Adventures in Marxism

by Berman, Marshall

• ISBN13: 9781859843093
• ISBN10: 1859843093
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

Citing a lifelong engagement with Marxism, critic and writer Marshall Berman reveals the movement's positive points and suggests a new beginning for Marxism may be on the horizon with its recent 150th anniversary attention.

Author Biography

Marshall Berman has taught political theory and urbanism at the City University of New York since the late 1960s.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction Caught Up in the Mix: Some Adventures in Marxism	p. 1
Marx: The Dancer and the Dance	p. 19
Freedom and Fetishism	p. 37
Still Waiting at the Station	p. 57
Studs Terkel: Living in the Mural	p. 65
The People in Capital	p. 79
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: Marx, Modernism and Modernization	p. 91
The Signs in the Street	p. 153
From Paris to Gdansk	p. 171
Georg Lukacs's Cosmic Chutzpah	p. 181
Isaac Babel: Waiting for the Barbarians	p. 207
Meyer Schapiro: The Presence of the Subject	p. 221
Walter Benjamin: Angel in the City	p. 237
Unchained Melody	p. 253
Index	p. 269
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