Praxis in Marx and Marxism

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Nesbitt, Nick - Moreiras, A. - Landa, Ivan
Praxis in Marx and Marxism.
[Prague, 14.12.2022-15.12.2022, (K-WRD 16/12)]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-20319S
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Marx * Marxism * philosophy of praxis * Gramsci * Heidegger * Badiou * Eastern European Marxism
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
https://www.flu.cas.cz/en/events-of-institute-of-philosophy-as-cr/21-konference-a-workshopy/4013-praxis-in-marx-and-marxism

The question of praxis has become a vexed one, and not just in its relationship to theory. Is transforming the world simply a matter of political engagement? Is it a matter of socioeconomic production or a more fundamental engagement with what Marx called the capitalist social form? Or does it call for a reconsideration of human activity as a whole? Following Moishe Postone’s influential argument, the traditional Marxian notion of praxis clearly remained subject to a productivist ontology. In the wake of Postone’s critique, however, subsequent value-form readings of Capital as a monetary labour theory of value have arguably turned away from the problem of praxis to address the exegesis of Marx’s categorial critique of capitalism. Can the notion of praxis be revised in the context of planetary climate change and the persistence of late capitalism? Can Marx’s thought, and a fortiori traditional Marxism, withstand a challenge to a deeply embedded notion of productionist praxis? Is there an alternative that might still remain faithful to the Marxian oeuvre, or to its spirit?
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