Karl Marx, 9780754677574
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The best writings of the past hundred years on Marx’s approach to analysing society and on his critique of capitalist society are brought together in this volume. The articles enable a better understanding of Marx’s dialectical method and of the theories created with its help, and explain how to put…

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    684 pages

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    28 August 2012

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Summary

Marx’s approach to analyzing society and especially his critique of capitalist society, continues to influence the work of a large number of scholars world-wide. Unfortunately, there are relatively few clear accounts of what this approach is and how to put it to use. And, despite the many attempts to use Marx’s method to study a variety of subjects, there are relatively few that can serve as useful models. In the present volume, the internationally renowned Marxist scholar, Bertell Ollman, an…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780754677574
ISBN-10:0754677575
Series:The International Library of Essays in Classical Sociology
Author:Kevin B. Anderson, Bertell Ollman
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:Routledge
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:684
Release Date:28 August 2012
Weight:1.54kg
Dimensions:244mm x 169mm
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Critics Review

’This collection of articles well illustrates the relevance and depth of Marxian analysis. It is an excellent reference…. Each article stands on its own and provides the reader with superb scholarship and impressive insights.’ Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

About The Author

Kevin B. Anderson

Bertell Ollman is Professor of Politics at New York University. He has published widely on Marxist theory and his books include Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in Capitalist Society (1971, 1976), Marxism: An Uncommon Introduction (1991), Dialectical Investigations (1993) The Dance of the Dialectic: Further Essays on Marx’s Method (2001) and (as editor, with Edward Vernoff) The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses 3 vols (1982, 1984, 1986). His books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese and Korean. In 2001 he was the recipient of the first Charles McCoy Life Achievement Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association. Kevin B. Anderson is Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism: A Critical Study (1995); Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (2005), and the co-author, with Janet Afary, of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution. He is the editor of Marx on Suicide (1999, co-edited with Eric A. Plaut); The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx by Raya Dunayevskaya (2002, co-edited with Peter Hudis); and The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (2004, co-edited with Peter Hudis). His third monograph, single-authored, is Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies (University of Chicago, 2010) for which he received the 2011 Paul Sweezy Book Award from the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association. He has published numerous articles on Marx and Marxism over 25 years. Georg Lukacs, Raya Dunayevskaya, Bertell Ollman, Peter G. Stillman, Hilde Weiss, David McNally, Martha E. Gimenez, Fredy Perlman, Immanuel Wallerstein, David Harvey, Michael Parenti, Franz Neumann, Vincent Navarro, Karl Renner, Nicos Poulantzas, Ralph Miliband, Ernest Mandel, Erich Fromm, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Georg Rusche, Michael D. Yates, Sut Jhally, Bill Livant, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Paul Werner, Fredric Jameson, Ishay LandaE.P. Thompson, Perry Anderson, G.E.M. de Ste Croix, C.L.R. James (J.R. Johnson), Oliver C. Cox, Nancy C.M. Hartsock, Kevin B. Anderson, John Bellamy Foster, Paul Burkett.

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