Marx, discourse theory and political analysis
Negotiating an Ambiguous Legacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Howarth (0000-0003-2697-165X, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 377-389 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-5904 • E-ISSN: 1740-5912 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17405904.2018.1457550 |
| OpenAlex | W2797179944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article argues that ‘post-Marxist’ or ‘poststructuralist discourse theory’ represents a complex deconstruction of the Marxist tradition of social and political theory. Focussing on three ontological positions in Marx’s texts – the ontologies of human alienation, praxis, and production – the article shows how this approach repeats and transforms the rich tradition of Marxist thinking so as to elaborate a novel approach to social and political analysis. This claim is built around the idea that discourse is best conceptualized as an ‘articulatory practice’, whose elements are both linguistic and non-linguistic in character, and whose products are finite relational orders, including social institutions and economic processes. The result is (1) a shift away from economic determinism and class reductionism to a relational account of social and political forms; (2) the development of an anti-essentialist and anti-reductionist account of political identities, which emerge in a dialectical tension with incomplete processes of identification, and (3) a particular understanding of the subject and agency in political theory, which grounds a different account of political practices. The article also (4) sets out the methodological implications of post-Marxist discourse theory, which is focussed on the articulation of different logics of critical explanation, before (5) exploring the role of critique and normativity in this approach, which are conceptualized as continuous, immanent and complex
Alienation · Dialectic · Epistemology · Essentialism · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Reductionism · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
Post-Marxist reflections on the value of our time. Value theory and the (in)compatibility of discourse theory and the critique of political economy
Contingent, contested and constructed
Performative Control and Rhetoric in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Response to Covid-19
Spatialising antagonism
NotDying4Wallstreet
Contours of historical-materialist policy analysis
The spatialisation of the political imagination
The logics and limits of “collaborative governance” in Nantes
Propuesta de un esquema analítico para la teoría del discurso de Ernesto Laclau
Políticas neoliberais de Damares Alves
Karl Marx
Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
The Discourse of Politics in Action
Critique, Norm, and Utopia
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Poststructuralism and After
Political Discourse Analysis
Discourse and Power
Discourse analysis as immanent critique
Philosophical investigations
The grip of ideology
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |