History and Human Existence
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION:  MARXISM AND THE SENSE OF SUBJECTIVITY

 collapse sectionPART ONE—  MARX
 collapse section1—  Marx's Hopes for Individuation
 •The Individual in the Bourgeois State
 •The Alienation of Labor
 •Individual and Species:  Man as Social Being
 •A Vision of Free Individuality
 •Reality Depicted
 •Egoism
 •The Logic of Capital and the Loss of Agency
 •History and Individuation
 •The Social Individual Liberated
 collapse section2—  The "Real Individual" and Marx's Method
 •The Individual Basis of Theory:  Feuerbach and Marx
 •Between Social Nominalism and Social Realism
 •Comprehending Social Relations
 collapse section3—  Marx's Concept of Labor
 •Practice and Materialism
 •Excursus on Hegel's Concept of Practice
 •The Labor Process in Marx's Later Works
 collapse section4—  Reason, Interest, and the Necessity of History:  The Ambiguities of Marx's Legacy
 •Marxism as a Science:  The Laws of Political Economy
 •Class Struggle and the Collapse of Capitalism
 •Marx and the Concept of Interest
 •The Interest of the Proletariat
 •Interest as an Attribute of Individuality
 •Materialist Pedagogy and the Enlightenment of Interest
 •Hegel, Smith, and Marx:  The Necessity of Reason
 •Marx's Rationalism
 •Marxism between Science and Reason

 collapse sectionPART TWO—  FROM ENGELS TO GRAMSCI
 collapse section5—  Engels and the Dialectics of Nature
 •Engels and Marx
 •Dialectics and Darwin
 •Subjectivity and Nature
 •Communism, Class Struggle, and Science
 collapse section6—  The Rise of Orthodox Marxism
 •Plekhanov and Labriola:  The Autonomy of History and the Passivity of Practice
 •Revisionism, Orthodoxy, and the Communist Project
 •Lenin as Philosopher:  Reflecting Necessity
 •Orthodoxy and the Liquidation of Subjectivity
 collapse section7—  Revolutionary Rationalism:  Luxemburg, Lukács, and Gramsci
 •Rosa Luxemburg and the Necessity of Socialism
 •Georg Lukacs:  The Reification of Subjectivity
 •Gramsci:  Socialism Beyond the Necessity of Reason

 collapse sectionPART THREE—  EXISTENTIAL MARXISM
 collapse section8—  The Prospects for Individuation Reconsidered
 •Nietzsche's Challenge
 •Phenomenology and the Question of Individuality
 •The Possibility of Critical Theory
 collapse section9—  Sartre:  The Fear of Freedom
 •Freedom as Foundation and Problem
 •Authenticity and Man's Social Situation
 •Revolution and Transcendence
 •The Will to Revolution
 •In Praise of Leninism
 •Existentialism and Marxism
 •The Phenomenology of the Social World and the Problem of "the Other"
 •Human Collectivities:  From the Group to the Series
 •The Phenomenon of Social Necessity
 •A Formal Marxism?
 •The Limits of Sartrean Marxism
 •Marxism and the Critique of Rationalism
 •Existential Psychoanalysis and the Aims of Marxism
 collapse section10—  Merleau-Ponty:  The Ambiguity of History
 •From Behavior to Perception:  The Affinity of Consciousness and Nature
 •The Embodied Cogito and Intersubjectivity
 •Situated vs. Absolute Freedom
 •The Sources of Merleau-Ponty's Marxism
 •From Perception to History
 •Social Being:  The Institution
 •On Becoming a Proletarian
 •Terrorism and the Logic of History
 •Adventures of the Proletariat
 •A Marxism without Guarantees?
 •The Lessons of Merleau-Ponty's Marxism
  EPILOGUE

 collapse sectionNotes
 •Abbreviations Used in Notes
 •INTRODUCTION: MARXISM AND THE SENSE OF SUBJECTIVITY
 •1— Marx's Hopes for Individuation
 •2— The "Real Individual" and Marx's Method
 •3— Marx's Concept of Labor
 •4— Reason, Interest, and the Necessity of History: The Ambiguities of Marx's Legacy
 •5— Engels and the Dialectics of Nature
 •6— The Rise of Orthodox Marxism
 •7— Revolutionary Rationalism: Luxemburg, Lukács, and Gramsci
 •8— The Prospects for Individuation Reconsidered
 •9— Sartre: The Fear of Freedom
 •10— Merleau-Ponty: The Ambiguity of History
 •EPILOGUE
 collapse sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 collapse sectionMarx and Engels
 •Works on Marx and Engels
 collapse sectionMarxism, From Orthodoxy to Critical Theory
 •Works on Marxism, from Orthodoxy to Critical Theory
 collapse sectionPhenomenology and Existential Marxism
 •Works on Phenomenology and Existential Marxism
 •Other Works Consulted
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