Date: Tue, 8 Oct 96 15:13:35 CST
Subject: Re: Rookie question -- thanks!



Justin, 
Just curious... why do you find Lefebvre unimpressive?
Manjur


On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 20:49:36 -0400 (EDT, Justin Schwartz wrote:

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>Since I see you're a fRench lit person I utter a word of warning: French
>Marxism is a depressing business. There's the now unfashionable (highly)
>existential Marxism (Sartre, Merleau Ponty, etc.): it's pretty obscure,
>although M-P is always worth reading; he's the best of them. ALthusser and
>his crowd, now also unfashionable, were very infliential for a while and I
>suppose that at some point, given your interests, you will have to get a
>grip on him, but I for one find him singularly unrewarding. Then therea re
>the old-CPers: Henri Lefevre, Roger Gauraudy, not impressive. The French
>Marxist historians like Marc Bloc, ALnbert Soboul, and Georges LeFebre are
>a much better bunch. I do9n't know what happened to French philosophy.
>Alfter Descartes and Bayle it's pretty much downhill. German and
>Anglo-AMerican Marxism, with the odd Hungarian and Italian thrown in, not
>to mention early Russian Marxism, are where the action's at. Oh! There's
>one guy who writes in French but is Brazilian by birth who is very much
>worth reading: Michael Lowy. Read everything by him you can.
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>--JUstin
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>On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Keith Alan Sprouse wrote:
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>> I'd like to those who took the time to reply to my post for their very
>> helpful suggestions.  And now it's time to start reading...
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>> Keith
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Manjur Karim



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