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Title: Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory : Dethroning the Self by Warren Breckman, Robert B. Pippin ISBN: 0-521-00380-6 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Must Read
Comment: Breckman's book does not replace Toews earlier work on the Young Hegelians, but it adds significantly to it. He is, by far, at his best in discussing the relationship between Feuerbach and Stahl, at his weakest in discussing Bauer and Stirner and in danger of being tendentious or merely trivial in his discussion of Marx (but makes some good minor points on Marx's dissertation).
The key idea he brings out most clearly is the centrality of the relationship between the political debate over the appropriateness of sovereignty and the religious debate over the incarnation dogma. The analysis of Feuerbach has always needed this conceptual framework.
If we see the Young Hegelian movement as having three moments - Strauss on Jesus, Feuerbach on humanity and Bauer on critique - Breckman adds significantly to the current analysis on the second moment. For english speaking readers, the superiority of his analysis of Feuerbach to that of Wartovsky is most welcome.
Where his weaknesses are is in the area of philosophy (the unfolding of the German idealist understanding of the unity of apperception) and Marx (the resolution of of personalism in a materialist conception of a unity, rather than an identity). These weaknesses derive from his sympathy for the post-modern pluralist positions of Mouffe, Arrato&Cohen etc. [Torben Bech Dryberg's book sets out this position most effectively.] Although fashionable, this re-articulation of a much older view only gets in Breckman's way when it comes to extending his analysis beyond 1841 when the young Hegelians themselves moved beyond the pluralist (but not liberal view) Breckman likes. A telling point this about the modern reception of the Young Hegelians - see also Kouvelakis for another post-Foucault take on the Young Hegelians.
Generally good on primary sources, weak on secondary works (not necessarily a flaw!), Breckman is too harsh on Mah. His bibliography is generally excellant, with good references to english translations (although he fails, if I recall correctly, to refer to Liebich's translation of Ciezkowski). Definitiely a buy for the YH fan.
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Title: On Escape/De L'Evasion: = De L'Evasion (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Emmanuel Levinas, Bettina Bergo ISBN: 0804741409 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: German Philosophy 1760-1860 : The Legacy of Idealism by Terry Pinkard ISBN: 0521663814 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay ISBN: 0393007707 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1975 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 1859842917 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou, Justin Clemens, Oliver Feltham ISBN: 0826467245 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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