Science and Method
Reading Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsWe continue to study selected passages from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. We delve into key themes and concepts related to civil society and state: politics and the arts, racism, class and gender, religion, linguistics, and other methods of analysis, critical theory, mass media, and cinema, hegemony, and subaltern studies, as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative.
Classical Political Economy and Marx’s Critique: Theories of Surplus-Value
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsFollowing up on the MEP's long-running and recently completed study group on Marx's Grundrisse, we will closely read and discuss extensive selections from Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (sometimes referred to as Volume 4 of Capital), supplemented by chapters from I.I. Rubin's History of Economic Thought.
Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP's recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel's magnum opus, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx's Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel's works.
Classical Political Economy and Marx’s Critique: Theories of Surplus-Value
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsFollowing up on the MEP's long-running and recently completed study group on Marx's Grundrisse, we will closely read and discuss extensive selections from Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (sometimes referred to as Volume 4 of Capital), supplemented by chapters from I.I. Rubin's History of Economic Thought.