After Marx, the Deluge

Blumenfeld, Jacob

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“…He stresses the notion of resonance to question e.g., current standards of productivity (constant pressure, lack of self-efficacy) which are – considering the capitalist circumstances and a lack of basic income schemes – leading to increasing experiences of alienation ( Lijster and Celikates 2019 , 76). His critique is nevertheless understood to be an ethical – or even moralizing ( Ståhl 2020 ) – critique of capitalism “and so, without an anchor in the present of class struggles, Rosa’s analysis accelerates aimlessly” ( Blumenfeld 2018 , 210). It is likewise questionable, if a resonant being in the world might not be enough to cope with the substantial and pervasive power of acceleration and alienation ( Lijster and Celikates 2019 ).…”

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Resonant Retiring? Experiences of Resonance in the Transition to Retirement

2021

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In the process of life course transitions, relations between the self and the world transform, which can according to Hartmut Rosa be framed as resonance. This article focuses on the retirement transition and thus on the exit from gainful employment as one of the central spheres of our world relationship in late modernity. It raises the following questions: How do experiences of resonance change in the course of the retirement transition? Does the loss of gainful employment lead to disruptions or even the absence of resonance in terms of alienation? And which role do dimensions of social inequality, such as gender, income, education or mental health status play for resonance transformations in the transition to retirement? In terms of a reflexive mixed-methods design, this article combines quantitative panel data from the German Ageing Survey (2008–17) with a qualitative longitudinal study from the project “Doing Retiring” (2017–21). Our results show that the transition from work to retirement entails a specific “resonance choreography” that comprises a phase of disaffection (lack of resonance) at the end of one’s working life followed by a liminal phase in which people search for intensified experiences of resonance. We outline practices in which transitioning subjects seek out resonance, and the experiences they make within this process according to their social positions. We thereby find that the desire for resonance tends to be beyond intentional resonance management which manifests in products and services like coaching or wellness. In our conclusions, we discuss how resonance theory and retirement research/life course research can be fruitfully combined, but also highlight the methodological challenges the operationalization of resonance entails.

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Resonant Retiring? Experiences of Resonance in the Transition to Retirement

2021

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“…Pinkard argues there that Marx’s philosophy of action and his naturalism are flawed, and that his thought is problematically perfectionist. The volume was reviewed in English by Blumenfeld (2018). Zambrana (2018), on the other hand, offers a more charitable reading of Marx from a neo-Hegelian background, showing the importance of Hegel’s account of modality for Marx’s work.…”

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Capitalism as a space of reasons: Analytic, neo-Hegelian Marxism?

Evans

2020

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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I suggest that we can read Marx in the light of recent analytic, neo-Hegelian thought. I summarize the Pittsburgh School philosophers’ claims about the myth of the given, the claim that human experience is conceptual all the way out, and that we live in a space of reasons. I show how Hegel has been read in those terms, and then apply that reading of Hegel to Marx’s argument that capital is akin to what Hegel called Geist, or spirit. We can understand capitalism as a space of reasons that is contradictory: while the space of reasons is supposed to make human freedom possible, our space of reasons makes freedom impossible. Reading Marx in this way is helpful, because it avoids the flaws of analytical Marxism, existentialism and structuralism. However, it raises a large problem of its own: Can the theory of the space of reasons be applied to a society that is not free of alienation? I argue that it can, but only in ways that would not satisfy the analytic neo-Hegelians themselves.

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After Marx, the Deluge

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Resonant Retiring? Experiences of Resonance in the Transition to Retirement

Resonant Retiring? Experiences of Resonance in the Transition to Retirement

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