Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy

Patrick Murray is John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.  He is author of Marx’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge and The Mismeasure of Wealth and editor of Reflections on Commercial Life.  His research interests center on capitalism and modern philosophy. Jeanne Schuler is Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.  She has published in the history of philosophy and critical theory, including articles on Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Arendt, Iris Murdoch, and Habermas.  She is working on a series of articles on Hegel and modern philosophy.

• 1. Introduction: Philosophy and Social Theory beyond the “Bourgeois Horizon”.- 2. Recognizing Capital: Some Barriers to Public Discourse about Capital.- 3. The Legend of Hegel’s Labor Theory of Reason.- 4. Marx, Subjectivism, and Modern Moral Philosophy.- 5. Karl Marx and the Critique of Bourgeois Philosophy.- 6. Reclaiming the Concepts of Value and Capital.- 7. Social Form and the “Purely Social”: On the Kind of Sociality Involved in Value.- 8. The Commodity Spectrum.- 9. A Brilliant Failure: Hegel and Marx Assess the Enlightenment.- 10. From Hegel on Enlightenment Terror to Marx on Capital.- 11. The Poetics of Nihilism: Representing Capital’s Indifference in Dickens’ Hard Times.- 12. Rebel without a Cause: Stanley Kubrick and the Banality of the Good.- 13. Disappearing Act: The Trick Philosophy of Woody Allen.