The first discussion was about Marx and we focused on two pieces
The 1859 Preface (a classic piece on Marx's political economy, containing all the famous phrases about base and superstructure, determinism in the last instance, the critique of philosophy etc)
The 18th Brumaire... (a much more detailed analysis of the bizarre turn of events in France in 1851 when, after a promising revolution overthrowing the monarchy of Louis Philippe, Louis Napoleon, or Napoleon the 3rd, came to power). Marx's style is superbly demonstrated here too.
You can find both of these pieces, and just about everything else, on the excellent online Marx-Engels Internet Archive. It has a very useful search engine too.
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I made note of some theorists referred to during our discussion:
ReplyDelete* A.N. Whitehead on the reconceptualisation of empiricism. Found this on Whiteheadian methodology that may be interesting: http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/25/4/31.abstract
* David Harvey's online course Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey http://davidharvey.org/
* Fredric Jameson's reinterpretation of Capital http://www.amazon.co.uk/Representing-Capital-Reading-Fredric-Jameson/dp/1844674541