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Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory: Media, Communication and Society Volume One

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This book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory. It analyzes the role of communication in capitalist society. Engaging with the works of critical thinkers such as Erich Fromm, EP Thompson, Raymond Williams, Henri Lefebvre, Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann, Günther Anders, MN Roy, Angela Davis, CLR James, Rosa Luxemburg, Eve Mitchell, and Cedric J. Robinson , the book provides readings of works that inform our understanding of how to critically theorise communication in society. The topics covered include the relationship of capitalism, racism, and patriarchy; communication and alienation; the base/superstructure-problem; the question of how one should best define communication; the political economy of communication; ideology critique; the connection of communication and struggles for alternatives. Written for a broad audience of students and scholars interested in contemporary critical theory, this book will be useful for courses in media and communication studies, cultural studies, Internet research, sociology, philosophy, political science, and economics. This is the first of five Communication and Society volumes, each one outlining a particular aspect of the foundations of a critical theory of communication in society.

Author(s): Christian Fuchs
Series: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021

Language: English

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter One. Introduction
1.1. What is Marxist humanism?
Hegel and dialectical philosophy
Practices
Praxis
Human essence
Alienation
Democratic socialism, socialist democracy
Open Marxism
Truth
Ideology critique
Critical ethics
Marx' works
1.2. Why do we need Marxist humanism today?
1.3. The structure of this book
1.4. Alienation
Literature
Chapter Two. Erich Fromm and the critical theory of communication
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Communication
2.2.1. Erich Fromm on communication
2.2.2. An update of Erich Fromm's concept of communication
2.3. Ideology
2.3.1. Erich Fromm on ideology
2.3.2. An update of Erich Fromm's concept of ideology
2.4. Technology
2.4.1. Erich Fromm on technology
2.4.2. An update of Erich Fromm's concept of technology
2.5. Conclusion
Literature
Chapter Three. Revisiting the Althusser/E. P. Thompson-controversy: Towards a Marxist theory of communication
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Background
3.3. Louis Althusser
3.4. Edward P. Thompson
3.5. Towards a critical theory of communication
3.5.1. Communication in society: communication as the process of (re)producing social relations within societal relations
3.5.2. Class and domination
3.5.3. Communication as societal commoning
3.6. Conclusion
Literature
Chapter Four. Raymond Williams's communicative materialism
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The materialist theory of communication
4.3. Communicative materialism and the "base"/ "superstructure"-problem
4.4. Ideology
4.5. Conclusion
Literature
Chapter Five. Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space and the critical theory of communication
5.1. Introduction
5.2. The history and contemporary status of Marxist communication theory
5.3. Henri Lefebvre's theory
5.3.1. Humanism and structuralism
5.3.2. The social production of space
5.3.3. Information and communication technologies in capitalism
5.4. Lefebvre and communication theory
5.4.1. Humanism and structuralism
5.4.2. The social production of space
5.4.3. Information and communication technologies in capitalism
5.5. Conclusion
Literature
Chapter Six. Towards a critical theory of communication with Georg Lukács and Lucien Goldmann
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Aspects of communication in Georg Lukács's Eigenart des Ästhetischen
6.3. Aspects of communication in Lucien Goldmann's works
6.4. Conclusion
Literature
Chapter Seven. Günther Anders's critical theory of technology
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The Promethean gap
7.2.1. Prometheus
7.2.2. Technological fetishism
7.2.3. Big data fetishism
7.2.4. Post-humanist ideology
7.3. Günther Anders's analysis of television and radio
7.3.1. Audience and consumer labour
7.3.2. Ideology and the media
7.3.3. Alternatives
7.4. Conclusion
Literature
Chapter Eight. Jean-Paul Sartre as social theorist of communication. A theoretical engagement with "Critique of Dialectical Reason"
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Language and communication in society
Praxis
The dialectic of structures and practices
Work and communication
Mediation and communication
The practico-inert and language
8.3. Communication in capitalism
Direct and indirect communication
Communication and power
Democratic and capitalist communication
YouTube is not participatory culture, but serial communication
8.4. Ideology and reification
Alienation and reification
Ideology
Analytical reason
Computational social science and big data analytics as analytical reason
Advertising and consumer capitalism
Racism
Stalinism
8.5. Conclusion
Literature
Chapter Nine. M. N. Roy, socialist humanism, and the critical analysis of communication
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Humanism
9.2.1. Humanism as romanticism
9.2.2. Marx and humanism
9.3. Technology
9.3.1. Roy and Gandhi
9.3.2. The dialectic of modern technology and society
9.4. Culture and communication
9.4.1. Materialism and society
9.4.2. Culture and the economy
9.4.3. Communication
9.5. Conclusions
Humanism
Technology
Communication and culture
Literature
Chapter Ten. Capitalism, racism, patriarchy
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Housework, reproductive labour, and capitalism
Reproductive labour
Marxist/socialist feminism version 1
Marxist/socialist feminism version 2
Wages for housework
Reproductive labour time
10.3. Capitalism and racism
Ancient and feudal slavery
Angela Davis' Black feminist Marxism
Slavery
Cedric J. Robinson: racial capitalism
Eric J. Hobsbawm: nationalism
Marx on slavery
Carter Wilson: dimensions of racism
Working conditions of Afro-Americans
The prison-industrial complex
10.4. Capitalism, racism, patriarchy
Intersectionality theory
Critiques of intersectionality theory
Alienation
Zillah Eisenstein on alienation
Communication in the context of class, racism, and gender-related oppression
David R. Roediger: Wages of whiteness
Economical, political and ideological surpluses
W. E. B. Du Bois
The normalisation of overexploitation
A typology of wage labour, slave labour, reproductive labour, and racialised labour based on Marisol Sandoval's work
10.5. Conclusion
Rosa Luxemburg: Milieus of primitive accumulation
Summary
Literature
Chapter Eleven. Conclusion
11.1. Capitalism, racism, patriarchy
11.2. The base/superstructure-problem
11.3. Theorising communication
11.4. The political economy of communication
11.5. Ideology critique
11.6. Communication/struggles/alternatives
11.7. Communication and alienation
11.8. Humanism
Index