Contemporary Marxist Theory

This volume brings together works written since the fall of the Berlin Wall by international theorists, showing how today's crisis-ridden global capitalism is making Marxist theory more relevant and necessary than ever. This collection of key texts by prominent and lesser-known thinkers from Latin America, Asia, Africa, America, and Europe showcases an area of scholarly analysis whose impact on academic and popular discourses as well as political action will only grow in the coming years. It reflects today's sense of planetary eco-emergency and a heightened interest in political economy that follows discontentment with the growing inequalities in the West and the unequal nature of development in the "global South."

The work is organized thematically, with sections covering the present historical conjuncture, the contemporary shapes of the social, philosophical concepts, theories of culture, and the status of the political today. This new formulation of the unity and nature of contemporary Marxist theory will be an invaluable resource to any humanities and social science student learning about social and political thought and theory.

Andrew Pendakis is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada and an instructor at Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean.

Nicholas Brown is Associate Professor of English and head of African American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, US. He is the author of Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) and co-editor with Imre Szeman of Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture (2000).

Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation (2004), After Globalization (2011) and Cultural Theory: An Anthology (2010).