Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (Historical Materialism Book Series)
Contributors: Jacques Bidet (Editor); Stathis Kouvelakis (Editor)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers; Brill
Published: January 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 813
ISBN-13: 9789004145986
Subjects: Marxism & Communism; Social Science; Sociology; General; Medieval; Communism; Socialism
Description: "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." -- from book cover.