Digging up Marx
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23247397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Graham (0000-0002-5227-2775, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 35-49 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Reconstituting Social Criticism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-27445-1_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2416433751 |
| ISBN | 9781349274451 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Many years ago, in the course of a talk about Poets Laureate through the ages, the broadcaster and jazz person Benny Green said: ‘Four years after Tennyson died, Alfred Austin succeeded him as Poet Laureate. A better idea would have been to dig up Tennyson’. In the same spirit I want to suggest that in the circumstances of the crisis of social criticism described in the introduction to this volume, a better idea is to dig up Marx.2 I believe there are insights in his writings, still to be extracted, which are useful for social critique. That is bound to seem a perverse suggestion at this historical juncture, but I shall attempt to defend it. In the next section I outline the context of the present malaise. In the following section I describe a form of materialism present in Marx’s writings which is incontestable and pertinent to the construction of any social critique. In the final section I suggest that elements of Marx’s class theory serve a similar function.
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology) · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Materialism · Section (typography) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2001 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |