The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence.
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Intro -- The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Marx, Irony and Ideology - Negotiating Meaning -- 2 Meaning as a Result of Textual Instigation and Interpellation -- 1 Contextualizing Marx: Differentiating to Embrace or to Reject? -- 1 Marx and Dewey -- 2 Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Marx's Works -- 3 The Cultural Lifespan of Scholarship -- 4 Marxian Ideology as Soviet, ergo, Undesired, Subjectivity -- 5 Marx's Un-American Attitude toward Religion -- 6 Marx's Unshaken Belief in Human Progress -- 2 Marxian or Marxism: Labels Differentiating Content or Fabricating Difference? -- 3 Textual Differences and Marx's Interdisciplinary Dialectics -- 1 Dialectics and Ideology Thinking, Researching and Incorporating Observations -- 2 Marxian Interdisciplinary Dialectics -- 3 Dialectics and Post-marxian Scholarship -- 4 Private Subjectivity - Alienation and Theory Production -- 1 Alienation as Creative Reification -- 2 Alienation and Ideological Resistance to Power Structures -- 3 Alienation and Scholastic Needs -- 5 Ideology as Public (Political) Subjectivity -- 1 Ideology through the Ages -- 2 The Case against (Academic) Ideological Purges -- 3 Mass Media - Technology Actuating Ideology -- 4 Ideological Meaning-Making -- 6 The Irony of Scholarship Production -- 1 Encoded Irony in T1 -- 2 Dormant Irony as T1's Textual Omissions -- 3 Textual Irony and Rorty's Intellectual Ironist -- 7 Ideological Irony - S2's Ideology Actuating T1's Irony -- 1 Irony and Direct Scholastic Criticism -- 2 Scholarship as (Ironic) Polite Criticism -- 8 The Bearable Lightness of Jurisprudential Irony -- 1 Jurisprudential Irony as an Inescapable Trade-Off between Scholastic Ambition and Reality. 2 Jurisprudential Irony and the Socratic Method of Teaching Law -- 3 Jurisprudential Irony - Byproduct of Legal Hegemony -- 4 Encoded Jurisprudential Irony -- 5 Jurisprudential Irony and the Supreme Court The Case of Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Neil Gorsuch -- 9 Philosophical Camaraderie, Ideological Difference, and Irony -- 1 Plato's Concepts of Just and Justice -- 2 Aristotle's Dialectical Universals -- 3 Thomas Hobbes and John Locke's Ideological Differences Lead to Diverse Epistemological Conclusions -- 4 The Intersection between the Abstract and Concrete Facets of the Law according to Montesquieu, Kant and Rousseau -- 5 Jeremy Bentham's Common Sense and Grotius' Technocratic Approach to Law -- 6 American Jurisprudence and Marx Strange Bedfellows . Not -- 10 Irony, Jurisprudential Meaning-Making, and Ideological Camaraderie -- 1 Classical Liberalism and Marx -- 2 Law as Science or the Rejection of Ideology -- 3 Formalism and Realism Two Sides of the Same Coin -- 4 The Limits of Rawls and Dworkin Justice and Historical Contingency -- 5 Critical Legal Studies and Marx -- 6 Feminism, Queer Theory and Marx -- 7 Intersectionality - Pragmatic Bridge between Theory and Reality -- Summary and Conclusion Ideological Irony and Liberal Scholarship -- References -- Index.
The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence employs a well-known body of work, Marx's, to explain the inevitable limits of scholarship, in hopes to encourage academic boldness, and diversity, especially within American jurisprudence.