Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Materialist philosophy confronts a persistent dichotomy: humanism versus anti-humanism. Marx embodies this split. The young Marx theorized alienation and proclaimed human-centricity in his theses on Feuerbach, a humanist gesture. The mature Marx analyzed capital’s cold mechanics, mapping the flows beneath production relations, an apparent turn from humanism. Yet throughout, Marx remained committed to one project:…
Wilfrid Sellars’s diagnosis of contemporary philosophy continues to delineate its current state. Within it, two rival “images” of being-in-the-world are opposed: on the one hand, the manifest image—the present self-conception through philosophical reflection; on the other, the scientific image—the formulation of the human as a complex physical system….