Ontología marxista y archipolítica en Gérard Granel

Abstract

The article offers an explanation of Gérard Granel’s thesis on the “Marxist ontology”, proposed in his reading of Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. This thesis asserts that production is the sense of being. Attention is given to the different philosophical implications of such reading, from the debate settled with Althusser’s tesis on the “epistemological break”, through all the affinities that Granel observes between Marx and Heidegger’s thought (displacement of the subject, end of philosophy, ontological difference). From there on, the notion of “archi-politics”, coined by Granel, is addressed regarding Marxist ontology. It is shown how it is possible to understand the thesis of a “homology” between modern technology and capital, as well as to elucidate some of its strictly political consequences. The article concludes pointing out some critical points of Granel’s work regarding deconstruction; this is to say, regarding both Heidegger and Derrida.