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Menozzi, F (2019) Inheriting Marx: Daniel Bensaïd, Ernst Bloch and the Discordance of Time. Historical Materialism, 28 (1). pp. 147-182. ISSN 1465-4466
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Abstract
This essay traces a Marxist notion of cultural heritage drawing on the work of twentieth-century thinkers Daniel Bensaïd and Ernst Bloch. Both authors, indeed, address the act of inheriting as a way of rethinking Marxism beyond determinist and teleological concepts of history. In particular, Bensaïd’s 1995 Marx for Our Times and a 1972 essay on cultural heritage by Ernst Bloch reimagine the handing-on of cultural inheritance as the political reactivation of untimely and non-synchronous survivals of past social formations. For this reason, the heritage of Marx conveyed by these authors does not result in a nostalgic preservation of the past but in reviving unrealised
possibilities of social transformation. In a comparative reading of Bensaïd and Bloch, the act of ‘inheriting Marx’ analysed in this essay hence formulates a de-commodifying conception of cultural heritage set against the violence of capital.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 16 Studies in Human Society, 14 Economics, 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Humanities & Social Science |
| Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2019 14:01 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jan 2022 15:45 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1163/1569206X-00001803 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11793 |
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