Happy Apparition Day! I thought, since (like the other crossover days) we have two, that we can bring a different focus to each. On this side of the year we can explore peer review of philosophy, and on October 12, that of the arts. Further, since the video we have been watching suggests many authors and books to help us understand power, today would be appropriate to list them.
Hedges, although not a Marxist, tells us that Part I of Karl Marx’s Capital is the best work on understanding the subject. He also mentions Friedrich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England. Other works he speaks of are Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. Other authors he brings up are:
He brings special attention to James Baldwin as the author who best understands American culture and as the best exemplar of Immanuel Kant’s moral imperative. I’ll discuss this imperative soon.
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