[Marxism] Department of unintentional humor

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sebastian Budgen wrote:
> Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism
> 
> Edited by Jacques Bidet and Stathis Kouvelakis.

Didn't Jacques invent those weird things I saw in a Paris hotel bathroom 
once?

> List price:
> € 179.00 / US$ 199.00

If this is really as important a book as represented here, why be such a 
piker? Why not charge a thousand dollars or so?

 > The work is divided into three
> parts: 'General Trends', which provides a broad intellectual and 
> historical context; 'Currents', which tracks the trajectories of twenty 
> specific currents or disciplinary fields; and 'Figures', which examines 
> in detail the work of fifteen key actors of Marxist or para-Marxist 
> theory (Adorno, Althusser, Badiou, Benjamin, Bhaskar, Bourdieu, Deleuze, 
> Derrida, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, Jameson, Lefebvre, Uno, Williams). 
> The Companion is set to be unsurpassed for many years, in breadth and 
> depth, as the definitive guide to contemporary Marxism.

Para-Marxist theory? What's that mean? "Sort of Marxist" or 
"half-Marxist"? Like paranormal? Or paramedic?

If it is a reference to Foucault, then the correct term is anti-Marxist. 
Foucault's entire career was devoted to constructing an alternative to 
Marxism. You might as well include Lacan and Lyotard.


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