Praxis in Marx and Marxism

Organized by the Princeton University, Texas A & M University, Institute of Philosophy (Czech Academy of Sciences)

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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 socio-economic 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?

The conference will be held at Academic Conference Centre (Akademické konferenční centrum) in central Prague (http://www.akc-avcr.cz/).

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