ABSTRACT
A closer look at contemporary developments in social theory, the Studies and moral and political philosophy reveals a certain form of unity. It comes from the fact that all these approaches are ‘critical’ and can be considered as so many transformations, extensions and recombinations of a common Marxist matrix. The analysis and diagnosis of the present take the form of a circular investigation of the conditions of possibility and impossibility of liberation and emancipation of the subject from the structures of domination and oppression. That is why the people deem a clarification of their relation to Marxism essential. The great works of the social sciences can be regarded as attempts to define realistic and plausible positions between the theoretical, ethical and political extremities of Marxism. Despite all its actualizations and refurbishments, it’s always the same old grand narrative that is rehearsed and that locks the imagination into a series of endless repetitions.
