Revolution without Marx?

Rousseau, Kant and Hegel

Revolution without Marx?

 November 1, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Introduction BOURGEOIS SOCIETY CAME INTO FULL RECOGNITION WITH ROUSSEAU, who in the *Discourse on the Origin of Inequality* and On the Social Contract, opened its radical critique. Hegel wrote: “The principle of freedom dawned on the world in Rousseau.” Marx quoted Rousseau favorably that “Whoever dares undertake to establish a people’s institutions must feel himself capable of changing, as it were, human nature… to take from man his own powers, and give him in exchange alien powers which he cannot employ without the help of other men. [Read More]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Immanuel Kant  Jean-Jacques Rousseau  Karl Marx 

History of Humanity

1600-1763

 July 27, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A lecture by Platypus member James Vaughn upon the history of humanity between 1600 and 1763, given as part of the Platypus summer 2011 radical bourgeois philosophy reading group. Held on July 27, 2011 in Philadelphia. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description Platypus Summer Reading Group 2011: Radical Bourgeois Philosophy Rousseau-Smith-Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche We will address the greater context for Marx and Marxism through the issue of bourgeois radicalism in philosophy in the 18 and 19 Centuries. [Read More]
Philadelphia Media  Bourgeois  Bourgeois revolution  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Immanuel Kant  Liberal  Liberalism  Karl Marx  Friedrich Nietzsche  Radical bourgeois philosophy  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

The History of Humanity

Pre-1750

 June 30, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A lecture by Platypus member James Vaughn upon the history of humanity up to 1750, given as part of the Platypus summer 2011 radical bourgeois philosophy reading group. Held on June 30, 2011 at New York University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description Platypus Summer Reading Group 2011: Radical Bourgeois Philosophy Rousseau-Smith-Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche We will address the greater context for Marx and Marxism through the issue of bourgeois radicalism in philosophy in the 18 and 19 Centuries. [Read More]
Bourgeois  Bourgeois revolution  Bourgeois Revolutions  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Immanuel Kant  Friedrich Nietzsche  Pre-1750s  Radical bourgeois philosophy  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

After Hegel

After Hegel

 June 1, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON MARCH 14, 2011, Omair Hussain publicly interviewed Robert Pippin, on behalf of Platypus, at an event titled On the Possibility of What Isn’t at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Robert Pippin is a professor on the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, and the author of numerous works on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. [Read More]
Art  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Immanuel Kant  Karl Marx  Marxism  Robert Pippin  Enlightenment  Theodor W. Adorno 

Chinoiserie

A critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA's 'New Synthesis'"

Chinoiserie

 August 5, 2010  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Review of ‘Communism: The Beginning of a New Stage’, a Manifesto from the RCP, USA; and Raymond Lotta, Nayi Duniya, and K. J. A., ‘Alain Badiou’s ‘Politics of Emancipation’: A Communism Locked Within the Confines of the Bourgeois World’ Demarcations 1 (Summer – Fall 2009). Communism: The Beginning of a New Stage. Lotta et al. is available online. Prologue DAVID BHOLAT ADOPTED, as epigraph for his essay “Beyond Equality,” the following passage from Joseph Schumpeter’s classic 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: [Read More]
Alain Badiou  Bob Avakian  Cultural Revolution  David Bholat  Joseph Schumpeter  Immanuel Kant  Vladimir Lenin  Maoism  Karl Marx  Marxism  RCP (USA)  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Adorno and Freud

The relation of Freudian psychoanalysis to Marxist critical social theory

Adorno and Freud

 June 10, 2010  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

ADORNO’S HABILITATIONSSCHRIFT was on Kant and Freud. It ended with Marx. Why did Adorno think that Marx addressed the problems of both Kantian and Freudian accounts of consciousness? The distinction between Kant and Freud turns on the psychoanalytic concept of the “unconscious,” the by-definition unknowable portion of mental processes, the unthought thoughts and unfelt feelings that are foreign to Kant’s rational idealism. Kant’s “critical” philosophy was concerned with how we can know what we know, and what this revealed about our subjectivity. [Read More]
Sigmund Freud  Immanuel Kant  Karl Marx  Theodor W. Adorno