Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism

by Bidet, Jacques; Kouvelakis, Stathis

• ISBN13: 9789004145986
• ISBN10: 9004145982
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

The Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism is an international and interdisciplinary volume which aims to provide a thorough and precise panorama of recent developments in Marxist theory in the US, Europe, Asia and beyond. Drawing on the work of thirty of the most authoritative scholars, the Companion spans all the humanities and social sciences, with particular emphasis on philosophy. The work is divided into three parts: 'General Trends', which provides a broad intellectual and historical context; 'Currents', which tracks the trajectories of twenty specific currents or disciplinary fields; and 'Figures', which examines in detail the work of fifteen key actors of Marxist or para-Marxist theory (Adorno, Althusser, Badiou, Benjamin, Bhaskar, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, Jameson, Lefebvre, Uno, Williams). The Companion is set to be unsurpassed for many years, in breadth and depth, as the definitive guide to contemporary Marxism.}/pa Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Marxism, Post-Marxism, Neo-Marxisms	p. xi
Prefigurations
A Key to the Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism	p. 3
The Crises of Marxism and the Transformation of Capitalism	p. 23
The Development of Marxism: From the End of Marxism-Leninism to a Thousand Marxisms - France-Italy, 1975-2005	p. 39
Whither Anglo-Saxon Marxism?	p. 79
Old Theories and New Capitalism: The Actuality of a Marxist Economics	p. 95
Configurations
Analytical Marxism	p. 123
The Frankfurt School's Critical Theory: From Neo-Marxism to 'Post-Marxism'	p. 143
The Late Lukacs and the Budapest School	p. 163
The Regulation School: A One-Way Ticket from Marx to Social Liberalism?	p. 175
Ecological Marxism or Marxian Political Ecology?	p. 189
Theories of the Capitalist World-System	p. 209
Liberation-Theology Marxism	p. 225
Market Socialism: Problems and Models	p. 233
The American Radicals: A Subversive Current at the Heart of the Empire	p. 255
Political Marxism	p. 267
From 'Mass Worker' to 'Empire': The Disconcerting Trajectory of Italian Operaismo	p. 285
Marxism and Postcolonial Studies	p. 309
British Marxist History	p. 333
Developments in Marxist Class Analysis	p. 353
New Interpretations of Capital	p. 369
The New Dialectic	p. 385
States, State Power, and State Theory	p. 413
Marxism and Theories of Racism	p. 431
Historical Materialism and International Relations	p. 453
Marxism and Language	p. 471
Figures
Adorno and Marx	p. 489
Louis Althusser, or the Impure Purity of the Concept	p. 503
Marxism Expatriated: Alain Badiou's Turn	p. 529
Revolutionary Potential and Walter Benjamin: A Postwar Reception History	p. 549
Critical Realism and Beyond: Roy Bhaskar's Dialectic	p. 567
Bourdieu and Historical Materialism	p. 587
Deleuze, Marx and Revolution: What It Means to 'Remain Marxist'	p. 605
Jacques Derrida: 'Crypto-Communist'?	p. 625
Foucault, Reader and Critic of Marx	p. 647
Beyond the Crisis of Marxism: Gramsci's Contested Legacy	p. 663
Falling Short of Marx: Habermas	p. 679
Fredric Jameson: An Unslaked Thirst for Totalisation	p. 697
Henri Lefebvre, Thinker of Urban Modernity	p. 711
Kozo Uno and His School: A Pure Theory of Capitalism	p. 729
Raymond Williams	p. 741
Notes on Contributors	p. 751
Bibliography	p. 755
Index	p. 801
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