Paul Mazzocchi
@abensourreader.bsky.social
Long suffering adjunct faculty in Toronto. Political theory. Puppies. Pizza. Pasketball.
https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Politics-of-Emancipation
https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442650046
https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Politics-of-Emancipation
https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442650046
Not self-promotion and I suspect you've already come across these...but just in case:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
www.academia.edu/79011135/Rei...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
www.academia.edu/79011135/Rei...
Reification: Contemporary Perspectives
Saulius Jurga, Konstantinos Kavoulakos (eds) A key philosophical theme across traditions including German Idealism, Marxism, critical theory, phenomenology, and existentialism, “reification” (from the...
www.academia.edu
July 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Not self-promotion and I suspect you've already come across these...but just in case:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
www.academia.edu/79011135/Rei...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
www.academia.edu/79011135/Rei...
Seems like it could be the case. In which case, the book on reification was reified!
June 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Seems like it could be the case. In which case, the book on reification was reified!
Per another comment, on page 7 of Adventures, Merleau-Ponty says HCC "was for a while the Bible of what was called Western communism." Then the chapter on HCC is called "'Western' Marxism." On page 59, he says that the adversaries of Lenin called themselves (in Korsch's words) "Western Marxism."
June 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Per another comment, on page 7 of Adventures, Merleau-Ponty says HCC "was for a while the Bible of what was called Western communism." Then the chapter on HCC is called "'Western' Marxism." On page 59, he says that the adversaries of Lenin called themselves (in Korsch's words) "Western Marxism."