Grounding Critique

Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations

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Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations argues that marxism must have a robust understanding of embodied social relations, such as race, gender, and sexuality, in order to produce the knowledge necessary for transformative social change. Tanyildiz subjects two important strands of marxist social theory —marxist-feminism and social reproduction theory— to a methodological examination and demonstrates their shortcomings. Focusing on these strands’ critiques of intersectionality as a moment of crystallization in concept formation, Grounding Critique explores alternative ways of using Marx’s method to understand contemporary human praxis.
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Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brock University, Canada. As a theoretical methodologist of social sciences and humanities, his research focuses on concept formation in social and spatial theories of marxism, racial capitalism, and social reproduction.
Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Living Individual and the Marionette
 i The Predicament of the Marxist Sociologist

 ii A Marxism Made to the Measure of Life

 iii The Principle of Sociability for Social Relations

 iv The Specificity of Social Relations in Marx

 v Embodied Social Relations under Capitalism

 vi Embodied Social Relations in Contemporary Marxist Social Thought

 vii A Brief Note on Intersectionality

 viii A Marxist-Feminist Symposium on Intersectionality

 ix Embodied Social Relations in Social Reproduction Theory

 x A Conceptual Ground Clearing to Return to Marx


part i
Embodied Social Relations in Contemporary Marxist-Feminism
 i Introduction

 ii Intersectionality

 iii Some Methodological Propositions for a Marxist Engagement with Intersectionality

 iv The Generalization of Embodied Social Relations as the Categories of Subjective Human Life

 v The Framing of the Marxist-Feminist Engagement with Intersectionality

 vi The Analytic Primacy of Class and the Transformative Pedagogies

 vii The Ideological Techniques of Bourgeois Management

 viii The Concept of the Mode of Production

 ix The Methodological Tension between the Phenomenology and Ontology of the Social

 x The Need for the Recovery of the Concept of Experience in its Lived Sense

 xi Embodied Social Relations and the Levels of Analysis in Social Sciences

 xii Class Burdened with the Difficult Conceptual Task of Reconciling History with the Social

 xiii Mistaking Critical Marxist Epistemologies for a Sociology of Knowledge

 xiv A Quasi-transcendental Framework of Explanation Premised upon a First Principle

 xv Marxism and the Non-identity of the Law and Life in Contemporary Capitalist Societies

 xvi Supra-racial Epistemology of an Aleatory and Subjectless Conception of History

 xvii Marxist-Feminist Aporetic of Description versus Explanation

 xviii 10 + 1 Theses on Feuerbach

 xix The Non-coincidence of Experience and Explanation

 xx Marxist-Feminist Inscription of the Binary of the Idiographic versus the Nomothetic

 xxi Why ‘Race’ Cannot Be Accommodated within a Marxist-Feminist Analysis as an Embodied Social Relation?

 xxii Conclusion


part ii
Embodied Social Relations in Social Reproduction Theory
 i Introduction

 ii What Is the Relationship between Social Reproduction Theory and Intersectionality?

 iii Social Reproduction Theory’s Ambiguous and Inadequately Self-reflexive Relationship to Intersectionality

 iv Social Reproduction Theory as a Marxist-Feminist Alternative to Intersectionality

 v Social Reproduction Theory’s ‘Methodology’ and its Articulation and Selection of Social Problems

 vi ‘Race,’ Racialization, and Experience in Social Reproduction Feminism

 vii Vacillating between Supplementing and Supplanting Intersectionality

 viii Inauguration of Socialist-Feminist Political Economy as a Unitary Social Theory

 ix One-Sidedness of Experience in Social Reproduction Theory

 x The Values, Facts, and Factuality of Oppression in the Quasi-transcendental Structure of Social Reproduction Theory

 xi Social Reproduction Theory as Sublated Intersectionality

 xii Metaphorizing Concepts, Criticizing Metaphors

 xiii (Hegelian-Marxist) Totality in Social Reproduction Theory?

 xiv Severing Methodology from the Rest of the Theoretical Framework in Social Reproduction Theory

 xv Co-constitutivity in Social Reproduction Theory

 xvi ‘Additive Method,’ Anti-additivity, and Social Reproduction Theory

 xvii Liberalism, Ontological Atomism, Social Newtonianism, and Intersectionality According to Social Reproduction Theory

 xviii An Alternative Outlook on the Relationship between Intersectionality and the Critical Import of Newton’s System into Liberal Bourgeois Social Thought

 xix The Pitfalls of the ‘Methodology’ of Analogical Argumentations and Battling Metaphors

 xx Towards a Marxist Social Theory of Embodied Social Relations


Coda: A Long Day’s Evening
 i A Critique of Concept Formation

 ii Through Intersectionality to Concept Formation in Contemporary Marxist Social Thought

 iii Dissolving Intersecting Lines in Favour of Parallel Planes Bereft of Social Existence and Life

 iv Conceptual Conditions of Dialectically Overcoming Intersectionality

 v The Finality of Conceptual Judgement?

 vi Tarrying with Marxist-Feminism and Social Reproduction Theory

 vii Quo Vadis Social Reproduction?

 viii Social Reproduction Qua Method

 ix Returning to Marx to Study Embodied Social Relations


Afterword

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