Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader

This volume brings together works written by international theorists since the fall of the Berlin Wall, showing how today's crisis-ridden global capitalism is making Marxist theory more relevant and necessary than ever. This collection of key texts by prominent and lesser-known thinkers from Latin America, Asia, Africa, America, and Europe showcases an area of scholarly analysis whose impact on academic and popular discourses as well as political action will only grow in the coming years. It reflects today's sense of planetary eco-emergency and a heightened interest in political economy that follows discontentment with the growing inequalities in the West and the unequal nature of development in the "global South."

The work is organized thematically, with sections covering the present historical conjuncture, the contemporary shapes of the social, philosophical concepts, theories of culture, and the status of the political today. This new formulation of the unity and nature of contemporary Marxist theory will be an invaluable resource to any humanities and social science student learning about social and political thought and theory.

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 the Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (2018).

Jeff Diamanti is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has contributed to a number of works on energy culture and is part of the University of Alberta's Petrocultures and Rice University's Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS).

Nicholas Brown is Associate Professor of English and head of African American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, USA. he is the author of Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature (Princeton, 2005) and co-editor with Imre Szeman of Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)

Josh Robinson is a Lecturer in English Literature at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, and an Affiliated Professor of the University of Haifa, Israel.

Imre Szeman is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Environment, Culture and Society and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.