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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Bidet and Kouvelakis -- Chapter One. A key to the critical companion to contemporary marxism / Jacques Bidet -- Chapter Two. The crises of marxism and the transformation of capitalism / Stathis Kouvelakis -- Chapter Three. The development of marxism: From the end of marxism-leninism to a thousand marxisms – France-Italy, 1975–2005 / André Tosel -- Chapter Four. Whither anglo-saxon marxism? / Alex Callinicos -- Chapter Five. Old theories and new capitalism: The actuality of a marxist economics / Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy -- Chapter Six. Analytical marxism / Christopher Bertram -- Chapter Seven. The Frankfurt school’s critical theory: From neo-marxism to ‘post-marxism’ / Gérard Raulet -- Chapter Eight. The late Lukács and the Budapest school / André Tosel -- Chapter Nine. The regulation school: A one-way ticket from Marx to social liberalism? / Michel Husson -- Chapter Ten. Ecological marxism or marxian political ecology? / Jean-Marie Harribey -- Chapter Eleven. Theories of the capitalist world-system / Rémy Herrera -- Chapter Twelve. Liberation-theology marxism / Michael Löwy -- Chapter Thirteen. Market socialism: Problems and models / Tony Andréani -- Chapter Fourteen. The american radicals: A subversive current at the heart of the empire / Thomas Coutrot -- Chapter Fifteen. Political marxism / Paul Blackledge -- Chapter Sixteen. From ‘mass worker’ to ‘empire’: The disconcerting trajectory of italian operaismo / Maria Turchetto -- Chapter Seventeen. Marxism and postcolonial studies / Neil Lazarus and Rashmi Varma -- Chapter Eighteen. British marxist history / Paul Blackledge -- Chapter Nineteen. Developments in marxist class analysis / Vivek Chibber -- Chapter Twenty. New interpretations of capital / Jacques Bidet -- Chapter Twenty-One. The new dialectic / Jim Kincaid -- Chapter Twenty-Two. States, state power, and state theory / Bob Jessop -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Marxism and theories of racism / Robert Carter -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Historical materialism and international relations / Frédérick Guillaume Dufour -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Marxism and language / Jean-Jacques Lecercle -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Adorno and Marx / Jean-Marie Vincent -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. Louis Althusser, or the impure purity of the concept / François Matheron -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. Marxism expatriated: Alain Badiou’s turn / Alberto Toscano -- Chapter Twenty-Nine. Revolutionary potential and Walter Benjamin: A postwar reception history / Esther Leslie -- Chapter Thirty. Critical realism and beyond: Roy Bhaskar’s dialectic / Alex Callinicos -- Chapter Thirty-One. Bourdieu and historical materialism / Jacques Bidet -- Chapter Thirty-Two. Deleuze, marx and revolution: What it means to ‘remain marxist’ / Isabelle Garo -- Chapter Thirty-Three. Jacques Derrida: ‘Crypto-communist’? / Jason Smith -- Chapter Thirty-Four. Foucault, reader and critic of Marx / Roberto Nigro -- Chapter Thirty-Five. Beyond the crisis of marxism: Gramsci’s contested legacy / Fabio Frosini -- Chapter Thirty-Six. Falling short of Marx: Habermas / Jacques Bidet -- Chapter Thirty-Seven. Fredric Jameson: An unslaked thirst for totalisation / Stathis Kouvelakis.