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In the Spirit of Critique
(December 2013)
Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition
Andrew J. Douglas - Author
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Offers a new perspective on the political significance of the Hegelian dialectical legacy.
Focusing on the critical postures of Hegel, Marx, and a series of twentieth-century intellectuals, including Sartre, Adorno, and C. L. R. James, this book explores what dialectical thinking entails and how such thinking might speak to the lived realities of the contemporary political moment. What is revealed is not a formal method or a gran...(Read More) |
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Being, Time, Bios
(May 2013)
Capitalism and Ontology
A. Kiarina Kordela - Author
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A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.
Although both share a focus on human life as it is inscribed by power, Foucauldian biopolitics and Lacanian psychoanalysis have remained isolated from and even opposed to one another. In Being, Time, Bios, A. Kiarina Kordelaaims to overcome this divide, formulating a historical ontology that draws from Spinoza, Marx, Heidegger, and Sartre to theorize the changed character of &l...(Read More) |
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Marxism and Ethics
(March 2012)
Freedom, Desire, and Revolution
Paul Blackledge - Author
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Accessible introduction to key thinkers of Marxist theory and the debate on the nature of Marxist ethics.
Marxism and Ethics is a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the rich and complex history of Marxist ethical theory as it has evolved over the last century and a half. Paul Blackledge argues that Marx’s ethics of freedom underpin his revolutionary critique of capitalism. Marx’s conception of a...(Read More) |
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Materializing Queer Desire
(August 2009)
Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol
Elisa Glick - Author
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Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.
How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in many respects, contradictory place in the modern world of the early twentieth century? What role has capitalism played in the development of modern gay and lesbian identities? Materializing Queer Desire focuses on the figure of the dandy to explore how a...(Read More) |
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Surplus
(February 2007)
Spinoza, Lacan
A. Kiarina Kordela - Author
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Maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx.
Opposing both popular “neo-Spinozisms” (Deleuze, Negri, Hardt, Israel) and their Lacanian critiques (Zizek and Badiou), Surplus maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the Spinozian-Marxian line of thought. Author A. Kiarina Kordela argues that both sides ignore the ...(Read More) |
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Marxism and National Identity
(January 2006)
Socialism, Nationalism, and National Socialism during the French Fin de Siecle
Robert Stuart - Author
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Provides the first sustained analysis of the collision between Marxism and nationalism in France at the time of the Dreyfus affair.
Post-Marxists argue that nationalism is the black hole into which Marxism has collapsed at today’s “end of history.” Robert Stuart analyzes the origins of this implosion, revealing a shattering collision between Marxist socialism and national identity in France at the close of the ni...(Read More) |
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Performing Marx
(January 2006)
Contemporary Negotiations of a Living Tradition
Bradley J. Macdonald - Author
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Draws upon Marx, Western Marxism, and poststructuralist theory to constructively engage contemporary issues.
Performing Marx looks at what it means to be a Marxist dealing with contemporary political and theoretical developments in the twenty-first century. Drawing upon Marx’s work, Western Marxism, and poststructuralist theory, Bradley J. Macdonald explores how a living tradition of Marx’s ideas can constructivel...(Read More) |
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The Promise of Memory
(September 2005)
History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida
Matthias Fritsch - Author
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Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence.
Rereading Marx through Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promise of Memory attempts to establish a philosophy of liberation. Matthias Fritsch explores how memories of injustice relate to the promises of justice that democratic societies have inherited from the Enlightenment. Focusing on the Marxist promis...(Read More) |
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Post-Marxist Theory
(December 2004)
An Introduction
Philip Goldstein - Author
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An introduction to the philosophical, economic, historical, feminist, and cultural versions of post-Marxist theory.
Poststructuralist Marxism, or post-Marxism, is a theoretical viewpoint that elaborates and revises the work of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. Unlike traditional Marxism, which emphasizes the priority of class struggle and the common humanity of oppressed groups, post-Marxism reveals the sexual, racial, cla...(Read More) |
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Marx and Whitehead
(January 2004)
Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism
Anne Fairchild Pomeroy - Author
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A reading of Marx's critique of capitalism through the lens of process philosophy.
Marx and Whitehead boldly asks us to reconsider capitalism, not merely as an "economic system" but as a fundamentally self-destructive mode that, by its very nature and operation, undermines the cohesive fabric of human existence. Author Anne Fairchild Pomeroy asserts that it is impossible to appreciate fully the impact of Marx's critique o...(Read More) |
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