Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 20:49:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Rookie question -- thanks!



Since I see you're a fRench lit person I utter a word of warning: French
Marxism is a depressing business. There's the now unfashionable (highly)
existential Marxism (Sartre, Merleau Ponty, etc.): it's pretty obscure,
although M-P is always worth reading; he's the best of them. ALthusser and
his crowd, now also unfashionable, were very infliential for a while and I
suppose that at some point, given your interests, you will have to get a
grip on him, but I for one find him singularly unrewarding. Then therea re
the old-CPers: Henri Lefevre, Roger Gauraudy, not impressive. The French
Marxist historians like Marc Bloc, ALnbert Soboul, and Georges LeFebre are
a much better bunch. I do9n't know what happened to French philosophy.
Alfter Descartes and Bayle it's pretty much downhill. German and
Anglo-AMerican Marxism, with the odd Hungarian and Italian thrown in, not
to mention early Russian Marxism, are where the action's at. Oh! There's
one guy who writes in French but is Brazilian by birth who is very much
worth reading: Michael Lowy. Read everything by him you can.

--JUstin

On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Keith Alan Sprouse wrote:

> I'd like to those who took the time to reply to my post for their very
> helpful suggestions.  And now it's time to start reading...
> 
> 
> Keith
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