In the brilliant world of Vienna at the turn of the century four men -- Karl Renner, Otto Bauer, Max Adler, and Friedrich Adler -- sought to develop political and economic resolutions to the racial an
As a contribution to the Critique of Historical Reason begun by Wilhelm Dilthey in the late 19th century, Blum (history, U. of Louisville, Kentucky) describes the four foundational historical logics h
Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror posed for the individual by what his contemporary Max Weber termed "the iron cage" of society. In this
Part of a two-volume set, this first volume aims to bring a wide-ranging and representative selection of the works of Austro-Marxism’s leading thinkers, including Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, Rudolf Hilfe
Though largely unknown to the English-speaking world, the Austro-Marxist school of thinkers offered a number of essential theoretical insights into the issues faced by the burgeoning socialist movemen
Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity documents the theoretical and political legacy of one of Europe's most influential intellectual currents in the first half of the twentieth century.
During the first half of the twentieth century, Austrian socialist thinkers—chief among them Otto Bauer, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Renner, and Max Adler—emerged from and helped transform Aus