Rethinking Heideggerian Marxism

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Recent debates in philosophy and critical theory have focused on a renewed concern with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thus, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and Fredric Jameson have all debated the nature of Heidegger's legacy, albeit with differing assessments of his continuing relevance for an emancipatory critical discourse. This essay begins by exploring the thesis that there are at least two possible appropriations of Heidegger's work. One is derived from the existentialist phenomenology of the early Heidegger and is exemplified by the recently published collection of Herbert Marcuse's essays entitled Heideggerian Marxism; the other foregrounds a “posthumanist” Heidegger and culminates in the “aleatory materialism” of the later, “post-Marxist” Louis Althusser. After examining the differentiated nature of Heidegger's philosophical legacy for Marxism, the essay focuses on the more “local” level of aesthetic theory in his essay “The Origin of the Work of Art,” which provides the basis for a “re-ontologization” of aesthetics, emphasizing the role of art as a “dynamic of human activity.”View full textDownload full textKeywords Sein , Historical Dasein , Gelassenheit , Aleatory Materialism, Re-OntologizationRelated 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/10.1080/08935696.2010.510306