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.
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, A Selection (Brill/Historical Materialism #294, 2024)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Christina Morina, The Invention of Marxism – How An Idea Changed Everything (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Guest editors Fu Qilin and Peter Beilharz
Contributors: John Grumley, Shuai Shao, Norbert Ebert, Galin Tihanov, Qin Jiayang, David Roberts and Jokubas Salyga
by John Grumley
George Márkus’s Four Forms of Critical Theory was first published in Thesis Eleven no. 1 in 1980. Reading it again meant revisiting a paper that I had first read forty years ago with fresh eyes. I always thought George was a special person and a great philosopher. He supervised my PhD and became my senior colleague after I was appointed to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. We became close friends after his retirement.
This book aims to assist anyone wishing to read and understand volume one of Karl Marx’s Capital. It contains over 100 entries, each of which provides a concise definition of a particular concept and employs a system of cross-referencing to indicate related entries
Special Issue #147 August 2018: On ‘heroic fury’ and questions of method in Antonio Gramsci. Contributors: Elizabeth Humphrys, Ihab Shalbak, Andreas Bieler, Adam David Morton, Philip Roberts, Peter D. Thomas
Cultural Trauma, Morality and Nihilism Articles: Culture trauma, morality and solidarity: The social construction of ‘Holocaust’ and other mass murders Jeffrey C Alexander Abstract: Cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness, marking their memories forever and changing their…
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