num_pages: 390
description: This anthology brings together readings from the works of the most significant post-Leninist Marxist thinkers. The selections reflect the diversity &amp; high intellectual accomplishment of 20th-century Marxism &amp; show how these theorists have transformed traditional Marxism's general philosophical orientation, interpretation of historical materialism, models of socialist political practice &amp; conception of human liberation. The writings reveal the evolution of a sophisticated &amp; democratic Marxism with a theoretical emphasis on class consciousness &amp; subjectivity, a resistance to all forms of domination--including sexism--&amp; a belief in the political power of consciousness-raising. The selections include the work of forerunners Karl Korsch, George Lukacs &amp; Antonio Gramsci; figures from the 1930s, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno &amp; Wilhelm Reich; post-war &amp; New Left thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Gorz, Herbert Marcuse &amp; Jurgen Habermas; &amp; contemporary socialist-feminists Sheila Rowbotham, Juliet Mitchell, Barbara Ehrenreich, Heidi Hartmann &amp; Ann Ferguson. Gottlieb places the readings in historical &amp; theoretical context, providing an insightful account of the intellectual problems &amp; historical events that gave rise to the Western Marxism &amp; describing how it both anticipated &amp; influenced contemporary radical movements. Each selection is prefaced by a biographical sketch. The book concludes with a bibliography suggesting further research.
language: English
title: An Anthology of Western Marxism: From Lukacs and Gramsci to Socialist-Feminism
titlecomplete: An Anthology of Western Marxism: From Lukacs and Gramsci to Socialist-Feminism
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Oxford University Press (NY/Oxford)