tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post2224746002248533377..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING -- FINAL PARTRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-26465344877565960052013-03-03T13:40:39.740-05:002013-03-03T13:40:39.740-05:00A perhaps insuperable problem for any effort to av...A perhaps insuperable problem for any effort to avoid such mystification is the subject-predicate structure of grammar, which encourages the atomization and reification of any 'subject'.Don Schneierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751277350617015241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-53774192924986936352013-03-02T16:01:01.474-05:002013-03-02T16:01:01.474-05:00That is an interesting question, and I don't h...That is an interesting question, and I don't have a snappy answer to it. Novelists, of course, often adopt an ironic relation to their narrators [see Thackery and Becky Sharp, for example], but CAPITAL is not a novel. I think Marx was fully aware of the complexity of the "voice" in which he wrote CAPITAL, for all that he might not have described it as I have. There are lots of places [some of which I cite] in which he makes it clear that he understands the multi-layered nature of what he is saying.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-20727990346111748842013-03-02T15:10:50.575-05:002013-03-02T15:10:50.575-05:00If Capital has a fundamentally ironic structure, d...If Capital has a fundamentally ironic structure, doesn't this imply an ironic distance between Marx himself and the "Marx" who purports to be the author of the book? If so, was Marx himself aware of this distance or was he himself at least partially the victim of his own irony? Conrad Deckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07965085467585011371noreply@blogger.com