Firearms & the Fortress. Cool Millennium Modern European Philosophy, #2

Par : James Ward
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  • ISBN8231265947
  • EAN9798231265947
  • Date de parution12/06/2025
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  • ÉditeurWalzone Press

Résumé

Karl Marx's so-called theory of historical materialism has been one of the most influential social and political ideas in human history, but what if it missed something crucial? Science - even in the loose sense in which it applies to sociology - is never complete, and occasionally, a new insight may reveal the need for a thoroughgoing revision. Firearms & the Fortress argues that the means of production - the most basic 'level' in Marx's schema - can only be predicated on the basis of something even more fundamental: 'the means of securitisation.' Along the way, we get an overview of recent critical theory and an attempt to map out a road to a better world.  James Ward is the author of 21st Century Philosophy (2012) and A New Theory of Justice and Other Essays (2013).
His 1998 Master's dissertation explored the relation between the eternal and the temporal in Søren Kierkegaard's 'authorship', while his 2001 doctoral thesis focused on Karl Marx's critique of Max Stirner in The German Ideology.  Whilst working towards his MA, he won joint first prize (along with Martha Nussbaum and Lars Gårding) in a philosophical dialogues competition organised by the Humanities Research Centre at Oxford University and the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, on the topic of Kierkegaard's concept of 'Repetition'.
The piece was subsequently performed in Stockholm before an invited audience, and published in Comparative Criticism (vol. 20, Cambridge University Press, 1998).
James Ward lives and works in southern England and has been married for over forty years. He has two grown-up boys. His hobbies include walking with his dog in the countryside, visiting charity shops, and reading. He writes fiction, philosophy and poetry, and publishes under the "Cool Millennium Books" imprint (which he hopes one day to broaden to include other authors, and which has its own website).
He has over 40, 000 followers on TikTok, where he regularly posts videos about serious literature. He can also be found on YouTube. His most ambitious project, the Tales of MI7 series, was written between 2010 and 2020. It consists of eighteen self-contained novels, set in contemporary London and linked by characters and timeline. It was never intended to be a "series" in the sense of a continuous narrative across different volumes; rather, readers can enjoy any one book without having read the others.
All examine the major political, social, international and moral concerns of the second decade of the 21st century. Each individual volume - with the exception of Our Woman in Jamaica - was written contemporaneously with the year in which it was set. Beginning in 2025 with Firearms & the Fortress, he intends to re-focus his energies on producing philosophical texts intended to throw light on the contemporary world (His 21st Century Philosophy and A New Theory of Justice were both produced over a decade ago).
He has an MA and a DPhil in Philosophy, both from the University of Sussex.
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