The aim of the lectures is to discuss the relation between Marx and Heidegegr concerning the meaning of relation as the sense of being and as the sense of being in being.

1-    Introduction: Why and how Marx and Heidegger?

Subject: The question about the relation between theory and practice, philosophy and transformation/revolution, Precedents, a short overview.

Readings (not obligatory)

Address: Heidegger on Marx, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxmzGT1w_kk

Martin Heidegger. Letter on Humanism, transl. Frank A. Capuzzi. https://ia600703.us.archive.org/30/items/HeideggerLetterOnhumanism1949/Heidegger-LetterOnhumanism1949.pdf

Martin Heidegger, “The Age of World Picture,” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated by William Lovitt, New York; Harper and Row, 1977:115-54.

Karl Marx. Thesis on Feuerbach, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

______ The German Ideology, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/abstract.htm

Herbert Marcuse. “On Concrete Philosophy” in Heideggerian Marxism, (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

2 – Alienation and reification of Being

Subject: Marx’s and Heidegger’s theory of alienation, with some footnotes by Luckas.  And Marcuse.

Readings:

Karl Marx. Karl Marx. “Estranged Labour” in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, trans. And ed. Martin Milligan (Mnieola, New York. Dover Publications, 2007), p. 67-83. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

Martin Heidegger. Being and Time, § 25-27 and 35-38

György Luckas. “The phenomenon of reification”, in History and Class Consciousness, Merlin Press, 1967,  https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm

Optional: Lucien Goldmann. Lukacs and Heidegger: Towards a New Philosophy. Trans. William Q. Boelhower. London: Routledge, 2009.

Optional: Gérard Granel. Réinscriptions contemporaneis du Marxisme (derive, abandon, reprise). http://www.gerardgranel.com/txt_pdf/3-cours_marxisme_74_1-prepu.pdf

 3 -  Capital,  technology and the abandon of Being

Subject: The philosophical question(s) from which “we” need to confront (auseinandersetzen) “today” Heidegger and Marx. The philosophical question about the “we”, the “today”, and the “we today” or “today we”. The specter of neither of Marx nor of Heidegger, but of being.

Karl Marx. The Capital, Chapter I, section 4, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto  (Penguin Books, 2002)

On Comodities, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S1

Martin Heidegger. “The question of technology” in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated by William Lovitt, New York; Harper and Row, 1977.

Jacques Derrida. “Apparition of the inapparent” in Specters of Marx. The state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the new international, (New York and London: Routledge, 1994), p. 125- 176

Optional: Jean-Luc Nancy. L'Equivalence des catastrophes : (Après Fukushima) (Paris: Galilée, 2012)

Optional: Michael Eldred. Capital and Technology, Marx and Heidegger, http://www.arte-fact.org/capiteen.html#0.

Subaltern 3( 2009), svensk tidskrift

To Susanna Lindberg susanna.e.lindberg[at]uta.fi

The course is completed by writing a course journal of 3 to 5 pages (2 ECTS). In it, the student is expected to describe and discuss the main points of the course, or alternatively, to make a deeper analysis of one question aroused by the course. You can write the journal in English (it will be read by marcia) or in Finnish (read by Susanna). Send the journal as an e-mail attachment so Susanna.E.Lindberg@uta.fi  at the latest on 14 february 2014.

Reading the texts of the abovementioned reading list is not obligatory but it makes the understanding of the course much easier and deeper.

Each day, the first session is a lecture course and the second one (in the seminar room of philosophy) is a discussion of the day's themes)

Further information is provided by Susanna.E.Lindberg@uta.fi