Repenser l’héritage critique des revues

• Main Authors: Thomas Franck, Caroline Glorie, Alain Loute
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: ENS Éditions 2019-06-01
• Series: Tracés
• Subjects: journal; inheritance; cultural industry; Heterodox Marxism; Franco-German exchanges; power
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/traces/9145

This paper starts from the ambivalent relation that links researchers and intellectual journals during the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. After questioning the definition of these journals as critical media of knowledge, as specific supports for the elaboration, the circulation and the appropriation of critical theories, we will focus on the meaning of this ambivalence. The first ambivalence analysed is the one that links intellectual journals from the years 30’s to 60’s that assume a critical perspective and the cultural industry (Kulturindustrie). In the continuity of this investigation, we will try to understand how to think today this relation to intellectual journals. Does this apparent ambivalence prevent the production of critical knowledges? Due to the inherent complexity and the contradictive substance of intellectual journals, our perspective gives rise to an interest for the notion of inheritance: how could we inherit, as researchers in Humanities and as journal producers, these fundamental contradictions ? We will suggest, as last questioning, some critical commentaries, on the one hand, about the work produced by the Groupe de recherches matérialistes (GRM) in relation with problematic inheritances – the inheritance of intellectual journals and the inheritance of heterodox marxisms –, and, on the other hand, about the form that has to be developed by an intellectual journal today