Great stuff, but I hope it really is just the prolegomena!! Just when its hitting the peak, last two paragraphs descend into the zero books "we must liberate etc. etc" mark fisher fairy tale ending (my vigil essay is no better of course). Need more! Specifically the angle of Greece as symptom seems underdeveloped and very interesting. Have you read Lacan's lecture on Antigone?
Thank you, I really appreciate this feedback. I must admit I let my inner romantic go in the end of this, in large part inspired by a re-reading of the 1844 manuscripts. I should also say that this piece in some ways precipitates my own break(?) and intellectual "crisis" so to speak within a Marxist paradigm in the process of really trying to flesh out the Greek shadow in modernity. I have yet to read the Lacan piece, will add it to the list of things to read.
The eternal problem of Marxist essay: how to avoid the happy ending! The Antigone lecture is very readable as far as Lacan goes. You don't have to be a Lacanian to get a lot out of it. If you need a pdf I can send you. Its in seminar VII
Oh wow this looks great. Drove myself crazy once analyzing Marx's break with Hegel and then Bauer through his poetry and Oulanem; taken together with his Dissertation he almost reads like Bataille. Quotes at the beginning are taking me back. Ill read tomorrow and comment again.
Also do you mind if I ask where the Marx quote at the beginning is from? Paris notebooks? It seems familiar
Fascinating. I admittedly still need to dive into his dissertation and Oulanem more. On that note, I cant quite recall where the quote is from, but I found it in Mikhail Lifshitz' book on Marx and the philosophy of art, the first few chapters of which do address Marx's dissertation and his poetry, so you may be interested in that. I meant to use his book more in this piece, but this was written for a class originally and I was on a time crunch and didn't get to it.
As for me I read Lifshitz and was somewhat disappointed. He doesn't seem interested in Marx the young poet, certainly not beyond the dichotomy you find everywhere of (1) dismissing him as a romantic or (2) claiming ridiculously that mature Marx is already to be found here. Definitely worth reading as a short standard text but ultimately not very different from what you find in western biographies. Your treatment of the Grundrisse passage is honestly more interesting than anything I remember Lifshitz doing with it.
I plagiarized this essay. But here, you can read the original.
Great stuff, but I hope it really is just the prolegomena!! Just when its hitting the peak, last two paragraphs descend into the zero books "we must liberate etc. etc" mark fisher fairy tale ending (my vigil essay is no better of course). Need more! Specifically the angle of Greece as symptom seems underdeveloped and very interesting. Have you read Lacan's lecture on Antigone?
Thank you, I really appreciate this feedback. I must admit I let my inner romantic go in the end of this, in large part inspired by a re-reading of the 1844 manuscripts. I should also say that this piece in some ways precipitates my own break(?) and intellectual "crisis" so to speak within a Marxist paradigm in the process of really trying to flesh out the Greek shadow in modernity. I have yet to read the Lacan piece, will add it to the list of things to read.
The eternal problem of Marxist essay: how to avoid the happy ending! The Antigone lecture is very readable as far as Lacan goes. You don't have to be a Lacanian to get a lot out of it. If you need a pdf I can send you. Its in seminar VII
Oh wow this looks great. Drove myself crazy once analyzing Marx's break with Hegel and then Bauer through his poetry and Oulanem; taken together with his Dissertation he almost reads like Bataille. Quotes at the beginning are taking me back. Ill read tomorrow and comment again.
Also do you mind if I ask where the Marx quote at the beginning is from? Paris notebooks? It seems familiar
Fascinating. I admittedly still need to dive into his dissertation and Oulanem more. On that note, I cant quite recall where the quote is from, but I found it in Mikhail Lifshitz' book on Marx and the philosophy of art, the first few chapters of which do address Marx's dissertation and his poetry, so you may be interested in that. I meant to use his book more in this piece, but this was written for a class originally and I was on a time crunch and didn't get to it.
That is probably where I read it.
As for me I read Lifshitz and was somewhat disappointed. He doesn't seem interested in Marx the young poet, certainly not beyond the dichotomy you find everywhere of (1) dismissing him as a romantic or (2) claiming ridiculously that mature Marx is already to be found here. Definitely worth reading as a short standard text but ultimately not very different from what you find in western biographies. Your treatment of the Grundrisse passage is honestly more interesting than anything I remember Lifshitz doing with it.