Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert by Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Visit Amazon's Clayton

By Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Visit Amazon's Clayton Pierce Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Clayton Pierce,

This assortment assembles a few of Herbert Marcuse’s most crucial paintings and provides for the 1st time his responses to and improvement of vintage Marxist ways to revolution and utopia, in addition to his personal theoretical and political perspectives.

This 6th and ultimate quantity of Marcuse's accumulated papers exhibits Marcuse’s rejection of the present twentieth-century Marxist concept and socialist perform - which he observed as insufficient for a radical critique of Western and Soviet forms - and the advance of his progressive inspiration in the direction of a critique of the shopper society. Marcuse's later philosophical views on know-how, ecology, and human emancipation sat at odds with some of the vintage tenets of Marx’s materialist dialectic which put the operating category because the relevant agent of switch in capitalist societies. because the fabric from this quantity exhibits, Marcuse used to be not just a theorist of Marxist idea and perform within the 20th century, but additionally proves to be a necessary philosopher for figuring out the neoliberal part of capitalism and resistance within the twenty-first century.

A accomplished creation by means of Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce areas Marcuse’s philosophy within the context of his engagement with the most currents of 20th century philosophy whereas additionally supplying very important analyses of his anticipatory theorization of capitalist improvement via a neoliberal restructuring of society. the amount concludes with an afterword via Peter Marcuse.

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French Socialism and Sexual Difference: Women and the New by S. Foley

By S. Foley

This examine explores the meanings ascribed to sexual ameliorations inside early nineteenth century French socialism, and the consequences of such definitions for girls. via a close exam of the theories of Charles Fourier, the Saint-Simonians and plant life Tristan, it illustrates how gender differences supplied a device of social feedback and a picture of the idealized destiny. Love and sympathy have been assigned because the traits of "the feminine", therefore justifying women's social participation along males. moreover, those features gave "the female" a symbolic importance within the venture of ethical and social renewal, evoking the specified global of concord and co-operation. instead of rejecting the binary contrast among masculine and female which used to be gaining new value of their society, hence, socialists challenged the worth it ascribed to every intercourse and the jobs it legitimated. despite the fact that, the accentuation of intercourse variations additionally circumscribed the chances for lady "liberty" and self-definition of their personal society, and within the excellent worlds they envisaged.

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Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

By Karl Marx

Significantly and textually updated, this new version of the vintage translation (Samuel Moore, 1888) positive factors an creation and notes via the eminent Marx pupil David McLellan, prefaces written by means of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels next to the unique 1848 booklet, and corrections of error made in previous types. considered as probably the most influential political tracts ever written, The Communist Manifesto serves because the starting place rfile of the Marxist circulate. This precis of the Marxist imaginative and prescient is an incisive account of the world-view Marx and Engels had advanced in the course of their anxious highbrow and political collaboration of the last few years.

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Mao's Forgotten Successor: The Political Career of Hua by Robert Weatherley

By Robert Weatherley

Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao in 1976, rising virtually out of nowhere following an unexceptional occupation in Shanxi and Hunan. in precisely over years, Hua have been eclipsed by means of Deng Xiaoping, a extra politically sensible, revolutionary and charismatic determine. If Hua's upward thrust to strength used to be striking, then q4 used to be much more so.

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Making Sense of Marx by Jon Elster

By Jon Elster

A scientific, severe exam of Karl Marx's social theories and their philosophical presuppositions. via huge discussions of the texts Jon Elster bargains a balanced and specified account of Marx's perspectives that's without delay sympathetic, undogmatic and rigorous. both importantly he attempts to evaluate 'what resides and what's useless within the philosophy of Marx', utilizing the analytical assets of latest social technology and philosophy. Professor Elster insists at the desire for microfoundations in social technology and offers a scientific feedback of functionalism and teleological pondering in Marx. He argues that Marx's financial theories are principally flawed or inappropriate; ancient materialism is visible to have basically constrained plausibility (and isn't even always utilized via Marx); Marx's longest lasting achievements are the feedback of capitalism by way of alienation and exploitation and the speculation of sophistication fight, politics and beliefs less than capitalism, even though in those parts too Elster enters mammoth skills. The ebook should still take its position because the so much accomplished and complicated smooth learn to be had.

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Reading Capital by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Jacques

By Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Jacques Ranciere, Pierre Macherey

A landmark of French inspiration, and an highbrow revolution opposed to dominant interpretations of Marx.Reading Capital is an try and topple the full edifice of Western Marxism, and rebuild it from the unique foundations. constructing a rigorous software of ‘symptomatic studying’ that cuts throughout the silences and lacunae of Capital to bare its philosophical center, Louis Althusser translates Marx’s structural research of construction as a innovative break—the foundation of a very new technological know-how. construction on a sequence of Althussers’ conceptual options, together with ‘'overdetermination’ and ‘social formation,’ ?tienne Balibar explores the old and structural points of construction as Marx understood them, scrutinizing a few of the so much basic issues in Capital, as if for the 1st time.

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