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Terry Eagleton

False Consciousness

Since my name was invoked in the ongoing debate on Eran’s latest post (“Could there be an intellectual history about ideas”)—as someone who might know something about “false consciousness”—I hereby dedicate a short post to thinking through this term and concept. It seems to me there are at least two ways in which “false consciousness” has been used in the Marxist tradition since Engels first used it in a private letter to Franz Mering online pharmacy nolvadex buy with best prices today in the USA : False consciousness is how the proletariat (or oppressed classes more generally) internalizes its oppression. Read more

Marx in His Time—and in Ours

Three years ago I wrote a post here—“Karl Marx and Intellectual History”—that used reviews of Jonathan Sperber’s 2013 biography Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life to ask questions about the relationship Read more

Karl Marx and Intellectual History

Jonathan Sperber’s new biography, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life, was the subject of two recent high-profile reviews. Both include passages that highlight concerns particular to US intellectual history. The first Read more