Marx 3/13 | Marx’s "On the Jewish Question" and Claude Lefort with Jean Louise Cohen (Nov. 14, 2024)

The philosopher Jean Louise Cohen reads and discusses with Bernard E. Harcourt Marx’s 1844 articles "On the Jewish Question" and "Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," in conversation with Claude Lefort's "Human Rights and Politics" (1980) for Marx 3/13 @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/3-13/

Thursday, November 14, 2024 at Columbia University in the City of New York.

For an introduction to the seminar Marx 3/13: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx313

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In February 1844, Marx published two articles in the Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher, which he and Arnold Ruge edited in Paris: “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction” and “On the Jewish Question.” The first article, Jean Hyppolite referred to as “a first communist manifesto.” The second article, famously, called for human, as opposed to merely legal or political emancipation.

Together, the two articles push the reader past the juridical remedies that Marx proposed in his 1842 articles on the thefts of wood and that we discussed at Marx 2/13. There, you will recall, Marx called for a legal framework based on a customary right for the poor. By contrast, in these two 1844 articles, Marx recognizes the thoroughgoing political nature of the struggle and turns instead to the class of workers for the realization of emancipation.

From Marx’s juridical writings, we turn in Marx 3/13 to his more political writings on the state and on the true nature of emancipation. At Marx 3/13, we will read Marx’s 1844 articles with Professor Jean Louise Cohen, the Nell and Herbert Singer Professor of Political Theory and Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University, in conversation with the political philosopher Claude Lefort’s essay “Politics and Human Rights.”

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Readings for Marx 3/13: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/3-1...