The Reception of the Work of Juan Carlos Rodríguez: Obstacles and Perspectives (Case Study: on Journeys through the Ideological Unconscious (2022), by Malcolm K. Read)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2023.69.16Keywords:
Reception, field, Althusserian Marxism, Philosophy and Literature, ideological unconsciousAbstract
This paper examines the reception of the work of the Marxist philosopher and Hispanist Juan Carlos Rodríguez Gómez (1942-2016) -a renovator of Marxism- by a representative of Anglo-Saxon Marxist Hispanism, Professor Malcolm K. Read. The paper approaches his reading by focusing on his latest book, but making references to other earlier works. Read’s book offers a doubly vantage point of view, because of the author’s academic work between theory and literary studies and because of his situation in the Anglo-Saxon university field; therefore, it was possible to see both the potential and the obstacles of Rodríguez’s work for its reception outside Spain (in Anglo-Saxon Marxism), but also its difficulties in its internal reception. The present article points out the insightfulness of his analyses, adding on some discussion and observations to nuance Read’s complex commentaries.
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