Marx and singularity
Subtitle: from the early writings to the Grundrisse
By: by Luca Basso ; translated by Arianna Bove
Series: Historical materialism book series -- v. 41
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9789004233867; 9789004234420
Subjects: Individualism
Work titles: Socialità e isolamento
Description: "Marx and Singularity by Luca Basso attempts to understand the development of Marx's thought, from the early writings to the Grundrisse, as a search for individual realisation. Drawing upon the concept of singularity in contemporary French theory, and problematising its relation to Marx's vocabulary, this book challenges organicist interpretations of Marx's early work. The productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of individual realisation, stressing at the same time its distance from the modern conception of individuality. The "correlate" of singularity is the reciprocity, moving and unstable, between the "individual" and the "collective", which occurs in class struggles."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.