Tag: Political Theory

by Retrospect Journal 09/05/2021 0

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Redefining Humanity: Political Philosophy in African British Anti-Slavery Literature

Written by Charlie Horlick. Ottobah Cugoano’s writing has been typically framed as a slave narrative, yet it is perhaps more than that. Part political economy, part meditation on morality, it should be integrated into the canon of eighteenth-century philosophy.

by Retrospect Journal 14/02/2021 1

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History’s Underground Current, the Marxist Theory of History, its Faults, and Possible Resolutions

Written by Inge Erdal. Marxism has often been critiqued as teleological – reliant on an inevitable march towards communism through the motor of class struggle. Althusser may offer a route out of this critique through his notion of the “underground current.”