From: <mkarim-AT-moses.culver.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 96 15:16:42 CST Subject: Re: Rookie question -- thanks! Justin, Also... do you consider Marc Bloch a Marxist? Manjur On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 20:49:36 -0400 (EDT, Justin Schwartz wrote: > >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 >> >> ____________________________________________________________________ >> Keith Alan Sprouse e-mail: kas3f-AT-virginia.edu >> Dept. of French Language and Literatures office: 804.924.4626 >> University of Virginia home: 804.979.3961 >> Charlottesville, VA 22903 fax: 804.924.7157 >> >> >> >> --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > > > > > --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Manjur Karim --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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