Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism - Paperback

by Alex Callinicos (Editor), Stathis Kouvelakis (Editor), Lucia Pradella (Editor)

In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since the Seattle protests in 1999 and the impact of the global economic and financial crisis in 2007-8. It intersects with the emergence of Post-Marxism since the 1980s represented by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas, Chantal Mouffe, Ranajit Guha and Alain Badiou.

This handbook explores the development of Marxism and Post-Marxism, setting them in dialogue against a truly global backdrop. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries between philosophy, economics, politics and history, an international range of expert contributors guide the reader through the main varieties and preoccupations of Marxism and Post-Marxism. Through a series of framing and illustrative essays, readers will explore these traditions, starting from Marx and Engels themselves, through the thinkers of the Second and Third Internationals (Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin and Trotsky, among others), the Tricontinental, and Subaltern and Post-Colonial Studies, to more contemporary figures such as Huey Newton, Fredric Jameson, Judith Butler, Immanuel Wallerstein and Samir Amin.

The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism will be of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, cultural studies and theory, sociology, political economics and several areas of political science, including political theory, Marxism, political ideologies and critical theory.

Author Biography

Alex Callinicos is Emeritus Professor of European Studies at King's College London and was editor of International Socialism from 2009 to 2020. His most recent books are Deciphering Capital (2014), Bonfire of Illusions (2010) and Imperialism and Global Political Economy (2009).

Stathis Kouvelakis taught political theory at King's College London. He has published on Marxism, contemporary critical theory, French and Greek politics. His recent publications include La critique défaite: Emergence et domestication de la Théorie critique (Amsterdam, 2019) and Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx (2nd edition, 2017).

Lucia Pradella is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King's College London. Her publications include Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx's Writings (Routledge, 2015), L'attualità del capitale: Accumulazione e impoverimento nel capitalismo globale (2010) and Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (co-edited, 2015).