#Gareth Stedman Jones

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As Barnett put it, 'if one sentence could explain the principle of our work, it is that we aim at decreasing, not suffering but sin.' The onslaught was many-sided and intended to reform every phase of working-class life, from infancy to old age. Thus the C.O.S. attacked the London School Board for providing boots to enable the poorest children to attend school. In its advice to the School Board Visitors, the society stated that it had 'to consider, in the individual case, what the more general effect of its actions would be, if carried out on a large scale in similar cases, e.g. the gift of boots to enable children to attend school, if frequently made and widely known, would tend to make parents neglect to send their children to school in order to get the boots.'

~Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society by Gareth Stedman Jones

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Biography Mondays: Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, by Gareth Stedman Jones

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is an indispensable volume, an epic about a man and his times.

Via Reviews of Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs Karl Marx. The name itself conjures up demonologies and hagiographies, depending where one lands on the ideological spectrum. Hyper-prolific writer. Professional revolutionary. Academic philosopher. Intellectual genius. Pedant, hypocrite, poetaster. Victim of personal financial calamities and personal health problems. One could go on…

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Crisis and Critique

What is critical theory, and whence the notion of critique as a practical stance towards the world? Using these questions as a point of departure, this course takes critical theory as its field of inquiry. Part of the course will be devoted to investigating what critique is, starting with the etymological and conceptual affinity it shares with crisis: since the Enlightenment, so one line of argument goes, all grounds for knowledge are subject to criticism, which is understood to generate a sense of escalating historical crisis culminating in a radical renewal of the intellectual and social order. We will explore the efficacy of modern critical thought, and the concept of critique’s efficacy, by examining a series of attempts to narrate and amplify states of crisis – and correspondingly transform key concepts such as self, will, time, and world – in order to provoke a transformation of society. The other part of the course will be oriented towards understanding current critical movements as part of the Enlightenment legacy of critique, and therefore as studies in the practical implications of critical readings. Key positions in critical discourse will be discussed with reference to the socio-political conditions of their formation and in the context of their provenance in the history of philosophy, literature, and cultural theory. Required readings will include works by Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Benjamin and others, with suggested readings and references drawn from a variety of source materials ranging from literary and philosophical texts to visual images, film, and architecture. You are invited to work on your individual interests with respect to the readings.

Week 1                                                                                              

Critique, krinein, crisis (Koselleck, Adorno)

 Required Reading

Reinhart Koselleck, “Crisis,” Journal of the History of Ideas 67.2 (2006), 357-400.

—, Chapters 7 and 8, Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1988 [German original, 1959].

Adorno and Horkheimer, "The Concept of Enlightenment," in Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. John Cumming (New York: Continuum, 1989), pp. 3-42.

 Recommended Reading

Michel Foucault, “What is Enlightenment?” in The Foucault Reader. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984: 32-50.

—, The Politics of Truth. New York: Semiotext(e), 1997.

Friedrich Hölderlin, “Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter,” in Hyperion and Selected Poems. Ed. by Eric Santner. Translated by Michael Hamburger. New York: Continuum, 1990: 150-151.

  Week 2          

Judgment and Imagination (Kant)

 Required Reading

Immanuel Kant, “Preface [A and B],” in Critique of Pure Reason. Translated and edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 99-124.  

—, “Preface” and “Introduction,” in Critique of Practical Reason, in Practical Philosophy, trans. Mary Gregor (Cambridge UP, 1996), pp. 139-149.

—, §§1-5, 59-60 of Critique of the Power of Judgment, trans. Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews (Cambridge UP, 2000), pp. 89-96, 225-230.

—, “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose,” in Kant: Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 (2nd ed.): 41-53, 273.

—, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? [1784],” in Practical Philosophy. Translated by Mary J. Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999: 11-22.

 Recommended Reading

Immanuel Kant, "Analytic of the Sublime," in Critique of Judgment. Translated by James Creed Meredith; revised, edited, and introduced by Nicholas Walker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007: 75-164.

Theodor Adorno, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (2001 [1959])

Henry Allison, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism (2004)

Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy (1992)

Geoffrey Bennington, “Kant’s Open Secret”, Theory, Culture and Society 28.7-8(2011): 26-40.

J.M. Bernstein, The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (1992)

Graham Bird, The Revolutionary Kant (2006)

Andrew Bowie, Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche (1990, 2003)

Howard Caygill, The Kant Dictionary (2000)

Ernst Cassirer, Kant's Life and Thought (1981)

Gilles Deleuze, Kant's Critical Philosophy (1984)

Will Dudley and Kristina Engelhard (eds.) Immanuel Kant: Key Concepts (2010)

Paul Guyer, Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment: Critical Essays (2003)

Martin Heidegger, Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1997)

Laura Hengehold, The BODY Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault (2007)

Otfried Höffe, Immanuel Kant (1994)

Jean-François Lyotard, L’Enthousiasme: La critique kantienne de l’histoire. Paris: L’Éditions Galilée, 1986.

Rudolf Makkreel, Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: The Hermaneutic Import of the Critique of Judgment (1990)

Jean-Luc Nancy, A Finite Thinking (2003)

Andrea Rehberg and Rachel Jones (eds.), The Matter of Critique: Readings in Kant’s Philosophy (2000)

Philip Rothfield (ed.), Kant after Derrida (2003)

Rei Terada, Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno (2009)

Yirmiahu Yovel, Kant and the Philosophy of History (1989)

  Week 3          

Recognition and the Other (Hegel)

 Required Reading

G.W.F. Hegel, “The Truth of Self-Certainty” and “Lordship and Bondage,” in The Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by Terry Pinkard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018: 102-116.

—, “The Art-Religion,” in The Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by Terry Pinkard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018: 403-430.

 Recommended Reading

G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction [§§1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8], in Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. Translated by T.M. Knox. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975: 1-14; 22-55; 69-90.

Stuart Barnett (ed.), Hegel after Derrida (2001)

Frederick Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (1993)

Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009)

Rebecca Comay, Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (2011)

Rebecca Comay and John McCumber (eds.), Endings: Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger (1999)

Eva Geulen, The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Werner Hamacher, “(The End of Art with the Mask),” in Stuart Barnett (ed.), Hegel after Derrida. London and New York: Routledge, 1998: 105-130.

Werner Hamacher, “The Reader’s Supper: A Piece of Hegel,” trans. Timothy Bahti, diacritics 11.2 (1981): 52-67.

H.S. Harris, Hegel: Phenomenology and System (1995)

Stephen Houlgate, An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History (2005)

Stephen Houlgate, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (2013)

Fredric Jameson, The Hegel Variations (2010)

Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel. Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.

Terry Pinkard, Hegel: A Biography (2001)

  Week 4          

Revolution … (Marx)

 Required Reading

Karl Marx, “I: Feuerbach,” The German Ideology, in Collected Works vol. 5. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976: 27-93.

Karl Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach," available online (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm)  

 Week 5

... and Repetition (Marx)

 Required Reading

Karl Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy [1859], in Collected Works vol. 29. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976: 261-165.

—, “Postface to the Second Edition” and “Chapter 1: The Commodity,” in Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Trans. by B. Fowkes. London: Penguin, 1990: 95-103 and 125-177.

 Recommended Reading

Louis Althusser, For Marx (1969)

Hannah Arendt, “Karl Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought”, Social Research 69.2 (2002): 273-319.

Étienne Balibar, The Philosophy of Marx (1995, 2007)

Ernst Bloch, On Karl Marx (1971)

Andrew Chitty and Martin McIvor (eds.), Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy (2009)

Simon Choat, Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze (2010)

Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International. New York and London: Routledge, 1994.

Werner Hamacher, “Lingua Amissa: The Messianism of Commodity-Language and Derrida’s Specters of Marx” (1999)

Jean Hyppolite, Studies on Marx and Hegel (1969)

Sarah Kofman, Camera Obscura: Of Ideology (1998)

Peter Singer, Marx: A Very Short Introduction (1980)

Michael Sprinker (ed.), Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1999, 2008)

Moishe Postone, History and Heteronomy: Critical Essays (2009)

Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory (1993)

Jacques Rancière, “The Concept of ‘Critique’ and the ‘Critique of Political Economy’ (from the 1844 Manuscript to Capital)”, Economy and Society 5.3 (1976): 352-376.

Tom Rockmore, Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx (2002)

Gareth Stedman-Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (2016)

  Week 6

Tutorial Week

  Week 7          

Will to Becoming Otherwise (Nietzsche)

 Required Reading

Friedrich Nietzsche, "Preface" and "First Treatise," in On the Genealogy of Morality. Trans. by Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen. Indianopolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 1998: 1-33.

  Week 8                                                                                                                      

Ascetic Ideal and Eternal Return (Nietzsche)

 Required Reading

Friedrich Nietzsche, "Second Treatise" and "Third Treatise," in On the Genealogy of Morality. Trans. by Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen. Indianopolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 1998: 35-118.

Recommended Reading

Friedrich Nietzsche, §§341-342 of The Gay Science

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Vision and Riddle” and “The Convalescent,” in Thus Spake Zarathustra III

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense,” in: The Birth of Tragedy and other writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life,” in: Untimely Meditations. Trans. by R.J. Hollingdale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Jacques Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History," in Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. Ed. by D. F. Bouchard. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977: 139-164.

R. Kevin Hill, Nietzsche’s Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of his Thought (2003)

Luce Irigaray, Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche. Trans. by Gillian C. Gill. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Trans. by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Gianni Vattimo, The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture. Trans. by Jon R. Snyder. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Alenka Zupančič, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two (2003)

  Week 9          

Repetition Compulsion (Freud)

 Required Reading

Sigmund Freud, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” [excerpts], in Peter Gay (ed.), The Freud Reader. London: Vintage, 1995: 594-625.

Recommended Reading

Theodor Adorno, “Revisionist Psychoanalysis,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 40.3 (2014): 326-338.

Louis Althusser, Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan (1996)

Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love (2012)

Leo Bersani, The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (1986)

Rebecca Comay, “Resistance and Repetition: Freud and Hegel,” Research in Phenomenology 45 (2015): 237-266.

Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (1995)

Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (1987)

Mladen Dolar, “Freud and the Political,” Unbound 4.15 (2008): 15-29.

Sarah Kofman, Freud and Fiction (1991)

Jacques Lacan, “The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious; or Reason after Freud”, in Écrits: A Selection. Trans. by A. Sheridan. New York: Norton, 1977: 146-175.

Catherine Malabou, “Plasticity and Elasticity in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” Diacritics 37.4 (2007): 78-85.

Jean-Luc Nancy, "System of (Kantian) Pleasure (With a Freudian Postscript)," in Kant after Derrida. Ed. by Phil Rothfield. Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2003: 127-141.

Angus Nicholls and Martin Liebscher (eds.), Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought (2010)

Charles Sheperdson, Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis (2000)

Samuel Weber, The Legend of Freud. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Alenka Zupančič, Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan. London: Verso, 2012 [reprint].

  Week 10        

Crisis of European Humankind (Husserl)

 Required Reading

Edmund Husserl, §§1-7 and §§10-21, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Trans. by David Carr. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970: 2-18; 60-84.

Recommended Reading

Edmund Husserl, “Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity [Vienna Lecture],” in The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Trans. by David Carr. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970: 269-299.

Jacques Derrida, The Other Heading: Reflections on Today’s Europe. Trans. by Pascale Anne Brault and Michael B. Naas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992: 4-83.

Paul de Man, “Criticism and Crisis,” in Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971: 3-19.

James Dodd, Crisis and Reflection: An Essay on Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences (2004)

Burt C. Hopkins, The Philosophy of Husserl (2011)

David Hyder and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences (2010)

Leonard Lawlor, Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology (2002)

Dermot Moran, The Husserl Dictionary (2012)

Paul Valéry, "Notes on the Greatness and Decline of Europe” and “The European,” in History and Politics. Trans. Denise Folliot and Jackson Matthews. New York: Bollingen, 1962: 228; 311-12.

David Woodruff Smith, Husserl (2007)

Barry Smith and David Woodruff Smith (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Husserl (1995)

  Week 11        

Crisis-Proof Experience (Benjamin)

 Required Reading

Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire,” in Selected Writings vol. 4. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003: 313-355.

 Recommended Reading

Walter Benjamin, "Experience and Poverty"

—, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility”

—, “Theses on the Concept of History”

—, “Epistemo-Critical Prologue,” in The Origin of German Tragic Drama. Trans. by John Osborne. London and New York: Verso, 2003: 27-56.

—, “Convolute J,” The Arcades Project

—, The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire (2006)

Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, “Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on ‘The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire,” in Benjamin, Selected Writings vol. 4 (1999).

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil; The Painter of Modern Life

Ian Balfour, “Reversal, Quotation (Benjamin’s History)”, Modern Language Notes 106.3 (1991): 622-647.

Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (1997)

Tom Gunning, “The Exterior as Intérieur: Benjamin’s Optical Detective,” boundary 2 30.1 (2003).

Werner Hamacher, “Now: Benjamin on Historical Time” (2001; 2005)

General Background

Julian Wolfreys (ed.), Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide (2006) Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001) Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism (2002)

Andrew Bowie, Introduction to German Philosophy: From Kant to Habermas (2003)

Kai Hammermeister, The German Aesthetic Tradition (2002) Gary Gutting, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (2001)

Eric Matthews, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy (1996)

Jonathan Simons (ed.), From Kant to Lévi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory (2002)

Learning Outcomes

-       You will have a grasp of the broad trends in the development of critical theory.

-       You will have a good understanding of how different modern philosophical traditions from German Idealism to Phenomenology inform the different strains of critical theory.

-       You will be able to expound and analyse the ways in which a range of different writers and tendencies in the history of modern thought conceive of the specificity of critique.

-       You will have a sound grasp of the primary and secondary literatures in critical theory, both on general issues and specific thinkers or schools.

-       You will be able to use the ideas and texts explored in the module to inform your readings in critical theoretical texts.

 Assessment Criteria

-       Students should show a clear command of how their chosen thinker(s) and texts relate to the broader trajectories of critical theory.

-       Students should show a detailed critical knowledge of at least two of the module’s key thinkers or theoretical tendencies.

-       Students should show a knowledge and capacity to use a good range of secondary literature on both general issues in the field and on the specific thinkers and texts they address.

-       Students should be able to read the relevant texts from both critical and genealogical perspectives.

-       Students should demonstrate their capacity to develop a distinctive and coherent interpretative and analytical perspective on their chosen subject.

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I really recommending reading Gareth stedman Jones's essay 'the meaning of the student revolt' on the dilemma of higher education as like a capitalist production line.......but ironically I'm only able to read this through institutional access.....the student only understands her subservience within the accepted framework of the ceo of higher education 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️

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[Karl Marx] emphasized [capitalism's] inherent tendency to invent new needs and the means to satisfy them, its subversion of all inherited cultural practices and beliefs, its disregard of all boundaries, whether sacred or secular, its destabilization of every hallowed hierarchy, whether of ruler and ruled, man and woman or parent and child, its turning of everything into an object for sale.

Gareth Stedman Jones in the introduction of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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Libro sugerido el 5 de mayo del 2018, bicentenario del nacimiento de Karl Marx.

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“For historians endeavoring to explain how social welfare and carceral institutions imposed a work ethic, “social control theory” seemingly held considerable explanatory power. Michael Katz, Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward and others mounted a scathing critique of liberal social welfare and its predilection for obscuring its punitive authority behind gossamers of good intentions.51 Yet Gareth Stedman Jones has argued that social control theory is tautological and fails to acknowledge the diversity of agents, from the working class to the elite, who have created, affirmed and experienced liberalism’s ideological confines. It would be foolish to argue that “capitalists of leisure” were the dominant agents who capitalized on and regulated the workless, especially given the preponderance of middle- and lower-class moral reformers and religious charities that contrived to reform and care for the indigent.52 Similarly, Foucault suggests that the state is neither a “cold monster” nor a “certain number of functions,” and should not be understood as a “puppet show policeman overpowering the different figures of history.” 53 Yet such criticism should not be wielded as evidence that good intentions are ahistorical “moral virtues,” divorced from class relations. As Piven and Cloward insist, “humanitarianism . . . has its roots in the aspirations of the subordinated . . . to curb the power of their rulers.”54 Securing the consent of the unemployed has been less important to the ruling powers than winning the approval of the “employed” classes.” - David Thompson, “Working-Class Anguish and Revolutionary Indignation: The Making of Radical and Socialist Unemployment Movements in Canada, 1875-1928.” PhD Thesis, Queen’s University, 2014. pp. 17-18.

51 Katz, “Origins of the Institutional State,” Marxist Perspectives 1 (Winter 1978): 6-22; Michael B. Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America (New York: Basic Books, 1996); Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (New York: Vintage Books, 1993). The term “social control” was first used at the fin de siècle and, until being spun as coercive by leftist scholars in the late 1960s, “social control” was viewed favourably as a means for progress. See James Leiby, “Social Control and Historical Explanation: Historians View the Piven and Cloward Thesis,” in Social Welfare or Social Control?, 97. 

52 In addition, Jones challenges the “synchronic” nature of social control theory, which far from buttressing a Marxist analysis, stresses “class conflict” as a “permanent feature, not a sign of breakdown.” Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p 80. None of these critiques of social control deserve to be applied to the work of Piven and Cloward. They were well aware that class conflict was historically contingent and that a variety of agents held diverse reasons for their supposed “humanitarianism.” But, they insist intentions are often “confused, contradictory, [and] half understood” and that it is the scholar’s job to pinpoint “whose intentions matter.” See Piven and Cloward, “Humanitarianism in History,” 119. 

53 Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 6; Michel Foucault, “Governmentality,” in Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3, ed. James D. Faubion (New York: The New Press, 2000), 220-221.

54 Piven and Cloward, “Humanitarianism in History,” 117

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1808 - Charles Fourier: In the utopian world, women will finally be free

Fourier explains the operation of the universe with a large-scale utopian theory.

God controls the world with extensive, universal movements. There are four groups of universal movements: social, animal, organic and material. With social movement, God regulates the social functioning of creatures. With animal movement, God implants passion and instincts in living beings; the organic movement gives them various qualities such as shape and color. With the material movement, God stands behind and rules mass attraction as well.

Human passion is present in every creature of God. This is because the social movement is stronger than the other three movements. For example, according to Fourier, the stars of the Milky Way symbolize friendship, solar planets stand for love, planets and moons represent the father-child connection, and the stationary stars of the universe symbolize aspiration.

He explains that the duration of social movement is 80,000 years, which consists of four stages. The first 7,000 years are the era of unhappiness. Then it is a time of happiness for the next 70,000 years. Finally, human history ends with another unhappy phase of 7,000 years. Fourier believes that in 1808, the year of his publication, humanity just passed 7,000 years of unhappiness, and it is in transition to a happy era that lasts for 70,000 years.

The next stage will be a complete renewal. Many surprising events await humanity: barbaric, uncivilized ethnic groups are industrializing, a unified world language becomes reality, as well as a unified system of weights and measures, and a unified writing. At this utopian stage, slaves and women will finally be free.

Charles Fourier: The Theory of the Four Movements (1808.)

ed. Gareth Stedman Jones and Ian Patterson, translated by Ian Patterson

Cambridge University Press, 1996, p.21-43

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durée : 01:48:53 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - Pour les uns, il était le grand prophète. Pour les autres, il incarnait le mal absolu. Durant tout le XXe siècle, Marx et sa pensée sont déformés, caricaturés, puis oubliés pour devenir méconnaissables.Traversée d'un siècle de marxismes sans Marx. Une série de Christine Lecerf et Franck Lilin. - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Alix Bouffard doctorante en philosophie; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à la Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'histoire de l'Allemagne; Pauline Clochec maîtresse de conférences en philosophie; Jean-Numa Ducange Maître de conférences en histoire politique et sociale des XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe à l’université de Rouen; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Rolf Hecker économiste; Jürgen Herres historien; Frank Hirschmann historien; Gerald Hubmann directeur de l'édition complète des oeuvres de Marx et Engels; Michel Husson économiste à l'IRES, membre du conseil scientifique d'Attac et de la Fondation Copernic; Eberhard Illner historien; Christian Jansen historien; Michael Krätke économiste; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Richard Leukefeld libraire; Jacques Paparo archiviste; Michelle Perrot historienne, professeure émérite d’histoire contemporaine à l'université Paris-Diderot.; Michael Sanders professeur de littérature du XIXe siècle, University of Manchester; Ingo Schulze Ecrivain; Lucien Sève philosophe; Gareth Stedman Jones historien; Monique Van der Pal archiviste source https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/grandes-traversees-karl-marx-linconnu/sous-les-drapeaux-rouges

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Marx’s masterwork is as relevant as ever

Karl Marx

On 14 September 1867 Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I, was published in Hamburg. Marx told a friend after he had personally delivered the manuscript to the publisher, “It is without question the most terrible missile that has yet been hurled at the heads of the bourgeoisie”.

Mainstream opinion—expressed for example in recent biographies by Jonathan Sperber and Gareth Stedman-Jones—consistently portrays Capital as stillborn. They portray it as a work that was out-of-date when it was published, and that certainly has nothing to say to us in the 21st century.

This fails to explain why there is a growing interest in Capital today. There have been conferences to mark its 150th anniversary all over the world. I took part in one in Brazil last month, and am involved in another this week sponsored by King’s College London. The success of the YouTube lectures on Capital by another participant, David Harvey, is a sign of the contemporary appetite to understand Marx’s critique of capitalism.

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After all, 14 September wasn’t just the day Capital, Volume I, was first published. It was also the 10th anniversary of the run on Northern Rock, when depositors queued outside branches of the bank to get their money back. It was the first run on a British bank since Marx’s day—the collapse of Overend, Gurney & Co in 1866.

The run on Northern Rock was the moment that the global economic and financial crisis became visible to the naked eye. We are still living with the after-effects of this crisis. The confusion reigning in capitalist circles is evident among central banks such as the US Federal Reserve Board and the Bank of England. They hesitate over whether they dare risk raising interest rates above the rock-bottom levels they reached during the crisis....

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Men’s Squads Named For HSBC New Zealand Sevens

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By SPORT EDITOR FOR SUSTAIN HEALTH 

PUBLISHED: 04:22, 24 January 2020 | UPDATED: 05:28, 24 January 2020

The 16 international men’s teams taking part in this weekend’s HSBC New Zealand Sevens have officially announced their squads.

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Taking place at the FMG Stadium in Hamilton on 25-26 January, the HSBC New Zealand Sevens is the third tournament in the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 following Dubai and Cape Town last month. The hosts have made three changes to the squad that came from behind to defeat South Africa 7-5 in the HSBC Cape Town Sevens final last month. Both Etene Nanai-Seturo and Vilimoni Koroi, who made their world series debuts in Wellington in 2017, will make their first appearances on the 2020 series this weekend alongside Sione Molia who last featured in Dubai.

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“We’ve been training hard the last couple of weeks and we’ve got a couple of new boys coming in this weekend who will hopefully lift the level again,” said co-captain Tim Mikkelson. “For our assistant coach Tomasi Cama this will be his 100th tournament either playing or as a coach so that’s a special milestone that we want to respect and we’ll be doing everything this weekend for him.” Drawn in Pool A, the All Blacks Sevens will face Scotland – who have named one debutant, Paddy Kelly, in an otherwise unchanged side – and Wales who have made three changes for Hamilton. Both Scottish and Welsh players – alongside England – will be vying for a spot in the Team GB Olympic squad which will form later this year when head coach Simon Amor will make his selection for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Their final Pool A encounter will be against USA, whose captain Madison Hughes (pictured) will become the fifth USA player to reach 50 events in a country where he made his world series debut in 2014. He will lead a squad that features Ben Pinkelman and Martin Iosefo, who were rested for Dubai and Cape Town after playing at Rugby World Cup 2019. South Africa, who took the opening title of the 2020 season in Dubai, make seven changes from Cape Town due to injuries and players returning to Super Rugby. The new faces for this event include Stedman Gans, who is named as captain, and South Africa’s all-time leading point scorer Cecil Afrika. “For us as a team this season has been good so far, we showed some good rugby in Dubai and Cape Town and I think that’s a good foundation for us to build on,” said Gans. “Our preparation started early in January, so we have prepared well leading up to Hamilton and we are very excited.” South Africa will play in Pool B alongside Kenya, England and invitational side Japan. Following the announcement that Amor will join Eddie Jones’ Six Nations coaching set-up, former England player and assistant coach James Rodwell will take the reins as head coach for Hamilton, Sydney, Los Angeles and Vancouver. Rodwell has made five changes to England’s squad for this weekend, including 18-year-old debutant Alfie Johnson and captain Tom Mitchell, who makes his long-awaited return from injury. Mitchell last played in Singapore 2019 with this weekend’s tournament marking his 60th series event. Kenya have made three changes to their squad with their most-capped player Collins Injera, who last played in Paris 2018, poised to also play his 60th series event in Hamilton, while Japan have made eight with only Fisipuna Tuiaki, Chihito Matsui, Ryota Kano and Yoshikazu Fujita backing up from Cape Town. Pool C features France, Ireland, Canada and Spain. France, who beat Fiji for the first time since Cape Town 2015 to win the bronze medal in the same city last month, have made one change to their side with their leading points scorer Terry Bouhraoua returning after missing out in South Africa. 2020 series newcomers Ireland make two changes, while Canada and Spain make two and four, respectively. Defending series champions Fiji, who failed to reach the Cup quarter-finals in Dubai for the first time in HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series history, finishing ninth will be looking to reestablish their form in Hamilton this weekend where they have been victorious for the last two years. Apenesia Cakaubalavu, who was called up as an injury replacement in Cape Town, Livai Ikanikoda and Asaeli Ratuvuaka are the three new players named by Gareth Baber for this weekend. Elsewhere in Pool D, Lewis Holland needs one try to become Australia’s out-right all-time top try-scorer in series history in what will be his 50th series event. Head coach Tim Walsh has named six changes with newly-named captain Nick Malouf – who missed out on Cape Town due to injury – one of them. The other Pool D contenders, Argentina and Samoa, have made three and four changes, respectively. The action gets underway at the FMG Stadium at 11:57 local time (GMT+13) on Saturday when Ireland take on Canada. Tickets for Saturday and Sunday are available online at www.sevens.co.nz

Follow the action unfold on www.world.rugby/sevens or @WorldRugby7s

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