The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence

279 Pages·2019·2.111 MB·English

by  Dana Neacsu

The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American
Jurisprudence
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The Bourgeois Charm of Karl
Marx and the Ideological Irony of
American Jurisprudence
By
Dana Neacşu
leiden | boston
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Cover illustration: “The Discrete Irony of Karl Marx” by Calin Liviu Georgescu and Dana Neacsu, 2019.
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Names: Neacsu, Dana, author.
Title: The bourgeois charm of Karl Marx & the ideological irony of American
jurisprudence / by Dana Neacsu.
Other titles: Bourgeois charm of Karl Marx and the ideological irony of
American jurisprudence
Description: Leiden; Boston: Brill, [2020] | Series: Studies in critical
social sciences, 1573–4234; volume 158 | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019042148 (print) | LCCN 2019042149 (ebook) | ISBN
9789004415584 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004415591 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Law and socialism. | Jurisprudence--United States. | Marx,
Karl, 1818–1883--Influence.
Classification: LCC K357 .N43 2020 (print) | LCC K357 (ebook) | DDC
340/.1150973--dc23
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Cu dragoste, I dedicate this book to my daughters
Absy, ZouZou, and Izzie
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Ironically, the relationship between status quo and ideology is the
same as that between revolutions and ideology. Whether willingly
or not, academia is called upon to decipher it.
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Contents
Acknowledgments  XI
List of Illustrations  XII
Introduction  1
1 Marx, Irony and Ideology – Negotiating Meaning  5
2 Meaning as a Result of Textual Instigation and
Interpellation  9
1 Contextualizing Marx: Differentiating to Embrace or to
Reject?  17
1 Marx and Dewey  23
2 Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Marx’s Works  29
3 The Cultural Lifespan of Scholarship  31
4 Marxian Ideology as Soviet, ergo, Undesired, Subjectivity  36
5 Marx’s Un-American Attitude toward Religion  37
6 Marx’s Unshaken Belief in Human Progress  40
2 Marxian or Marxism: Labels Differentiating Content or Fabricating
Difference?  43
3 Textual Differences and Marx’s Interdisciplinary Dialectics  50
1 Dialectics and Ideology: Thinking, Researching and Incorporating
Observations  51
2 Marxian Interdisciplinary Dialectics  53
3 Dialectics and Post-Marxian Scholarship  66
4 Private Subjectivity – Alienation and Theory Production  72
1 Alienation as Creative Reification  74
2 Alienation and Ideological Resistance to Power Structures  78
3 Alienation and Scholastic Needs  81
5 Ideology as Public (Political) Subjectivity  85
1 Ideology through the Ages  86
2 The Case against (Academic) Ideological Purges  94
3 Mass Media – Technology Actuating Ideology  106
4 Ideological Meaning-Making  113
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6 The Irony of Scholarship Production  118
1 Encoded Irony in T₁  119
2 Dormant Irony as T₁’s Textual Omissions  125
3 Textual Irony and Rorty’s Intellectual Ironist  127
7 Ideological Irony – S₂’s Ideology Actuating T₁’s Irony  131
1 Irony and Direct Scholastic Criticism  135
2 Scholarship as (Ironic) Polite Criticism  137
8 The Bearable Lightness of Jurisprudential Irony  141
1 Jurisprudential Irony as an Inescapable Trade-Off between
Scholastic Ambition and Reality  143
2 Jurisprudential Irony and the Socratic Method of Teaching
Law  145
3 Jurisprudential Irony – Byproduct of Legal Hegemony  147
4 Encoded Jurisprudential Irony  153
5 Jurisprudential Irony and the Supreme Court: The Case of Justice
Antonin Scalia and Justice Neil Gorsuch  159
9 Philosophical Camaraderie, Ideological Difference, and Irony  167
1 Plato’s Concepts of Just and Justice  170
2 Aristotle’s Dialectical Universals  173
3 Thomas Hobbes and John Locke’s Ideological Differences Lead to
Diverse Epistemological Conclusions  176
4 The Intersection between the Abstract and Concrete Facets of the
Law according to Montesquieu, Kant and Rousseau  180
5 Jeremy Bentham’s Common Sense and Grotius’ Technocratic
Approach to Law  184
6 American Jurisprudence and Marx: Strange Bedfellows …
Not  188
10 Irony, Jurisprudential Meaning-Making and Ideological
Camaraderie  192
1 Classical Liberalism and Marx  194
2 Law as Science or the Rejection of Ideology  200
3 Formalism and Realism: Two Sides of the Same Coin  204
4 The Limits of Rawls and Dworkin: Justice and Historical
Contingency  206
5 Critical Legal Studies and Marx  213
6 Feminism, Queer Theory and Marx  217
7 Intersectionality – Pragmatic Bridge between Theory and
Reality  220
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Contents ix
Summary and Conclusion: Ideological Irony and Liberal
Scholarship  229
References  237
Index  262
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