The Concrete Materialism of Fernand Deligny: Toward a Thought of the Human Milieu

Abstract:Deligny's practical theory can be envisioned as a materialism. This materialism is based on the dialectical, conflictual, symbiotic, and bipolar coexistence of the "human" and the "Man-that-we-are," of the innate and the acquired, and of the milieu of the human and that of the animal. It is founded with a view to the space—the conditions and circumstances—that make it so that the individual becomes what they are. In brief his materialism is heir to a thought of the milieu as a determinate dimension of the production of the individual. This article was originally published in French in "Lenine," Actuel Marx, no. 62 (2017): 124–39.