tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post2607095248159923804..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Introduction: Marxism and Post-MarxismPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-9649549187586160352009-08-22T16:20:53.420+01:002009-08-22T16:20:53.420+01:00I completely concur with your comments about Lacla...I completely concur with your comments about Laclau and Mouffe.<br /><br />Depressingly, I've read many an academic who take their views of Marx et al not from their own researches, but the caricature Laclau and Mouffe painted of them. What they did was make fashionable a certain laziness towards Marx in British academia that has been picked up on time and again. <br /><br />Looking back on what I wrote seven years ago, with the odd nuance here and there I'd still agree with most of what is said, with the exception of my lumping Baudrillard in with Lyotard. I think I "get" Baudrillard, and despite his absurd provocations I don't think he's "irresponsible" - see this <a href="http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2007/12/baudrillard-again.html" rel="nofollow">old piece</a> I wrote after looking into Baudrillard a bit more.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-91694073597290101662009-08-21T07:01:44.137+01:002009-08-21T07:01:44.137+01:00You can find the whole book downloaded here :
htt...You can find the whole book downloaded here :<br /><br />http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/science_books/philosophy/laclaumouffe.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-81206649544041321452009-08-20T23:10:32.984+01:002009-08-20T23:10:32.984+01:00Phil
Very interesting start, and I look forward t...Phil<br /><br />Very interesting start, and I look forward to reading the rest of your masters. <br /><br />You may (or may not) be interested in my previous little dabblings with Laclau and Mouffe (http://www.bickerstafferecord.org.uk/?p=451), in which I sought to contextualise the weaknesses in their approach in the well meaning but intellectually incoherent failures (sometimes dressed up as succeseses) of the British left in the early 1980s - failures which still haunt the British left and a subject which I keep meaning to address in my now overdue series of posts on 'whither the Labour left?'<br /><br />Like you, I find L and M and all that political boundary stuff useful as a heuristic tool, but as I suggest in my title, they threw the marxist baby out with the bathwater.Paulhttp://www.bickerstafferecord.org.uknoreply@blogger.com