Marx’s reading of Greek atomism informs his uncompromisingly materialist stance, something we will inspect more closely further on in the chapter. At this point, suffice it to say that the contradiction that underpins Epicurean atomism, according to young Marx, is …
Chapter on Dialectics, Materialism, Change: From Epicurus to Marx via Aristotle
Marx’s study of the species being of humanity institutes itself as a science thatdeals with value production and the relation of value to material reality. Thisis obviously a metaphysical question, but the suggested approach is scientific.Therefore, the science to be …
Presentation at the Panel Wither Real Abstraction?, Historical Materialism London Conference – Online 2020 Abstract: Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s epistemology enables a materialist account of the abstractions embodied by the species being of humanity, i.e., the “social relations” that include the questions …
The Radical Dyad of the Non-Human: Thinking Inequality Beyond Identity as Reification
The physical and the automaton, introducing the radical dyad of the non-human By abandoning the principle of philosophical sufficiency in the analysis of the dialectics between thought and the real, following Laruelle and Marx, we arrive at the determination in …