Moishe Postone
| Moishe "Morris" Postone | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Title | Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of the College, History, and the Center for Jewish Studies |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Dr.Phil. |
| Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Thesis title | The Present as Necessity: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Marxian Critique of Labor and Time |
| Thesis year | 1983 |
| Doctoral advisor | Iring Fetscher, Albrecht Wellmer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub discipline | Modern European intellectual history, social theory, critical theory, 20th century Germany |
| Institutions | The University of Chicago, |
| Doctoral students | Loïc Wacquant |
| Notable works | Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory |
Moishe Postone (born 1942) is a Canadian Western Marxist historian, philosopher and political economist. He is Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he is part of the Committee on Jewish Studies.
Moishe Postone, son of a Canadian Rabbi, received his Ph.D. from University of Frankfurt in 1983.
His research interests include modern European intellectual history; social theory, especially critical theories of modernity; twentieth-century Germany; anti-Semitism; and contemporary global transformations. He is co-editor with Craig Calhoun and Edward LiPuma of Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives and author of Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory. He is also co-editor with Eric Santner of Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century, a collection of essays that consider the meaning of the holocaust in twentieth-century history and its influence on historical practice. Postone's work has had a large influence on the anti-Germans.
He was originally denied tenure by the University of Chicago's Sociology Department, sparking a great deal of public resentment from graduate students whom he had been involved in teaching. He was later granted tenure by the History Department.
Today Moishe Postone is the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Modern History and co-director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.
In 1978 Postone started a critical analysis on Marx's theory of value. But Moishe Postone's most distinguished main work, 'Time, Labor and Social Domination', was published in 1993 (translated into French in 2009 and Japanese in 2012).
In his works he proposes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's critique of political economy, focusing on Marx's original concepts value, capital and labour. Inspired by heterodox Marxist thinkers such as Isaak Rubin, Roman Rosdolsky, etc., and certain authors of the Frankfurt School, e.g., Sohn-Rethel, who remained marginal to that school, he shows that the assumptions of the 'pessimistic turn' of Horkheimer were historically rather than theoretically founded. Postone interprets critical writings on Marx's economics, especially in its Capital 1 edition, and Grundrisse, as the development of a social-mediational theory of value.
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