1st Edition
The Crisis of Marxism A Historical-Intellectual Problem
Preface to the English Edition. Prologue. Introduction: Crisis of Ideas and Ideas of Crisis: Marxism as a Laboratory. PART I: Marxism’s Truth and Knowledge in the “Short 20th Century” 1. Knowledge without Truth: (Perry Anderson and Fredric Jameson: Marxism and Postmodernism) 2. Trotskyism as the Implicit Truth of Marxism: Nahuel Moreno: History, Contingency, and Tragic Sense PART II: Marxism in the Post-Tragic Scene 3. Truth as a Postulate: Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek: The Real and the Imaginary of Marxism 4. Truth as Promise: Jacques Derrida and His Specters 5. Truth as a Bet: Alain Badiou and the “Experience of the Disaster” Epilogue: The Quest for the Politics of Our Time
Biography
Elías J. Palti obtained his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a consulting professor at the University of Buenos Aires and formerly was the director of the Center for Intellectual History at the National University of Quilmes and a principal researcher at Argentina's National Research Council (CONICET). Palti has published widely in the field of intellectual history across six different languages. His more recent publications include An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2017), Misplaced Ideas: Political-Intellectual History in Latin America (2024), and Political-Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change (2024).
