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Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría
In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría have made to universal thought. While in recent years Latin America has distanced itself politically and economically from global power centers, in the realm of philosophy it has remained under the dominance of conventional western thinking.

Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the lives and philosophies of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, former senior faculty members at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Through its attempt to popularize the major works of these two great Mexican philosophers, Critical Marxism in Mexico is an invaluable resource for all those trying to place Critical Theory at the center of international philosophical discussions
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Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría
In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría have made to universal thought. While in recent years Latin America has distanced itself politically and economically from global power centers, in the realm of philosophy it has remained under the dominance of conventional western thinking.

Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the lives and philosophies of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, former senior faculty members at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Through its attempt to popularize the major works of these two great Mexican philosophers, Critical Marxism in Mexico is an invaluable resource for all those trying to place Critical Theory at the center of international philosophical discussions
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Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría

Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría

by Stefan Gandler
Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría

Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría

by Stefan Gandler

Overview

In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría have made to universal thought. While in recent years Latin America has distanced itself politically and economically from global power centers, in the realm of philosophy it has remained under the dominance of conventional western thinking.

Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the lives and philosophies of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, former senior faculty members at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Through its attempt to popularize the major works of these two great Mexican philosophers, Critical Marxism in Mexico is an invaluable resource for all those trying to place Critical Theory at the center of international philosophical discussions

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608466337
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 06/14/2016
Series: Historical Materialism
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 467
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Stefan Gandler (Munich, 1964) studied Philosophy, Political Sciences and Latin-American Studies at Goethe UniversityFrankfurt, with Alfred Schmidt as Ph.D. adviser. Lives in Mexico City since 1993, teaching Philosophy and Social Theory at: UNAM, UC Santa Cruz and Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.

Table of Contents

Prologue to Critical Marxism in Mexico Michael Löwy xiii

Preface to the English-Language Edition xv

Preface to the Original Edition in German xvii

Preface to the Spanish-Language Edition xix

Introduction: From Eurocentric to Peripheral Marxism 1

Part 1 Historical and Theoretical Context

1 The Life and Work of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez 15

Beginning of the Biography 16

The Spanish Civil War 19

The First Period in Mexico, Exile 26

The 'New Theoretical and Practical Posture' 34

2 The Life and Work of Bolivar Echeverría 42

The Period in West Germany and West Berlin 50

From the Divided City to the Mexican Capital 64

Collaboration on the Journal Cuadernos Politicos 67

Back to Philosophy 77

3 The 'State of Art' 84

a On Social Philosophy in Latin America 84

b On Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría 85

Part 2 Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Praxis and Knowledge

4 The Concept of Praxis 93

a The Term 'Praxis' in Various European Languages 93

b The Terms 'Praxis' and 'Practica' and the Problem of Their Translation 96

c General Introduction to the Concept 98

5 Everyday Consciousness of Praxis 101

a The Critique of the Everyday Consciousness of Praxis, or, What Is a Theoretical Knowledge of Praxis Good For? 101

b Revolutionary Praxis and Everyday Consciousness 108

Practical Politicism and Practical Apoliticism 112

c Artistic Praxis and Everyday Consciousness 113

d Concluding the Critique of Everyday Consciousness 113

6 The Relationship between Philosophy and Praxis in History 116

a Antiquity 117

b The Philosophy of Praxis 125

7 The Theses on Feuerbach 127

a The Position of the Theses on Feuerbach in Marx's Work 127

b Interpretation of tine Theses on Feuerbach 132

Praxis as the Basis for Knowledge (Thesis I) 134

Praxis as a Criterion of Truth (Thesis II) 138

Revolutionary Praxis as the Unity of the Transformation in Human Beings and in Circumstances (Thesis III) 143

From the Interpretation of the World to its Transformation (Thesis XI) 147

Epilogue to the Theses on Feuerbach 152

8 Critique of Some Marxist Conceptions of Knowledge 153

a Critique of Certain Conceptions of Marxism in General 154

b Critique of Certain Marxist Conceptions of Knowledge 156

Knowledge as the Direct Result of World-Transformative Praxis 156

Knowledge as Something Achieved Exclusively in Theory 160

9 Once Again on the Problem of Knowledge an d Praxis 167

a Materialism and Idealism 168

b Political and Productive Praxis 176

10 The Philosophy of Praxis: Two Versions 183

Part 3 Bolívar Echeverría: Use-Value and Ethos

11 Praxis and Use-Value 195

a Theory of Use-Value and Critique of the Abstract Concept of Praxis 195

b Differences vis-à-vis the Concept of Praxis in Sánchez Vàzquez 199

c Historical Limitations of the Marxian Concept of Use-Value 206

d The Aristotelian Concept of Use-Value as Interpreted by Marx 210

e Marx as the Founder of the Critical Concept of Use-Value 215

f The Marxian Concept of Natural Form and the Theory of Ethos 223

g The Critique of Political Economy as a Critique of Modernity 226

12 Concretisation of the Concept of Praxis 229

a Reproduction and Communication 229

b Use-Value and Signs 238

c Marx's Theory of Tools 242

d Concept of Concrete Universalism 249

13 Modernity and Capitalism 257

a The Critique of Actually-Existing Modernity and the Critique of Actually-Existing Postmodern Thought 257

b The Term 'Actually-Existing Modernity' 259

c Actually-Existing Modernities as Basis for a Non-Capitalist Modernity 264

14 The Concept of Historical Ethos 268

a On the Term Ethos 269

Translation Problems 270

b Determination of the Concept of 'Historical Ethos' 271

c Concept of Modernity 278

d The Terms 'Realist', 'Romantic', 'Classic', and 'Baroque Ethos' 280

e The Concept of the Four Ethe of Capitalist Modernity as a Contribution to a Materialist History of Culture 281

f The Theoretical Positioning and Explosive Force of the Concept of Ethos 282

Form of Civilisation Versus Mode of Production (for Martin Heidegger) 286

The Finite of the Dominant Modernity and of All Capitalist Modernities (for Karl Marx) 286

Christianity and Capitalism (for Max Weber) 288

Excursus: Marx on 'Political Economy and Christianity' 290

Puritanism and Realism 293

15 The Four Ethe of Capitalist Modernity 295

a The Realist Ethos 295

b The Romantic Ethos 297

c The Classic Ethos 299

d The Baroque Ethos 300

e Non-existence of Historical Ethe in Pure Form 306

f Textual Variations of the Concept of Ethos 307

16 Ethos and Ideology 311

a Limitations of the Concept of Ethos 311

b Contribution to the Reconstruction of the Concept of Ideology in the Critique of Political Economy 313

1859 Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 313

The Text: 'The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret' 315

The Fetishism of the Commodity 316

The Historical Dimension of the Fetishism of the Commodity, or Knowledge as a Political-practical Process 320

On the Relation Between 'Necessity' and 'Interest' in the Formation or Perpetuation of Ideologies 324

Capital as a Critique of Fetishisms 325

c The Concept of Ethos as a Toned Down Critique of Ideology 328

d An Example of the Limitations of the Concept of Ethos 331

17 Utopia: A Non-Capitalist Society of Commodity Producers 335

Part 4 On the Relationship between Praxis and Ethos

18 Affirmation or Critique of Praxis? 343

19 The Conceptual Determination of Culture and Nature 350

20 The Philosophical Critique of Eurocentrism 355

a On the Problem of Focusing on European Authors 355

b Critical Concept of Praxis Versus Abstract Universalism, Namely Eurocentrism 357

Bibliographical Appendix 361

A Bibliography of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez 363

B Bibliography of Bolivar Echeverría 409

C Selected Bibliography on Marxist Philosophy in Latin America 427

D Sources for the Bibliography 432

References 435

Index of Titles 447

Index of Concepts 451

Index of Names 462

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