Analytic Marxism & the Pittsburgh School

Instructor: Carl Sachs Date & Time: July 17, 24 ,31, August 7 09:00-11:30 ET

DESCRIPTION: The neo-Hegelianism of Robert Brandom, John McDowell, and others invites the question of how we might re-imagine Marx and Marxism in light of analytic neo-Hegelianism. Do these new readings of Hegel as a philosopher of mind and of language make contact with the dimensions of Hegel that Marx appropriated, revised, and criticized? Can we understand capitalism as a distortion in the space of reasons or ideology as a cognitive-perceptual error? How can we merge the Marxist emphasis on labor with the analytic emphasis on language? We shall explore the possibility that reconciling the analytic emphasis on language and the Marxist emphasis on labor may require taking seriously aspects of Hegel that have not yet been taken up by analytic neo-Hegelianism, such as the concept of life.

IMAGE: El Lissitzky, Movable Display for the Bookstore Window of the Publishing Land and Factory, detail, circa 1930s

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