39 definitions
The book's index
Poststructuralism and Postmarxism
32 concepts · 39 definitions
- logic4
- recognition3
- ideal2
- poststructuralism2
- agency1
- antagonism1
- author1
- belief1
- citation1
- deconstruction1
- democracy1
- disillusionment1
- emancipation1
- end of history1
- ethics1
- failure1
- feminine1
- future1
- futurity1
- G.W.F. Hegel1
- history1
- infinite striving1
- knowledge1
- mediation1
- mourning1
- possibility1
- progress1
- resignification1
- romanticism1
- social practice1
- theory1
- utopian thinking1
Logic (n.) housed within the social but never "of" it becomes the new dream of pure thought — perhaps even the transcendence of the social as emancipation's new goal.
Logic (n.) states relations that are not descriptive but imperative: not "this is how the world is" but "this is how the world should be."
Logic (n.) is a social practice that covers over the social construction and sanctioning of its own workings.
Logic (n.) ratifies its own power — logical analysis exempted from social power thereby ratifies its own social power, substituting what can be derived logically for what can be produced historically.
Recognition (n.) becomes not finding oneself in the Other but precisely not finding oneself there — the preservation of a difference recognition cannot overcome.
Recognition (n.) if full would establish the Other as a version of oneself; ethics must safeguard what is unmasterable in the Other.
Recognition (n.) at the limit of representability becomes a gesture of humility before what is not fully knowable.
The Ideal (n.) when unrealizable is more fully sanctifiable than the realizable one: it not only limits our sense of power but sanctifies those limits.
The Ideal (n.) that is unattainable retroactively constitutes the subject as a necessarily failed striving — will to power turned back on itself, which then romanticizes its self-defeat as necessity.
Poststructuralism (n.) is imagined refuted by its historicization, as if historicizing were separable from and prior to its work.
Poststructuralism (n.) theorizes not the demise of Marxism but the inadvertent political possibilities opened by the loss of credibility of Marxist versions of history.
Belief (n.) in history does not accompany history but is the intelligibility of its unfolding — it lives in the very telling, in its confidence, linearity and forward motion.
Deconstruction (n.) is not destruction but a historical affirmation that resists the rancor of failed ideals and resignifies their unmoored terms — Benjamin's angel flying backwards into the future.
Ethics (n.) means standing in a radically unachievable relation to the Other, failing to master the Other — the failure of reciprocal recognition is what guarantees the relation as ethical.
The Future (n.) known in advance is always already present: to postulate history's end is to assimilate it to the present and foreclose the very history it anticipates.
History (n.) holds its promise in its unrealizability: a promise that never comes due, since the history that would be realized would foreclose contestation, difference, alterity.
Mediation (n.) of universal and particular turns out to be the erasure of difference: harmony achieved through domination.