Plural Temporalities is an ambitious attempt to understand Spinoza’s thought through Althusser’s insights, and in the process to better interrogate Althusser’s own philosophy. Drawing on the fragmenta
How does music relate to time? How does rhythm express our experience of time? Mark Abel addresses these questions through his account of the rise to prominence in Western music of a new way of organi
Few would deny that Karl Marx was among the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, as Christoph Henning shows in this important new work, he was also among the most misinterpreted. Fo
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth reappraisal of the relation between Marx’s economic theory in Capital and Hegel’s Logic by leading Marxian economists and philosophers from around the wo
“Broue enables us to feel that we are actually living through these epoch-making events…. [D]o not miss this magnificent work.”—Robert Brenner, UCLAA magisterial, definitive account of the upheavals i
Mieville (a member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism) presents an account of international law derived from Critical Legal Studies and the Marxist theories of Evgeny Pashukanis. He argu
“The amount of sources the author has studied is staggering . . . the book [has] an encyclopedic value and [is] accessible to all scholars interested in political history.”—Martin Kragh, Stockholm Sch
This book examines the impact of Trotsky’s politics upon those Spanish communists who dissented from the general line’ of Moscow in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. Exploring the ideas of leading P
Focusing on the central concepts of the Prison Notebooks and relating them to the history of modern political ideas, Gramsci's Political Thought demonstrates that Gramsci’s ideas continue to be releva
In these probing analytical essays, John Marot applies Robert Brenner's analysis of pre-capitalist modes of production to early Soviet attempts at revolutionary transformation, concluding that none of
In this far-reaching and insightful work, Vasant Kaiwar analyzes the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies. Kaiwar mobilizes Marxism to
Through a careful textual analysis of the writings of Lenin and his contemporary, Shandro traces the ways in which Lenin’s political practice and theory led him to the philosophical fact’ of hegemony.
The German Left and the Weimar Republic illuminates the history of the political left by presenting original documents on various aspects of socialist and communist activity in Germany. This collectio
Short Listed for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeUnable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ig
In a work centered on Marx's harsh biography of Simon Bolivar, Jose Arico examines why Latin America was apparently 'excluded' from Marx's thought, challenging the allegation that this expressed some
Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeDrawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie-fables
