Philosophy after Marx: 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy (Historical Materialism Book Series, 65)

Book info: Philosophy after Marx: 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy (Historical Materialism Book Series, 65) (Hardcover, 676 pages) – Brill, 2014. Language: English.

Christoph Henning writes a concise history of misreadings of Marx in the 20th century. Focussing on German philosophy from Heidegger to Habermas, he also addresses the influence of Rawls and Neopragmatism, subsequently scrutinizing a previous history of Marx-interpretations that had served as the premises upon which these later works were based. Henning sketches a historical trajectory in which a theory of socialist politics enters the fields of economics, sociology, critical theory and theology, before finally – overloaded with intellectually dead freight – entering into philosophy. In so doing, he takes a hermeneutic approach to how misreadings in a specific field proliferate into further misreadings across a variety of fields, leading to an accumulation of questionable preconceptions. With the recent resurgence of interest in Marx, Henning's historical recursions make evident where and how academic Anti-Marxism had previously got it wrong. English translation of Philosophie nach Marx. 100 Jahre Marxrezeption und die normative Sozialphilosophie der Gegenwart in der Kritik, Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2005. Editorial Reviews About the Author Christoph Henning, Ph.D. (2003), is a philosopher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has published widely on economic philosophy, Marxism, and critical theory, and recently wrote a book entitled Political Philosophy of Perfectionism.