SOME CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR ANTIESSENTIALISM

A so‐called “going beyond” Marxism will be at worst only a return to pre‐Marxism; at best, only the rediscovery of a thought already contained in the philosophy which one believes he has gone beyond. As for “revisionism,” this is either a truism or an absurdity. There is no need to readapt a living philosophy to the course of the world; it adapts itself by means of thousands of new efforts, thousands of particular pursuits, for the philosophy is one with the movement of society. —J.‐P. Sartre, Search for a Method (1968: 7) Copyright © 1992, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved