Marxian Hermeneutics and Heideggerian Social Theory: Interpreting and Transforming Our World

........................................................................................................................... 3 PREFACE .............................................................................................................................. 6 CONTENTS............................................................................................................................ 9 PART I: INTERPRETING MARX AND HEIDEGGER IN OUR WORLD............................... 11 CHAPTER I. THE ALTERNATIVE OF MARX AND HEIDEGGER ............................................... 12 Interpretation for Transformation.......................................................................... 12 Interpreting Marx and Heidegger Together........................................................... 15 The Hermeneutic Context ..................................................................................... 18 CHAPTER II. HEIDEGGER’S CRITIQUE OF MARX ................................................................. 23 Heidegger’s Early Criticisms ................................................................................ 23 Political Distortions .............................................................................................. 25 Heidegger’s Mature Criticisms ............................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III. A MARXIST CRITIQUE OF HEIDEGGER .......................................................... 35 Adorno’s Early Criticisms..................................................................................... 35 Adorno’s Methodology of Critique....................................................................... 37 Adorno’s Mature Criticisms.................................................................................. 38 PART II. KARL MARX: IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE AS INTERPRETATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD ................................................................................... 41 CHAPTER IV. ANTICIPATIONS: THE EARLY WORKS........................................................... 42 The Primacy of Commodity Production for Interpretation ................................... 43 The Alienated World............................................................................................. 47 Ideology Critique and the Transformation of the World....................................... 50 CHAPTER V. RESEARCH: THE GRUNDRISSE ........................................................................ 55 Materialistic Conceptualizations for the Self-Interpretation of the World ........... 55 Historically-specific Conceptualizations .............................................................. 64 Retrospective Interpretation of the History of Property Relations........................ 71 CHAPTER VI. PRESENTATION: CAPITAL .............................................................................. 81 The Form of Value of Commodities ..................................................................... 81 Abstract Labor in Theory and Practice.................................................................. 87Labor in Theory and Practice.................................................................. 87 Fetishism as Appearance and Reality.................................................................... 92