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 Jurgen 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.

About the Author

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 defaite: Emergence et domestication de la Theorie 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'attualita del capitale: Accumulazione e impoverimento nel capitalismo globale (2010) and Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (co-edited, 2015).

Reviews

"This Handbook is an outstanding contribution to Marxist scholarship. The chapters dealing with the various authors or issues are all of exceptional intellectual and political quality. Anyone interested in the Marxist tradition and on the present debates cannot miss reading this remarkable collection."

Michael Loewy, Emeritus Research Director National Center for Scientific Research, Paris

"The analysis of Marxism alongside the many currents of critical thought that have engaged with it over the years could not be more urgent. This splendid volume offers both the perfect introduction to the topic, and nuanced philosophical analyses of the relationship between Marxism and post-Marxist critiques of injustice based on gender, race and ethnicity. This is an intelligent and erudite book that shows us not only how to read Marx but also how to place the struggle against capitalism at the heart of a historically-sensitive, philosophically rigorous, genuinely intersectional, and decolonised, collective enterprise."

Lea Ypi, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science

"The internationalization of Marxism, as is also well highlighted by this Handbook, has brought with it considerable expectations, nurtured by a vast plethora of subjects, in both theoretical and political contexts ... This volume presents itself as a map that marks the points where it is advisable to stop in order to confront the contemporary articulation of capital and its implications for different areas, of both political economy and philosophical thought and of life."

Emanuale Lepore, MicroMega

"The Handbook is praise-worthy for plenty of reasons. It presents a great version of the Who's Who of Marxism. It is an interdisciplinary undertaking. It is also an international project: it contains a wide range of scholars, from within Europe and outside. It shows that many good ideas have come from the Global South, some of which, as Prashad eloquently shows, connect the past traditions of 'primitive socialism' to contemporary people's struggles. The Handbook also gives space to new versions of Marxism. ... The Handbook is an excellent intellectual map of global Marxism. If you wish to quickly have a sound idea about how Marxists think about the world, this Handbook is handy."

Raju Das, e-International Relations

Book Information
ISBN 9780367653743
Author Alex Callinicos
Format Paperback
Page Count 582
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 880g