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Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler will be in conversation with Ruth Groff, Tony Smith and Tom Jeannot with Paul Reynolds moderating, on Philosophical & Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy: Recognizing Capital extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory. The chapters form a connected inquiry into consequences of capital, a far-reaching social form, through a critique of political economy and the mindset it shares with much modern philosophy and social theory, what Karl Marx called “the bourgeois horizon.” The authors call this bifurcating mentality factoring philosophy. Factoring philosophy mistakes the distinguishable for the separable. It splits the subjective and objective, form and content, and it takes the object of social theory to be an impossible economy-in-general, stripped of constitutive social forms. The critique of factoring philosophy structures the collection, which makes a wide-ranging contribution to the research field of the critique of political economy as critical social theory
Patrick Murray is John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities and professor of philosophy at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He is the author of The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form (Brill, 2016) and Marx’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge (Humanities, 1988). He is the editor of Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present (Routledge, 1997). He is co-author with Jeanne Schuler of False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose and Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy: Recognizing Capital (both Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). He served as co-coordinator of the Radical Philosophy Association.
Jeanne Schuler is professor of philosophy at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. She has published in the history of philosophy and critical theory, including articles on Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Arendt, Iris Murdoch, and Habermas. She is co-author with Patrick Murray of False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose and Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy: Recognizing Capital (both Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). She served as co-coordinator of the Radical Philosophy Association.
Ruth Groff is Associate Professor of Political Science and affiliated faculty with the Department of Philosophy at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is author of A Critical Introduction to Causal Powers and Dispositions (Bloomsbury, under contract), Ontology Revisited: Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy (Routledge, 2012), and Critical Realism, Post-Positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge (Routledge, 2004). She is editor of Subject & Object: Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology and Method (Bloomsbury, 2014), Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism (co-edited with John Greco) (Routledge, 2013), and Revitalizing Causality: Realism About Causality in Philosophy and Social Science (Routledge, 2008).
Tony Smith is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. He is the author of Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marx and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century (Brill, 2017), Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (Brill, 2005), Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the “New Economy” (SUNY Press, 2000), Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics: From Hegel to Analytical Marxism and Postmodernism (SUNY Press, 1993), and The Logic of Marx’s Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms (SUNY Press, 1990). He is co-editor with Fred Moseley of Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s Capital: A Reexamination (Brill, 2014) and co-editor with Bertell Ollman of Dialectics for a New Century (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007). His book A Socialism for the Twenty-first Century: Towards the “Full and Free Development of Every Individual” is forthcoming from Brill.
Tom Jeannot is Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, USA. His publications include “Personalism, atheism, and Marxist-Humanism,” “The enduring significance of the thought of Karl Marx,” “Raya Dunayevskaya’s Conception of Ultimate Reality and Meaning,” “A Marx/Dewey Dialogue on the Prospects for an American Socialism,” “Marx’s Use of Religious Metaphors,” and “Philosophical Presuppositions of Marx’s Labour Theory of Value.”
Paul Reynolds (Moderating) is a member of the Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory Editorial Board, and its book series (HM – http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/). |