The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx

There are very few figures in history that have exerted as much and as varied an influence as Karl Marx. His work represents an unrivalled intervention into fields as various as philosophy, journalism, economics, history, politics and cultural criticism. His name is invoked across the political spectrum in connection to revolution and insurrection, social justice and economic transformation.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx is the definitive reference guide to Marx's life and work. Written by an international team of leading Marx scholars, the book offers comprehensive coverage of Marx's: life and contexts; sources, influences and encounters; key writings; major themes and topics; and reception and influence.

The defining feature of this Companion is its attention to the new directions in Marxism that animate the theoretical, scientific, and political sides of Marx's thought. Gender and the growing importance of Marxist-feminism is treated as equally important to clarifying Marx today as traditional and diverse categories of critique such as class, capital, and mode of production. Similarly, this Companion showcases the methodological and political importance of Marxism to environmentalist politics. Finally, the volume examines in detail non-European Marxisms, demonstrating the centrality of Marxist thought to political movements both within and beyond the global north.

This book is the ideal research resource for anyone working on Marx and his ideas today, and as an entry point, if you are approaching Marx's thought for the first time.

Jeff Diamanti is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Marxism: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Materialism and The Critique of Energy (2018).

Andrew Pendakis is Associate Professor of Theory and Rhetoric at Brock University, Canada. He is co-editor of Contemporary Marxism: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2014) and is an editor of the third edition of the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory (forthcoming). His work has been published in journals such as Politics and Culture, Public, and South Atlantic Quarterly.

Imre Szeman is University Research Chair of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is author of Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation (2004) and On Petrocultures (2018), co-author of Popular Culture: A User's Guide (4th ed. 2017) and After Globalization (2011), and co-editor of Energy Humanities: An Anthology (2018) and Fueling Culture (2018).