The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence

Dana Neacsu is Librarian and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, and Adjunct Professor at Barnard College. She has published monographs, and many articles on jurisprudence, including Introduction to US Law and Legal Research (Transnational, 2005), Introduction to U.S. Law, Policy and Research — An Environmental Perspective (Vandeplas Publishing, 2019) (with Peter Bower) as well as Sexual Orientation, Gender Identities, and the Law: A Research Bibliography, (2006-2016) (Hein, 2018) (co-editor-in-chief, with David Brian Holt).

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1Marx, Irony and Ideology -- Negotiating Meaning

2Meaning as a Result of Textual Instigation and Interpellation

1Contextualizing Marx: Differentiating to Embrace or to Reject?

1Marx and Dewey

2Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Marx 's Works

3Cultural Lifespan

4Marxian Ideology as Soviet, ergo, Undesired, Subjectivity

5Marx 's Un-American Attitude toward Religion

6Marx 's Human Progress and Self-Promotion

2Marxian or Marxism: Labels Differentiating Content or Fabricating Difference?

3Textual Differences and Marx 's Interdisciplinary Dialectics

1Dialectics and Ideology: Thinking, Researching and Incorporating Observations

2Marxian Interdisciplinary Dialectics

3Dialectics and Post-Marxian Scholarship

4Private Subjectivity, Alienation and Theory Production

1Alienation as Creative Reification

2Alienation and Ideological Resistance to Power Structures

3Karl Marx, the Alienated Alienating Intellectual

5Ideology as Public (Political) Subjectivity

1Ideology through the Ages

2Marxian and Marxist Views on Ideology

3Academic (Ideological) Purges?

4Marx and Ideological Identity

5Ideology and Ideological Propaganda

6Mass Media -- Ideology Is the Message

6The Irony of Scholarship Production

1Encoded Irony in T₁

2Dormant Irony as T₁ Textual Omissions

3Textual Irony and Rorty 's Intellectual Ironist

7Ideological Irony -- S₂ Actuating T₁ 's Meaning

1Irony and Direct Scholastic Criticism

2Scholarship as (Ironic) Polite Criticis

8The Bearable Lightness of Jurisprudential Irony

1Jurisprudential Irony as Inescapable Trade-Off between Scholastic Ambition and Reality

2Jurisprudential Irony and the Socratic Method of Teaching Law

3Jurisprudential Irony -- Byproduct of Legal Hegemony

4Encoded Jurisprudential Irony

5United States Supreme Court Justices as Embodied Irony: The Late Justice Scalia and Justice Gorsuch

9Ironical Ideology, Difference of Meaning and Philosophical Camaraderie

1Plato 's Concepts of Just and Justice

2Aristotle 's Dialectical Universals

3Thomas Hobbes ' and John Locke 's Ideological Differences and Different Epistemological Conclusions

4The Intersection between the Abstract and Concrete Facets of the Law According to Montesquieu, Kant and Rousseau

5Jeremy Bentham 's Common Sense and Grotius ' Technocratic Approach to Law

6American Jurisprudence and Marx: Strange Bedfellows … Not

10Irony, Jurisprudential Meaning-Making and Ideological Camaraderie

1Classical Liberalism

2Law as Science or the Rejection of Ideology

3Formalism and Realism: Two Sides of the Same Coin

4The Limits of Rawls and Dworkin: Justice and Historical Contingency

5Critical Legal Studies and Marx

6Feminism and Queer Theory

7Intersectionality -- Bridging the Gap between Theory and Reality

Summary and Conclusion

References

Index