. Th…
Marx's Aufhebung of Philosophy and the Foundations of a Materialist Science of History
The relation between theory and historical analysis is perhaps most often acknowledged, yet least precisely defined, element of Marx's project. Marx and Engels both wrote several letters insisting on tentative nature of their theoretical works and on need for continued study of history. Since, however, they never systematically and unambiguously defined exact purpose and place of historical studies in their larger project, debate over this relati…
Organisms and Objectifications: A Historical-Materialist Inquiry into the 'Human and Animal
The anthropocentric tendency to view nature or the environment as everything that is not human obscures the productive processes that go on in "nature." But non-human animals are also the purposeful producers of their own worlds: they too engage in their own species-specific objectifying activity that transforms what is, from their perspective, nature; they too build worlds in their own bodily image.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this ar…
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism Immaterial Labour
Dialectical Itineraries
This essay is a kind of sequel to an earlier one entitled "Marx's Aufhebungof Philosophy and the Foundations of a Historical-Materialist Science." Departing from the point reached in that essay, I take a Whitmanesque journey through Marx's writings and the logic of a materialist conception of history. I begin with Walt Whitman's very materialist, very dialectical, and very decentered apostrophe in his Song of the Open Road: "You objects that call…
Marx's Aufhebung of Philosophy and the Foundations of a Materialist Science of History
The relation between theory and historical analysis is perhaps most often acknowledged, yet least precisely defined, element of Marx's project. Marx and Engels both wrote several letters insisting on tentative nature of their theoretical works and on need for continued study of history. Since, however, they never systematically and unambiguously defined exact purpose and place of historical studies in their larger project, debate over this relati…
Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory
Part I. A Critique of Traditional Marxism: 1. Rethinking Marx's critique of capitalism 2. Presuppositions of traditional Marxism 3. The limits of traditional Marxism and the pessimistic turn of Critical Theory Part II. Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: The Commodity 4. Abstract labor 5. Abstract time 6. Habermas's critique of Marx Part III. Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: capital 7. Toward a theory of capital 8. Th…
Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the "Grundrisse."
Dialectical Itineraries
This essay is a kind of sequel to an earlier one entitled "Marx's Aufhebungof Philosophy and the Foundations of a Historical-Materialist Science." Departing from the point reached in that essay, I take a Whitmanesque journey through Marx's writings and the logic of a materialist conception of history. I begin with Walt Whitman's very materialist, very dialectical, and very decentered apostrophe in his Song of the Open Road: "You objects that call…
Does Culture Evolve
The drive to describe cultural history as an evolutionary process has two sources. One from within social theory is part of the impetus to convert social studies into "social sciences" providing them with the status accorded to the natural sciences. The other comes from within biology and biological anthropology in the belief that the theory of evolution must be universal in its application to all functions of all living organisms. The social--sc…
Whose Burden
Book reviewed in this article: Allan Megill, Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and The Market
Subaltern Studies 1 and Collective Memories in Piana degli Albanesi: Methodological Reflections on a Historiographical Encounter
On Transhistorical Abstractions and the Intersection of Historical Theory and Social Critique
Historical Materialism , volume 12:3 (125–146) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Marx 1981, p. 10. Joseph Fracchia On Transhistorical Abstractions and the Intersection of Historical Theory and Social Critique Reading Marx as a critical social theorist, Moishe Postone designates the Grundrisse (1857–8) as the first of Marx’s ‘mature’ writings. In this, he disagrees with Marx’s own retrospective, written in…
Beyond the Human-Nature Debate: Human Corporeal Organisation as the 'First Fact' of Historical Materialism
The Price of Metaphor
In his critical response to our skeptical inquiry, “Does Culture Evolve?” (History and Theory, Theme Issue 38 [December 1999], 52–78), W. G. Runciman affirms that “Culture Does Evolve.” However, we find nothing in his essay that convinces us to alter our initial position. And we must confess that in composing an answer to Runciman, our first temptation was simply to urge those interested to read our original article–both as a basis for evaluating…
Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906)
Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten1 (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) W. E. B. Du Bois Translated by Joseph Fracchia The great economic opportunities that opened up in the new North American republic at the beginning of the nineteenth century, combined with the homogeneity of its population and its institutions, let it appear not impossible that there—on the other side of the ocean—a nation would arise free of the crippling …
The Capitalist Labour-Process and the Body in Pain: The Corporeal Depths of Marx's Concept of Immiseration
One of the most common critiques of Marx is that he mistook the birth pangs of capitalism for its death throes, on the basis of which he made the completely erroneous prediction of the increasing immiseration of the working class – a critique that rather superficially reduces immiseration to a simple matter of standard of living. The goal of this essay, however, is to expose the corporeal depths of Marx's notion of immiseration, and, in so doing,…
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism Immaterial Labour
The Philosophical Leninism and Eastern ‘Western Marxism’ of Georg Lukács
This essay centres on the English translation (2000) of Georg Lukács’s Tailism and the Dialectic (written in either 1925 or 1926). Lukács is generally heralded as a founding theoretician of a ‘Western Marxism’, in opposition to ‘Eastern’ Soviet Marxism, and his most impressive and most influential work, History and Class Consciousness (1923), is generally treated as having rehabilitated Marxist concern with questions of subjectivity. It might the…
Organisms and Objectifications: A Historical-Materialist Inquiry into the 'Human and Animal
The anthropocentric tendency to view nature or the environment as everything that is not human obscures the productive processes that go on in "nature." But non-human animals are also the purposeful producers of their own worlds: they too engage in their own species-specific objectifying activity that transforms what is, from their perspective, nature; they too build worlds in their own bodily image.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this ar…
Bodies and Artefacts: Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics (2 vols.)
In a seemingly offhand, often overlooked comment, Karl Marx deemed ‘human corporeal organisation’ the ‘first fact of human history’. Following Marx’s corporeal turn and pursuing the radical implications of his corporeal insight, this book undertakes a reconstruction of the corporeal foundations of historical materialism. Part I exposes the corporeal roots of Marx’s materialist conception of history and historical-materialist Wissenschaft. Part II…
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