...Prathama Banerjee Abstract This essay is a critical homage to Ranajit Guha, who passed away recently in his hundredth year. Through a rereading of Guha's bilingual oeuvre—including his later writings in Bengali—the essay explores Guha's rethinking of time as he started with Marxism, moved...

... with the “transposition of Marx into Goethe,” reading the two concluding paragraphs of his article through the prism of the final quote Marx includes from Goethe's West-östlicher Divan . 12 Works Cited Achcar Gilbert . Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism . New York : Haymarket , 2013 . Ahmad...

... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2002 . Traverso Enzo . Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . 18. Adorno, Negative Dialectics , 8 . 17. Perhaps this peculiar affirmation of a historicist understanding...

... Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . Berman Marshall . All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity . London : Penguin , 1982 . Bou Ali Nadia . “ Mahdi Amel's Colonial Mode of Production and Politics in the Last...

... alone is this limit.” 5 Amel's intellectual development, which began in 1950s Lebanon, was heavily influenced by existentialist Marxism 6 before his theoretical formation in Lyon, France, and Constantine, Algeria. 7 It could be said that Amel's formation was the result of the conjuncture...

... were most influenced by Western Marxism. In these debates, the emphasis was more often than not on class as the primary logic that animated racial theories and as an ideological justification for procuring a cheap labor supply. 31 Later on, there were also other currents of thought in the South...

... with Orientalism. However, in their insistence on geographical particularity and the contingent outcomes of struggles, these intellectuals often distanced themselves from Marx's historical materialism. Amel noted that the theoretical tools of Marxism “are themselves the main obstacles blocking the production...

... Amel's work from a range of contemporary perspectives and emphasize the continuing relevance of his critique of Orientalism . This foundational text of postcolonial theory took distance from Marx and hence from anticolonial Marxisms. According to Amel, this led to a consequential forgetting...

... access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Rosa Luxemburg Marxism theory of history imperialism Rosa Luxemburg's work is having something of a moment. In recent years, a host of new books, articles, conferences, and podcasts have been...

... and elaborating alternatives to neoliberalism and/or capitalism. A broad definition of the left is necessary given the diversity of the disciplines and schools of thought—such as Marxism, post-Marxism, critical theory, political theory, international political economy, public economics, intellectual history...

... , 2009 . Bardawil Fadi A . Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . Butler Judith . Giving an Account of Oneself . New York : Fordham University Press , 2005 . Byrd Jodi A . The Transit...

.... In her writing and teaching, she invited readers and students to consider how presuppositions about the subject, ethics, and religion found in critical theories rooted in Marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, and liberalism are challenged and revised by studies of practices outside the West...

... orientation to reform (rather than revolution). Across the generations, however—from Horkheimer to Habermas to Honneth—Marxism's role is diminished, with Weber replacing Marx as a key figure for understanding modern society. As John Holmwood argues, Habermas is pivotal in this shifting trajectory, with his...

... offered a defense of proletarian mass democracy against the democratically veiled class violence of the dictatorship of the bourgeois minority. 1 He later engaged with Marxism's troubled relationship to violence—at once critically analyzed in accounts of the structural role of violence in the genesis...

... in the Indian Ocean world, seems untimely in ways that Marxism, even if regarded in terms of messianic temporality, does not. 22 While Marx's problem-space was not radically other from Fadl's or even his father's, it offered an answer that was concrete, utopian, and very much in keeping with the times. 23...

... represent themselves; they must be represented.” 1 In Said's appraisal, Marxism is morally culpable for not denouncing the suffering of the people of the Orient. Said reads Marx's invocation of Goethe in describing the scene of colonization as “Romantic and even messianic: as human material the Orient...

... laws of history, but his main argument with Western Marxism is that colonized nations have their own singular trajectory to socialism, which is not dictated only by the developments in Western capitalism. In this text, Amel builds his critical analysis on the way Said reads Marx in Orientalism...

..., postcolonial/decolonial studies, theories of performativity, and new Marxisms. 14 These left political epistemologies of difference and contingency—for all their theoretical, historical, and geopolitical plurality—have not been particularly welcome in the canon of mainstream institutional philosophy...

... traditions, including Marxism, with György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, E. P. Thompson, and Frantz Fanon, for whom human agency and class consciousness are interconnected; pragmatism, with Friedrich Schiller, who regards philosophy's fundamental task as understanding how human beings strive to comprehend human...

... Speak?” in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture , she returns us once again to Marx's famous line regarding self-representation. 8 And in doing so, she reads Marx's claim quite differently than Said insofar as she reads the line as a question of translation. Where Said incorporates...