Legacy of Marxism : Contemporary Challenges, Conflicts and Developments

Johnson, Matthew (EDT); Geras, Norman (CON); Femia, Joseph V. (CON); Johnson, Alan (CON); Bowman, Paul (CON)

ISBN 10: 1441143025 / ISBN 13: 9781441143020

Published by Continuum, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Legacy of Marxism : Contemporary Challenges, Conflicts and Developments
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441143025
• ISBN 13: 9781441143020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Marx's influence is evident in a range of often incompatible and contradictory political movements and intellectual approaches. With a number of those movements now discredited by the experience of 'really existing socialism', and the academic left gravitating towards approaches which eschew 'authoritarian', 'essentialist' and 'ethnocentric' elements of orthodox Marxism, the relevance of Marx has been called into question. Featuring chapters by Norman Geras, Joseph Femia, Alan Johnson, Paul Bowman, Ronaldo Munck, Lawrence Wilde, Mark Cowling, Chengyi Peng, Terrell Carver, Oliver Harrison and Stuart Sim, this book is an attempt to examine means by which the left can make real, substantive and positive contributions to contemporary debate. The collection examines such topics as: the meaning of Marxism and pluralism within the left; Marxism's scientific credentials; Žižek, revolution, democracy and cultural studies; the politics of development; the relationship between Marxism and global capitalism; the global justice debate and Marx's rejection of moral discourse; the analysis of crime and criminal justice; Chinese society and constitutional diversity, and the relationship between Marxism and post-Marxism.

About the Author

Matthew Johnson is a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of York, UK. His research focuses on the assessment of cultural practices and the potential contribution of Marxism to the examination of cross-cultural encounters. He is the author of A Theory of Cultural Evaluation (Palgrave, 2012) and articles in Ethnicities, Social Indicators Research and Educational Theory. He is the founding editor of Global Discourse and co-editor of Studies in Marxism.