TY - BOOK AU - Barbour,Charles TI - The Marx Machine: Politics, Polemics, Ideology SN - 9780739176078 AV - JC233.M299 B39 2012 U1 - 320.532 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - Marx, Karl, KW - Political Theory of the State KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Marx, Karl KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Political and social views KW - Political Science KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Ideologies KW - Communism & Socialism KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - hilcc KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; THE MARX MACHINE; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Another Marx; The Leipzig Massacre; The Battle of the Huns; Bodies and Machines; A Schematic Design; Of Multiple Breaks: Marx in Res Publica; The Machinic Assemblage; Marx Reads Marx; To Swerve Away; On Popular Sovereignty; Human, Citizen, Worker; The Weavers' Strike; Revolution and Insurrection; After the Political; Copying Machines: Reading "The Leipzig Council"; A Pivotal Text; The Tattered Page; The Reading Lesson; Diabolical Doubles; Relation and Exchange; Ideology and Catachresis; Proper Names; The Place of HegemonyThe Fractured Essence: On Historical Materialism; Substance and Form; Historical Materialisms; The Demolition of Substance; Transforming Feuerbach; The Fractured Essence; The Impure Form; Circle or Line; Epicurean Differánce; Allegories of Writing: Marx and Literature; Writing Marx Reading; The House of Mirrors; Ghosts in the Machine; The Original Excess; The Double Scene; The Virtue of Machines; Parody and Equality; Conclusion: Marx and Us; A Final Obligation; The New Republicans; The Axiom of Equality; Parts With No Part; Bibliography; Index N2 - This book employs recently developed techniques of literary criticism, philosophical argumentation, and bibliographical or manuscript analysis to bring Marx's early works, and especially his early polemics, into conversation with his most contemporary, post-Marxist critics. It argues that some of Marx's best known concepts - ideology and historical materialism, for example - in fact represent responses to the kinds of arguments that many people mount against them today UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=469366 ER -