Sexe non humain dans le Manuscrit de Kreuznach : 1843
Abstract
Non-human sex in the Kreuznach Manuscript: 1843
In 1972, the introduction of a non-human sex by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus produced a disruptive effect. The authors credit Jean-François Lyotard with finding this conceptual hapax in the margins of Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. However, neither Lyotard nor Deleuze and Guattari, who each interpret and develop the theoretical implications of non-human sex in their own way, seriously confront themselves with the Marxian excerpt. This article restores the notion of non-human sex as it appears in Marx's commentary, where it first breaks through as a "truly in real extreme" to challenge the role assigned to reflexive mediation in the Hegelian state, and undertakes a close rereading of those few pages where the said notion bursts in, to pose a hypothesis: non-human sex is the bearer, as early as 1843, of the early stages of the category of proletariat. Towards the end, this text opens a discussion with Lacan's analytic anthropology and with a text by Étienne Balibar on the unassignable humanity of the political subject, to measure the scope of Deleuzo-Guattarian non-human sex as a powerful theoretical-practical tool in support of emancipatory struggles.
Keywords: non-human sex, Manuscript of 43, proletariat, anthropological difference, schizoanalysis
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