Foucault’s Question Anthropologique, a course on anthropology that he gave at Lille in 1954-5, contains a detailed reading of Marx.  Foucault’s unpublished papers contain detailed notes on Marx from roughly the same period, as Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod indicates.  The notes help with two textual points. First, Foucault was reading the edition of Marx’s Œuvres philosophiques translated…

Rebecca Crootof has a current paper on what she calls the “kill box” problem for autonomous weapon systems.  It shows just how difficult it is to translate traditional just war values and laws into an AI context.  Basically, one of the most important rules for warfare is that you try to distinguish enemy combatants from…

So it’s time to take stock and wind-up this very long thread (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine) on Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence and readings of Marx around it (I know the title promises Foucault. That turns out to be a minor part of how this developed, but I’ll say a little…

I’m most of the way through a long series (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight) on Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence and his reading of Marx. Last time, I started on his reading of Marx in Logic and Existence.  As I noted, although the book involves a reorientation away from the Phenomenology and to…

I’ve been pursuing a long thread (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven) on the importance of Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence, and his reading of Marx.  Doing so has involved excavating a lot of historical context, as reading Marx in particular was indissociable from both the reception of his recently published early writings and debates…

I’ve been working out a reading of the Hegel-Marx relation via Hyppolite in the early 1950s.  In previous installments (one, two, three, four, five, six), I’ve tried to develop a lot of the background for why the appearance of Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence in 1953 was so important in that context.  Last time, I made…

I’ve been working out a reading of the Hegel-Marx relation via Hyppolite in the early 1950s.  In previous installments (one, two, three, four, five), I’ve tried to develop a lot of the context for why the appearance of Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence in 1953 was so important in that context.  Here, I’ll start looking at…

I’ve been working out some of the context for Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence and why it might matter for a reading of Marx (one, two, three, four).  Last time, I started a look at Hyppolite’s late 1940s reading of Marx; today I want to finish that.  Last time, I looked at (a) The line Althusser…

I’ve been working out some of the context for Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence and why it might matter for a reading of Marx (one, two, three).  Last time, I looked at Althusser’s 1950 (anonymously published) critique of the use of Hegel in understanding Marx, an essay that seems to be particularly aggrieved by Hyppolite’s work…

I’m working out a thread (part 1, part 2) suggesting that that Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence (1953), which reads Hegel through the Logic and not the Phenomenology, and thereby pushes a non-humanist reading of Hegel, mattered for the French reading of Marx, which hinged on whether Marx inherited humanism or anthropology from Hegel.  I then…