Jacques Bidet (; born 1935) is a French philosopher and

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who is currently

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in the

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

Department at the Université de Paris X -

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. His works are mainly devoted to the construction of a theory of modern society under the name of Meta/structural theory (). Modern nation-states, as elements of world system, are structured on both market and organisation, supposedly rational mediations, as co-implied class factors. The philosophical, sociological, historical, legal-political and cultural aspects of this paradigm are developed in the sense of an Altermarxism, by contrast with

classical Marxism Classical Marxism is the body of economic, philosophical, and sociological theories expounded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their works, as contrasted with orthodox Marxism, Marxism–Leninism, and autonomist Marxism which emerged after t ...

. In 1989, he founded with Jacques Texier the journal ''

Actuel Marx ''Actuel Marx'' is a book series of Marxist studies, edited by Jacques Bidet, Gérard Duménil, and Emmanuel Renault. The series is published by the Presses universitaires de France with support from the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense ...

'' (Presses Universitaires de France), and in 1995, the Congrès Marx International ( Université de Paris X -

Publications

French

* , Klincksieck. 1985, 2° édition, PUF, 2000, 300 pp. Croatian, Japanese and Korean editions * Bidet, J. (1990). (Paris: PUF) 300 pp. Appeared in Spanish, Buenos Aires, Bellas Letras, 1993, in Italian, Roma, Laterza, 1993. * Bidet, J. (1995). (Paris: PUF) 140 pp. * Bidet, J. (1999). (Paris: PUF) 504 pp., Croatian edition (Disput, 2008, a revised shorter edition in 300 pp.), Chinese edition (Remnin Press, 2009). * (ed. with Eustache Kouvelakis) , PUF, 2001, 600 pp. Chinese edition (Remnin Press). * Bidet, J. (2004). (Paris: PUF) 320 pp. . Appeared in Spanish (LOM, Santiago, Chile) 2006, in Italian (Manifesto Libri, 2010), in Brazilian (EditoraUnicamp, 2010). To appear in Chinese (Social Science Academic Press). * Bidet, J. and Duménil, G. (2007). (Paris: PUF) 300 pp. ltermarxism, Another Marxism for another World Appeared in Spanish (Viejo Topo, 2009), in Polish (Dialog 2011), to appear in Chinese (Social Science Academic Press) and Korean. * Bidet, J. (2011). (Paris: PUF) 320 p. * Bidet, J. (2014). (Paris: La fabrique)

English

* Bidet, J. (1990). ''A Theory of Modernity'' * Bidet, J. (1995). ''John Rawls and the Theory of Justice'' * Bidet, J. (1999). ''A General Theory of Modernity'' * Bidet, J. (2004). ''Explanation and Reconstruction of Capital'' * Bidet, J. (2006). ''Exploring Marx’s

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'' (Boston: Leyden) * Bidet, J. and Duménil, G. (2007). ''Altermarxism: Another Marxism for Another World'' * Bidet, J. (2007). ''Critical Companion of Contemporary Marxism'' (Boston: Leyden) * Bidet, J. (2011). ''World State, Liberalism, Socialism, and Communism at Global Scale: A Refoundation of Marxism'' * Bidet, J. (2016). ''Foucault with Marx'' (London: Zed Books), trans. Steven Corcoran

Other translations

* Bidet, J. (2000

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. ''John Rawls y la Teoría de la justicia'' Spanish edition (Barcelona)

External links

official website
* http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=99397 - short overview of innovative and constructive critique of Bidet"s approach towards reading and understanding Marx"s Capital by professor D.Strpic {{DEFAULTSORT:Bidet, Jacques 1935 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Paris French political philosophers Marxist theorists 20th-century French philosophers 21st-century French philosophers 21st-century French writers French male writers