Book Review: Why Should We Still Read Max Weber?
Michael Symonds, Why Should We Still Read Max Weber? (Routledge, 2027)
Reviewed by Harry Blatterer
Book Review: Nationalism as a Way of Life
Siniša Malešević, Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Reviewed by John A. Hall
Book Review: The Years of Theory – Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory. Postwar French Thought to the Present (Verso 2024)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Who was Fredric Jameson? What were the years of Theory? Jameson died last year, leaving behind a thick and rich legacy of, well, Theory. Already in advance, the title of this book of lectures seems to anticipate the possibility that Theory may also be terminal. Has the moment of Theory then passed?
Book Review: Revolutions. A New History
Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History (Verso, 2025)
Reviewed by Archie Brown
Donald Sassoon, a skilled and erudite comparative historian, has turned his hand to the study of revolutions. The result is a stimulating and highly readable book, richly endowed with provocative judgements and witty asides.
Review essay: “Well grubbed, old mole!”: On Karl Marx in America by Andrew Hartman
By Gregory Jones-Katz
With Karl Marx in America[i], Andrew Hartman burrows and raises molehills, creating extensive networks of historical and political ideas for our intellectual nourishment. Throughout its hefty 500 pages and nine chapters, Hartman adroitly historicizes a wide range of American readers’ uses of Marx since the mid-nineteenth century.
Book Review: Marxist Aesthetics in Eastern Europe
Fu Qilin, Marxist Aesthetics in Eastern Europe (Chinese Science Publishing, 2025)
Reviewed by David Roberts
Book Review: Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation
Peter Thomas, Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Reviewed by Alastair Davidson
Book Review: A Socialisme ou Barbarie Anthology
Cornelius Castoriadis et al., A Socialisme ou Barbarie Anthology: Autonomy, Critique, and Revolution in the Age of Bureaucratic Capitalism, translated and edited by David Ames Curtis (Eris, 2018)
Reviewed by Chamsy el-Ojeili
Book Review: No, it Can’t! Reading Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy, Stranger Cities. Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, A Profile of Portal Modernity (Brill, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: The Power and Powerlessness of Component Analysis
Anthony Elliott, Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age (Polity Press, 2024)
Reviewed by James Smithies
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