Critical companion to contemporary Marxism / / edited by Jacques Bidet and Stathis Kouvelakis.

• Superior document: Historical materialism ; v. 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Bidet, Jacques.; Kouvelakis, Eustache, 1965-
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; v. 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (829 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Dictionnaire Marx contemporain. English.; Preliminary material /; Chapter One. A key to the critical companion to contemporary marxism /; Chapter Two. The crises of marxism and the transformation of capitalism /; Chapter Three. The development of marxism: From the end of marxism-leninism to a thousand marxisms – France-Italy, 1975–2005 /; Chapter Four. Whither anglo-saxon marxism? /; Chapter Five. Old theories and new capitalism: The actuality of a marxist economics /; Chapter Six. Analytical marxism /; Chapter Seven. The Frankfurt school’s critical theory: From neo-marxism to ‘post-marxism’ /; Chapter Eight. The late Lukács and the Budapest school /; Chapter Nine. The regulation school: A one-way ticket from Marx to social liberalism? /; Chapter Ten. Ecological marxism or marxian political ecology? /; Chapter Eleven. Theories of the capitalist world-system /; Chapter Twelve. Liberation-theology marxism /; Chapter Thirteen. Market socialism: Problems and models /; Chapter Fourteen. The american radicals: A subversive current at the heart of the empire /; Chapter Fifteen. Political marxism /; Chapter Sixteen. From ‘mass worker’ to ‘empire’: The disconcerting trajectory of italian operaismo /; Chapter Seventeen. Marxism and postcolonial studies /; Chapter Eighteen. British marxist history /; Chapter Nineteen. Developments in marxist class analysis /; Chapter Twenty. New interpretations of capital /; Chapter Twenty-One. The new dialectic /; Chapter Twenty-Two. States, state power, and state theory /; Chapter Twenty-Three. Marxism and theories of racism /; Chapter Twenty-Four. Historical materialism and international relations /; Chapter Twenty-Five. Marxism and language /; Chapter Twenty-Six. Adorno and Marx /; Chapter Twenty-Seven. Louis Althusser, or the impure purity of the concept /; Chapter Twenty-Eight. Marxism expatriated: Alain Badiou’s turn /; Chapter Twenty-Nine. Revolutionary potential and Walter Benjamin: A postwar reception history /; Chapter Thirty. Critical realism and beyond: Roy Bhaskar’s dialectic /; Chapter Thirty-One. Bourdieu and historical materialism /; Chapter Thirty-Two. Deleuze, marx and revolution: What it means to ‘remain marxist’ /; Chapter Thirty-Three. Jacques Derrida: ‘Crypto-communist’? /; Chapter Thirty-Four. Foucault, reader and critic of Marx /; Chapter Thirty-Five. Beyond the crisis of marxism: Gramsci’s contested legacy /; Chapter Thirty-Six. Falling short of Marx: Habermas /; Chapter Thirty-Seven. Fredric Jameson: An unslaked thirst for totalisation /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1281925772; 9786611925772; 9047423607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jacques Bidet and Stathis Kouvelakis.

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.