As I’ve mentioned here before, in recent months I’ve edited a translation, compiled the notes, and written an introduction for a forthcoming book.
The publisher is Meson Press (a new publisher based at Lüneborg University) and their website is now available, so I’m able to say that it’s Kostas Axelos’s book Einführung in ein künftiges Denken: Über Marx und Heidegger, Max Niemeyer: Tübingen, 1966. This will appear as a book, and open access e-book, later this year – probably September or October.
I’ve long found Axelos’s work inspiring, and interviewed him for Radical Philosophy in 2004. I’ve also written book chapters about his links with Henri Lefebvre and his editing of the Arguments journal and book series. I have wanted to get more of his work translated for some time, so was very pleased to be involved with this project; though it’s a shame it didn’t happen while he was alive. Axelos is relatively little-known in English-speaking debates – with only one of his books and a few articles previously translated (bibliography here). I’m hoping this book will be a contribution to making him a little better known.
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It will be good to have this in English! I wonder what the copyright status is for the translation of Marx penseur de la technique. I bought a copy of it shortly after it came out and probably still have it in my office, but I don’t recall ever reading it systematically (which means that it may have escaped all the underlining that I used to inflict on books!).
I have been trying to get verso to reissue it in their Radical Thinkers series for a while…
Congratulations, Stuart!
There’s not very much in German on Marx and Heidegger (I wonder why…). The Swedish journal, Subaltern, did a special issue in 2009 ( http://www.tidskrift.nu/artikel.php?Id=6333 ) on this connection in which H.D. Kittsteiner, Kostas Axelos and myself were featured. In the editorial it reads in part (translated) “Money’s significance for our lives … is what has brought the philosophers H.D. Kittsteiner, Kostas Axelos and Michael Eldred to turn their attention to the two controversial thinkers, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx, in order to help us grasp our time and a world that reduces everything to measurement and value. In this issue of Subaltern we present these thinkers’ analyses of the Marx/Heidegger connection,…” My book “Kapital und Technik: Marx und Heidegger” was published in 2000 by ontos verlag. Frankfurt. At artefact I also published ( http://www.arte-fact.org/ktstmxhd.html ) in 2009 a critique of Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner’s 2004 book “Mit Marx für Heidegger – Mit Heidegger für Marx” Fink, Munich.
Thanks Michael. Axelos was early in working through this relation – Marcuse ahead of him, I suppose. But there is more – though still not much – today.
At least my German book was published in English in Left Curve, Oakland, Ca. in 2000 and also in Chinese. For the English version and further publication details see http://www.arte-fact.org/capiteen.html.
Unfortunately the link on the Left Curve page is broken. Any idea of the correct link?
The Left Curve No. 24 page http://www.leftcurve.org/LC24WebPages/LC24toc.html has a link to my “Capital and Technology” that in fact refers back to (the old URL of) my web-site, so in effect back to http://www.arte-fact.org/capiteen.html By the way, there’s also an as yet unpublished Spanish translation of this study. That’s part of the politics of publishing on the connection Marx and Heidegger. One of the important mentors of my doctoral dissertation was Hans-Georg Backhaus (born 1930), a student of Adorno’s in Frankfurt. He read Heidegger, but it was beyond the pale to allow oneself to be at all ‘influenced’. Today, Heidegger is still a no-go zone for the German left, with few exceptions. As a naive Australian in Germany, I had more freedom to transgress where Backhaus did not dare to tread.
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Have there been any updates on this? Any idea when it will appear?
It has been delayed, but we’ve nearly finished the copyediting and hopefully it won’t be too much longer. Thanks for the interest.