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A Poet of the “Part With No Part”
Vallejo’s poetry always felt committed to the option of politicizing human pain, that is, naming its causes and representing the effects that pain...
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Vallejo and Political Art Beyond Death (Conclusions)
The conclusions suggest that Vallejo’s poetry sought to transcend a purely aesthetic function. Vallejo did not shy away from the pedagogical...
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A Poet Who Announces the Event
The chapter argues that Vallejo is a poet of the event, that is, a poet who strives to give an account of an experience of truth that has interrupted...
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Bentham via Dumont on the Balance of Trade
In this chapter, Michael Quinn argues that although Bentham’s only works on international trade were discussions on “the balance of trade” and...
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Jeremy Bentham’s Politics of Global Commerce as a Limit-Case
In this chapter, Benjamin Bourcier argues that Bentham’s politics of global commerce evolved from enlightenment cosmopolitanism aspirations to...
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Introduction
The contributions made by British intellectuals to modern internationalInternational political thought have been at the centre of several debates in...
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Colonization, Commerce and Global History: Adam Smith and Raynal’s Histoire des Deux Indes
In this chapter, Benoît Walraevens investigates the possible “dialogue” between two eighteenth-century masterpieces on international politics and...
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Manifestations of Barbarism
We saw in the previous section that the “civilising” phase of capitalism ended in the late 1960s. Since then, capital has systematically denied...
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The Foundations of Self-Managed Socialism: The Contribution of István Mészáros
Workers began to feel the need for self-management the first day that they were placed in a factory against their will. In the nineteenth century,...
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A Critical Civil Society: An Ethical Framework to Control the Power of Algorithms
Given that any democratic proposal must account for the institutional skeleton that sustains it, the aim of this article is to show that this...
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The Irish Mistake: Marx, Ireland, and Non-European Societies
Matthieu de Nanteuil examines Marx’s relationship with Ireland. He shows that the Irish case enabled Marx to develop his dual critique of capitalism...
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Mariátegui and the Decolonization of Marxism: A Latin-American Perspective
Underlining the constant reconfiguration of the senses of and connections between Marx and Europe, in particular as incarnations of the idea of...
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A Marxian Analysis of the European Construction II: Contradictions
Analysing the post-World War foundations of the European Union and following in detail the history of this construction until today, Jean-Christophe...
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Subject and Concept of Legitimacy
This chapter develops the concept of legitimacy as the right to function. According to conventional concepts of state legitimacy, to regard an...
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Introduction
The theme of the book is the genesis and transformation of social consciousness. It will focus on the general puzzle of how the formation of human...
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Beyond Marx, Beyond Europe
Raul Fornet-Betancourt questions a series of borders related to the idea of going beyond both Marx and Europe: beyond European capitalism and its...
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Racializing the Analysis of Capitalism: Towards a Decolonial Political Ecology – Mining Neoliberalism and Environmental Degradation
Studying the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo using a grounded approach, Anuarite Bashizi, Cécile Giraud and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka...
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Normativity as Intersubjective Control
Searle’s theory of social construction eventually indicates that normativity must be sustained through the intentional exercise of power between...
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Communication and Social Evolution
The conclusion of the former part is that collective intentionality and the intersubjective perspective are insufficient to ensure the norms that can...
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Old Wine in New Wineskins: William Ockham and the Common Good in Context
The present chapter investigates the use of the expression bonum commune in two political works by William of Ockham: the third part of the Dialogus...