The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence

"The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence employs a well-known body of work, Marx's, to explain the inevitable limits of scholarship, in hopes to encourage academic boldness, and diversity, especially within American jurisprudence. While scholarly meaning-making has been addressed in specific academic areas, mostly linguistics and philosophy, it has never been addressed in a triangular relationship between the text (T1) and its instigator (S1), as well as its subsequent interpellator (S2). Furthermore, while addressed as a result of difference, it has never been addressed for today's liberal theory, which includes liberal jurisprudence, through the mirror of Marxist difference. Scholarship is the unique product of the instigator's private and public subjectivity, as all theory is aimed to be communicated and used by the scholarly community and beyond. Understanding its public life, textual instigators (S1) aim to control its meaning employing various research methods to observe reality and then to convey their narrative, or 'philosophy'. But meaning is not fixed; it is negotiated by S1 and those theories interpellate (S2), according to their own private and public subjectivity, which covers their ideology. Negotiated meaning is always a surprise to both S1 and S2, surprise which is both ironic and ideological. The book has ten chapters, an index and a list of references"-- Provided by publisher The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Marx, Irony and Ideology - Negotiating Meaning 2 Meaning as a Result of Textual Instigation and Interpellation 1 Contextualizing Marx: Differentiating to Embrace or to Reject? 1 Marx and Dewey 2 Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Marx's Works 3 The Cultural Lifespan of Scholarship 4 Marxian Ideology as Soviet, ergo, Undesired, Subjectivity 5 Marx's Un-American Attitude toward Religion 6 Marx's Unshaken Belief in Human Progress 2 Marxian or Marxism: Labels Differentiating Content or Fabricating Difference? 3 Textual Differences and Marx's Interdisciplinary Dialectics 1 Dialectics and Ideology Thinking, Researching and Incorporating Observations 2 Marxian Interdisciplinary Dialectics 3 Dialectics and Post-marxian Scholarship 4 Private Subjectivity - Alienation and Theory Production 1 Alienation as Creative Reification 2 Alienation and Ideological Resistance to Power Structures 3 Alienation and Scholastic Needs 5 Ideology as Public (Political) Subjectivity 1 Ideology through the Ages 2 The Case against (Academic) Ideological Purges 3 Mass Media - Technology Actuating Ideology 4 Ideological Meaning-Making 6 The Irony of Scholarship Production 1 Encoded Irony in T1 2 Dormant Irony as T1's Textual Omissions 3 Textual Irony and Rorty's Intellectual Ironist 7 Ideological Irony - S2's Ideology Actuating T1's Irony 1 Irony and Direct Scholastic Criticism 2 Scholarship as (Ironic) Polite Criticism 8 The Bearable Lightness of Jurisprudential Irony 1 Jurisprudential Irony as an Inescapable Trade-Off between Scholastic Ambition and Reality 2 Jurisprudential Irony and the Socratic Method of Teaching Law 3 Jurisprudential Irony - Byproduct of Legal Hegemony 4 Encoded Jurisprudential Irony 5 Jurisprudential Irony and the Supreme Court The Case of Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Neil Gorsuch 9 Philosophical Camaraderie, Ideological Difference, and Irony 1 Plato's Concepts of Just and Justice 2 Aristotle's Dialectical Universals 3 Thomas Hobbes and John Locke's Ideological Differences Lead to Diverse Epistemological Conclusions 4 The Intersection between the Abstract and Concrete Facets of the Law according to Montesquieu, Kant and Rousseau 5 Jeremy Bentham's Common Sense and Grotius' Technocratic Approach to Law 6 American Jurisprudence and Marx Strange Bedfellows . Not 10 Irony, Jurisprudential Meaning-Making, and Ideological Camaraderie 1 Classical Liberalism and Marx 2 Law as Science or the Rejection of Ideology 3 Formalism and Realism Two Sides of the Same Coin 4 The Limits of Rawls and Dworkin Justice and Historical Contingency 5 Critical Legal Studies and Marx 6 Feminism, Queer Theory and Marx 7 Intersectionality - Pragmatic Bridge between Theory and Reality Summary and Conclusion Ideological Irony and Liberal Scholarship References Index The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence' employs a well-known body of work, Marx's, to explain the inevitable limits of scholarship, in hopes to encourage academic boldness, and diversity, especially within American jurisprudence.0While scholarly meaning-making has been addressed in specific academic areas, mostly linguistics and philosophy, it has never been addressed in a triangular relationship between the text (T1) and its instigator (S1), as well as its subsequent interpellator (S2). Furthermore, while addressed as a result of difference, it has never been addressed for today's liberal theory, which includes liberal jurisprudence, through the mirror of Marxist difference. 0Scholarship is the unique product of the instigator's private and public subjectivity, as all theory is aimed to be communicated and used by the scholarly community and beyond. Understanding its public life, textual instigators (S1) aim to control its meaning employing various research methods to observe reality and then to convey their narrative, or "philosophy". But meaning is not fixed; it is negotiated by S1 and those theories interpellate (S2), according to their own private and public subjectivity, which covers their ideology. Negotiated meaning is always a surprise to both S1 and S2, surprise which is both ironic and ideological. The book has ten chapters, an index and a list of references Introduction -- Contextualizing Marx : Differentiating to Embrace or to Reject? -- Marxian or Marxism : Labels Differentiating Content or Fabricating Difference? -- Textual Differences and Marx's Interdisciplinary Dialectics -- Private Subjectivity, Alienation and Theory Production -- Ideology as Public (Political) Subjectivity -- The Irony of Scholarship Production -- Ideological Irony : S2 Actuating T1's Meaning -- The Bearable Lightness of Jurisprudential Irony -- Ironical Ideology, Difference of Meaning and Philosophical Camaraderie -- Irony, Jurisprudential Meaning-Making and Ideological Camaraderie -- Summary and Conclusion