La philosophie d’après Marx

Marx does not abandon philosophy. He gives it a radically new configuration, through the repatriation within the immanence of the historical community of the foundation which metaphysics had hypostatized in the transcendence of a demiurge, and through the consequent reworking of ontology as a transcendental science of production. Such a re-foundation obliges us to acknowledge that all that had seemed to be given to men is in reality produced by them, while at the same time forcing the admission that the theoretical production of the philosopher is itself a function of the social relations proper to the philosopher’s community. Marx thus overcomes not only the naivety which Husserl had reproached the philosopher with, he also overcomes the jejune emptiness of philosophy, obliging it both to invest the entire social field, as the underlying support-structure of its theoretical elaborations, and to critic its social position and the specific mode of subjectification which it has induced. It is for this reason that philosophy after Marx can no longer be carried out as before, being henceforth haunted by the suspicion of ideology

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