The Crisis of Marxism

A Historical-Intellectual Problem

Elías J. Palti

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Routledge
09 June 2025

Historiography; Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory; Marxism & Communism

Series: Marx and Marxisms

In this book, Elías J. Palti analyzes the writings of key thinkers who have theorized the present situation of Marxism: Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, Alain Badiou, and Jacques Derrida. His aim is to interrogate what appears to be the final crisis of Marxist political tradition from a historical-intellectual point of view, placing it within a broader framework, which is the present crisis of politics, at large. Yet, it also reveals why we cannot, even then, avoid confronting it, stubbornly trying to think of what seems to be unthinkable today, namely, the idea of an emancipatory horizon.

Unlike traditional works of political philosophy, The Crisis of Marxism: A Historical-Intellectual Problem does not intend to provide political or philosophical answers to today’s dislocation of politics. Instead, it aspires to clarify the nature of the questions that such a situation raises and demonstrates why the current crisis of Marxism contains some fundamental clues for it.

By: Elías J. Palti
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9781032958088
ISBN 10: 1032958081
Series: Marx and Marxisms
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 09 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Preface. Prologue. Introduction. PART I: Marxism’s Truth and Knowledge in the “Short Twentieth Century” 1. Knowledge Without Truth 2. Trotskyism as the Implicit Truth of Marxism PART II: Marxism in the Post-Tragic Scene 3. The Truth as a Postulate 4. The Truth as Promise 5. The Truth as a Bet. Epilogue.

Elías J. Palti obtained his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a consulting professor at the University of Buenos Aires and formerly was the director of the Center for Intellectual History at the National University of Quilmes and a principal researcher at Argentina's National Research Council (CONICET). Palti has published widely in the field of intellectual history across six different languages. His more recent publications include An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2017), Misplaced Ideas: Political-Intellectual History in Latin America (2024), and Political-Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change (2024).