︎ Marx vs. Hegel

May 29, 2021

This seminar explores how Marx identifies one structural constant in philosophy, which is the organisational principle of philosophical sufficiency—the subjective perspective. It morphs the outside reality to mirror human subjectivity. This is also the organising principle of another tautological universe, that of capitalism—it is centered on the human and of the form of the “Universal Egoist” (Marx). The science of the species being of humanity postulates all reality, including the subjective, as an object of investigation and, therefore, the thought as objective. This type of objectivity is placed beyond the subject-object dialectics. Rather it assumes the third person’s perspective and from such a posture of thought produces its “philo-fiction” (Laruelle). In this way, Marx circumvents the fallacy of Kant’s noumenon.

(Katerina Kolozova)