RemarxNecessity and Liberty in the Communist Utopia: André Gorz's Rereading of Marx

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What relationships can be formed between labor and liberty when labor is no longer necessarily experienced as the social indicator of alienation from liberty in the economy? It was Marx who first painstakingly developed these issues, formulating the theory of two reigns, that of necessity and that of liberty, within the context of the communist Utopia. Nonetheless, his positioning of the problem entailed a whole series of ambiguities. In basing ourselves on André Gorz's analyses, we will demonstrate the dependence of all thought about liberation on a philosophy of liberty that assumes, or fails to assume, a certain irreducible depth of any human collective, an inevitable heteronomy of the human condition.View full textDownload full textKeywordsEmancipation, Communism, Labor, Necessity, HeteronomyRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2011.559026