The Prison House of Alienation

ISBN-13: 9781032084176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Murzban Jal

Opis

This book is an exploration of the humanist theme of alienation that Marx theorized in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. It relates this theme of alienation with the themes of haunting in the Manifesto of the Communist Party and accumulation of capital that he outlined in his magnum opus Capital.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments  Introduction: Ideology or ‘Terror as Freedom’?  1. Umweg, or The Detour: On Marx’s Theory On Radical Time  2. Interpretation As Phantasmagoria: Variations On a Theme On Marx’s Theses On Feuerbach  3. In Defence of Marxism: A Reply to a Neo-Hindu’s Reading of The Seductions of Karl Marx  4. Reflections on Violence  5. Strangers in the Dark: Neo-liberalism and Maoism in India  6. Can Ideology Ever Be Revolutionary?

O autorze

Murzban Jal is Professor and Director at the Centre for Educational Studies, Indian Institute of Education, Pune, India. He was Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, and an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Senior Fellow where he worked on the ethnography of the makings of a minority community in India. He is author of The Seductions of Karl Marx (2010), Zoroastrianism: from Antiquity to the Modern Period, ed. (2012), The New Militants (2014), Why We Are Not Hindus (2015), What Ails Muslims, ed. with Zaheer Ali (2016), Challenges for the Indian Left, ed. (2017), In the Name of Marx (2018), Zarathushtra and the Inmates of Paradise (2018) and Yusuf and Zuleika: The Return of the Despot (2019). He has also published more than hundred papers in national and international journals.