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Author: Jacques Lezra ,
Vittorio Morfino
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823279425
ISBN 10: 0823279421
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 27 March 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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The project of returning Marxist logic to a materialist and pragmatic approach has been underway for some years now. Jacques Lezra, plunging into this logic's deepest reaches, breaking with what he calls a 'necrophilology' prone to reinstalling the fetishes of humanism to the heights from which they've been cast, discovers a 'language of things,' exactly as in Lucretius; but also a language of singularities, as in Spinoza; and of differences, marshaled against the possibility of any system of general equivalences. Is Lezra proposing an ontology? The word is heavy, but recalling Lucretius and Spinoza in this way certainly lightens its weight, and makes ontology powerfully viable for, and by means of, the critique of contemporary capitalism. -- Antonio Negri
The project of returning Marxist logic to a materialist and pragmatic approach has been underway for some years now. Jacques Lezra, plunging into this logic's deepest reaches, breaking with what he calls a 'necrophilology' prone to reinstalling the fetishes of humanism to the heights from which they've been cast, discovers a 'language of things, ' exactly as in Lucretius; but also a language of singularities, as in Spinoza; and of differences, marshaled against the possibility of any system of general equivalences. Is Lezra proposing an ontology? The word is heavy, but recalling Lucretius and Spinoza in this way certainly lightens its weight, and makes ontology powerfully viable for, and by means of, the critique of contemporary capitalism.--Antonio Negri The project of returning 'Marxist logic' to a materialist and pragmatic approach has been underway for some years now. Jacques Lezra, plunging into this logic's deepest reaches, discovers there a 'language of things, ' exactly as in Lucretius; but also a language of singularities, as in Spinoza; and of differences, marshaled against the possibility of any system of general equivalences. What he calls 'necrophilology' intervenes wherever such systems would reinstall the fetishes of humanism to the heights from which they've been cast--as a rupture, a break. Is Lezra proposing an ontology? The word is heavy, but recalling Lucretius and Spinoza in this way certainly lightens its weight, and makes ontology powerfully viable for, and by means of, the critique of contemporary capitalism. --Antonio Negri
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Jacques Lezra is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are República salvaje (2019), On the Nature of Marx’s Things (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), and Contra todos los fueros de la Muerte (2016).
