An Orphan Materialism: The Hermeneutics of Restoration in the Rozitchnerian Reading of Marx

Abstract

The objective of this work is to recover the decisive characteristics of the interpretation of Marx made by Rozitchner. To achieve this goal, I will analyze two fundamental characte-ristics of the rozitchnerian hermeneutics: on one hand, suspicion; on the other, restoration. In the first case, it is an interpretative exercise anchored in the reading of the blind spots of the other’s conceptualization. In the second, it alludes to a movement subsequent to suspicion, consisting of the replacement of certain fundamental affective indices. Howe-ver, the hypothesis of the work maintains that, in his last stage of production, Rozitchner emphasized the hermeneutics of restoration as a privileged way of reading. In this manner, I will focus on the mythological-political period of rozitchnerian writing to observe the way in which both interpretative modalities were developed, paying special attention to the hermeneutics of restoration as the predominant form of reading.