Jules Townshend
Biographic Data
| ID | 597048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jules Townshend |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jules |
| FAMILY NAME | Townshend |
| SIGNATURE | TOWNSHEND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Living with the Fragments: Further Thoughts on Norman Geras’s Critique of Post-Marxism
This article revisits and re-evaluates a famous debate between Norman Geras and Ernesto Laclau. This exchange was one of the few direct confrontations between Marxism and post-Marxism in terms of its significance for the evolution of Marxist theory, characterised by increasing fragmentation often morphing into post-Marxist theory. The article also considers the significance of the debate in relation to the nature of Geras’s adherence to Marxism a…
Living with Capitalism: From Hobson to Giddens
Many commentators have noted the intellectual parallels between New Labour and New Liberalism without spelling them out in much detail. This article highlights these parallels through comparing the thoughts of J. A. Hobson, a key thinker within New Liberalism and British social democracy, and Anthony Giddens, the most prominent ‘Third Way’ thinker. Not only were there striking and surprising similarities, but their differences raise questions abo…
Power, A Radical View
Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism
This volume is a comprehensive introduction to the most key intellectual trend in contemporary critical theory. In jargon-free language it seeks to unpack, explain and review many of the key figures behind the rethinking of the legacy of Marxism in theory and practice
Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism (Sage Politics Texts series)
Laclau and Mouffe's Hegemonic Project: The Story So Far
This paper seeks to do two things: first, to map out in a broad way Laclau and Mouffe's intellectual development, since the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy in 1985, and how they have created a following within academia; and second, to evaluate their ‘hegemonic’ endeavours so far. I argue that there is a place for a post-structuralist approach to the study of political ideologies and the ‘political’, but that the project as a whole …
Derrida's deconstruction of Marx(ism)
This article is an assessment of the arguments between Derrida and his critics over his commentary on Marx and Marxism in Specters of Marx. In order to make the assessment as balanced as possible Derrida's deconstruction of Marx(ism) is mapped out in some detail. It is argued that, although in Derrida's response to his Marxist critics he was correct in indicating that they had often misread and misunderstood his account of what can be termed the …
Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: A New Paradigm from the Essex School
Hobbes as Possessive Individualist: Interrogating the C. B. Macpherson thesis
52 Hobbes as Possessive Individualist: interro- gating the C. B. Macpherson thesis JULES TOWNSHEND If recent commentaries on Hobbes are anything to go by, C. B. Macpherson's analysis of Hobbes as a possessive individualist is virtually dead, maintaining a shadowy existence in the occasional dismissive footnote.' This is a far cry from when Macpherson's account of Hobbes appeared in The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (hereafter PI in…
Lenin's The State and Revolution: An Innocent Reading
A. J. Polan's Weberian-inspired and seemingly persuasive critique of Lenin in Lenin and the End of Politics has gone unanswered. In the process of refuting Polan a critical defense of Lenin is offered. The general question is raised about what kind of Marxism is needed in the face of modernity in order to broaden the horizon of democratic possibility. This requires some kind of Marxist-Weberian synthesis that goes beyond liberal democracy
The Politics of Marxism: The Critical Debates
Has marxist politics a future
Marx and Veblen on Human Nature, History, and Capitalism: Vive la Différence!
There has been a long-standing controversy over the relationship between Marx's and Veblen's social theories. At the turn of the century, within the covers of one journal one commentator claimed that major differences existed between Marx and Veblen, whereas another emphasized the Marxian character of Veblen's economic thought [Walling 1905; LaMont 1905]. A similar range of interpretations has persisted,' but the majority have concluded that Vebl…
John Hobson, Thorstein Veblen and the Phenomenon of Imperialism: Finance Capital, Patriotism and War
Although Hobson (1858-1940) and Veblen (1857-1929) both wrote extensively on imperialism, a systematic comparison of their views has yet to be undertaken. This is corrected with reference to three issues: their respective condemnation and explanation of, and remedy for, imperialism. The contexts in which they wrote is outlined and it is shown that on the basis of a shared definition of imperialism: (1) they both condemned imperialism on economic …
Reassessing Kautsky's Marxism
A Mayor for Paris – An Early Example of Decentralization
This paper analyses the 1975 municipal reform which gave Paris its first elected Mayor since the days of the revolutionary Commune. Local government reform has proved notoriously difficult in France and the policy‐making process in this case was complicated by the political situation, following the death of President Pompidou, in April 1974. His successor, Giscard d'Estaing, attempted to marginalize the Gaullist Party and to govern from the centr…
Amending Kautsky's Charge-Sheet
Laclau and Mouffe's Hegemonic Project: The Story So Far
This paper seeks to do two things: first, to map out in a broad way Laclau and Mouffe's intellectual development, since the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy in 1985, and how they have created a following within academia; and second, to evaluate their ‘hegemonic’ endeavours so far. I argue that there is a place for a post-structuralist approach to the study of political ideologies and the ‘political’, but that the project as a whole …
Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: A New Paradigm from the Essex School
Reassessing Kautsky's Marxism
A Mayor for Paris – An Early Example of Decentralization
This paper analyses the 1975 municipal reform which gave Paris its first elected Mayor since the days of the revolutionary Commune. Local government reform has proved notoriously difficult in France and the policy‐making process in this case was complicated by the political situation, following the death of President Pompidou, in April 1974. His successor, Giscard d'Estaing, attempted to marginalize the Gaullist Party and to govern from the centr…
Amending Kautsky's Charge-Sheet
A Mayor for Paris – An Early Example of Decentralization
This paper analyses the 1975 municipal reform which gave Paris its first elected Mayor since the days of the revolutionary Commune. Local government reform has proved notoriously difficult in France and the policy‐making process in this case was complicated by the political situation, following the death of President Pompidou, in April 1974. His successor, Giscard d'Estaing, attempted to marginalize the Gaullist Party and to govern from the centr…
Amending Kautsky's Charge-Sheet
Reassessing Kautsky's Marxism
John Hobson, Thorstein Veblen and the Phenomenon of Imperialism: Finance Capital, Patriotism and War
Although Hobson (1858-1940) and Veblen (1857-1929) both wrote extensively on imperialism, a systematic comparison of their views has yet to be undertaken. This is corrected with reference to three issues: their respective condemnation and explanation of, and remedy for, imperialism. The contexts in which they wrote is outlined and it is shown that on the basis of a shared definition of imperialism: (1) they both condemned imperialism on economic …
Marx and Veblen on Human Nature, History, and Capitalism: Vive la Différence!
There has been a long-standing controversy over the relationship between Marx's and Veblen's social theories. At the turn of the century, within the covers of one journal one commentator claimed that major differences existed between Marx and Veblen, whereas another emphasized the Marxian character of Veblen's economic thought [Walling 1905; LaMont 1905]. A similar range of interpretations has persisted,' but the majority have concluded that Vebl…
Has marxist politics a future
The Politics of Marxism: The Critical Debates
Hobbes as Possessive Individualist: Interrogating the C. B. Macpherson thesis
52 Hobbes as Possessive Individualist: interro- gating the C. B. Macpherson thesis JULES TOWNSHEND If recent commentaries on Hobbes are anything to go by, C. B. Macpherson's analysis of Hobbes as a possessive individualist is virtually dead, maintaining a shadowy existence in the occasional dismissive footnote.' This is a far cry from when Macpherson's account of Hobbes appeared in The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (hereafter PI in…
Lenin's The State and Revolution: An Innocent Reading
A. J. Polan's Weberian-inspired and seemingly persuasive critique of Lenin in Lenin and the End of Politics has gone unanswered. In the process of refuting Polan a critical defense of Lenin is offered. The general question is raised about what kind of Marxism is needed in the face of modernity in order to broaden the horizon of democratic possibility. This requires some kind of Marxist-Weberian synthesis that goes beyond liberal democracy
Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: A New Paradigm from the Essex School
Laclau and Mouffe's Hegemonic Project: The Story So Far
This paper seeks to do two things: first, to map out in a broad way Laclau and Mouffe's intellectual development, since the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy in 1985, and how they have created a following within academia; and second, to evaluate their ‘hegemonic’ endeavours so far. I argue that there is a place for a post-structuralist approach to the study of political ideologies and the ‘political’, but that the project as a whole …
Derrida's deconstruction of Marx(ism)
This article is an assessment of the arguments between Derrida and his critics over his commentary on Marx and Marxism in Specters of Marx. In order to make the assessment as balanced as possible Derrida's deconstruction of Marx(ism) is mapped out in some detail. It is argued that, although in Derrida's response to his Marxist critics he was correct in indicating that they had often misread and misunderstood his account of what can be termed the …
Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism
This volume is a comprehensive introduction to the most key intellectual trend in contemporary critical theory. In jargon-free language it seeks to unpack, explain and review many of the key figures behind the rethinking of the legacy of Marxism in theory and practice
Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism (Sage Politics Texts series)
Living with Capitalism: From Hobson to Giddens
Many commentators have noted the intellectual parallels between New Labour and New Liberalism without spelling them out in much detail. This article highlights these parallels through comparing the thoughts of J. A. Hobson, a key thinker within New Liberalism and British social democracy, and Anthony Giddens, the most prominent ‘Third Way’ thinker. Not only were there striking and surprising similarities, but their differences raise questions abo…
Power, A Radical View
Living with the Fragments: Further Thoughts on Norman Geras’s Critique of Post-Marxism
This article revisits and re-evaluates a famous debate between Norman Geras and Ernesto Laclau. This exchange was one of the few direct confrontations between Marxism and post-Marxism in terms of its significance for the evolution of Marxist theory, characterised by increasing fragmentation often morphing into post-Marxist theory. The article also considers the significance of the debate in relation to the nature of Geras’s adherence to Marxism a…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (7 works) · Economics (6 works)