07/30/2014 Bulletin Board
A contemporary approach to the young Karl Marx demands that we call to mind the much unattended Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 [a.k.a. the Paris Manuscripts), the posthumous collection of published notes antedating his giant works The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. At least in the eyes of his readership, the EPM appears to be no less philosophically compelling than Marx's mature works, radicalizing and redefining the politico-economic landscape of its day. One will find in it a rather audacious, early criticism of the excesses of Adam Smith-based economics, whose underlying philosophies of profiteering may have contributed greatly to the augmentation of debilitating alienation and objectification of labourers in our time, It will highlight as well Marx's early appraisals of the Hegelian dialectic that culminates into the Absolute, also in anticipation of his later books.
Although much can be asserted about its philosophical potentials, critics have declared that the EPM seems to be lacking the "scientific" power of analysis of a Das Kapital, causing it to be ignored in intellectual circles from the Soviet bloc to the Mainland. Recent scholorshlp, however, has caught a glimpse of Marx's unmistakable voice in the manuscripts, enabling its insertion to contemporary history, in our economic situation where, borrowinq from current literature, proletariats have turned into cognitariats and further transformed into precariats.
Hence, the 2014 issue of the Mabini Review will celebrate the 170th anniversary of the Paris Manuscripts highlighting contemporary approaches on the study of Marx and his legacy in and out of the academic backdraff.
Submissions, should be in .doc format, formatted in Chicago-Turabian Style, and limited from 7,000-10,000 words only. It should include the author's name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address and an abstract of 250 words with maximum of 5 keywords. All submissions should be sent to ics@pup.edu.ph.
Deadline: 30 August 2014
Expected publication: 10 October 2014
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