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Marx and Singularity: From the Early Writings to the Grundrisse: 41
Author(s): Luca Basso (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 23 Nov. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 212 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004233865
- ISBN-13: 9789004233867
Book Description
Marx and Singularity by Luca Basso attempts to understand the development of Marx’s thought, from the early writings to the Grundrisse, as a search for individual realisation. Drawing upon the concept of singularity in contemporary French theory, and problematising its relation to Marx’s vocabulary, this book challenges organicist interpretations of Marx’s early work. The productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of individual realisation, stressing at the same time its distance from the modern conception of individuality. The “correlate” of singularity is the reciprocity, moving and unstable, between the “individual” and the “collective”, which occurs in class struggles.
Updated and revised edition of
Socialità e isolamento: la singolarità in Marx published by Carocci in 2008.Editorial Reviews
Review
“[…] both works [including Basso’s Marx and Singularity] are exciting and outstanding achievements in academic Marxism, and we should applaud the editors of the Historical Materialism Book Series for making this work available to an English language readership.” – Christian Lotz, in: Marx & Philosophy, 9 May 2014
About the Author
Luca Basso, Ph.D. University of Pisa, studied in Padua and in Berlin. He is Researcher of Political Philosophy at the University of Padua. He has published many articles and three monographs: Individuo e comunità nella filosofia politica di Leibniz (Rubbettino, 2005), Socialità e isolamento: la singolarità in Marx (Carocci, 2008) of which the current book is a revised edition, and Agire in comune. Antropologia e politica nell’ultimo Marx (Ombre Corte, 2012).
