Sage Handbook of Marxism

The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Marxism both within and without the academy. Marxian frameworks, concepts and categories continue to be narratively relevant to the features and events of contemporary capitalism. Most crucially, an attention to shifting cultural conditions has lead contemporary researchers to re-confront some classical and essential Marxist concepts, as well as elaborating new critical frameworks for the analysis of capitalism today.

The SAGE Handbook of Marxism showcases this cutting-edge of today’s Marxism. It advances the debate with essays that rigorously map and renew the concepts that have provided the groundwork and main currents for Marxist theory, and showcases interventions that set the agenda for Marxist research in the 21st century.  A rigorous and challenging collection of scholarship, this book contains a stunning range of contributions from contemporary academics, writers and theorists from around the world and across disciplines, invaluable to scholars and graduate students alike. 

Part 1: Reworking the critique of political economy

Part 2: Forms of domination, subjects of struggle

Part 3: Political perspectives

Part 4: Philosophical dimensions

Part 5: Land and existence

Part 6: Domains

Part 7: Inquiries and debates

Beverley Skeggs is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. She has published The Media; Issues in Sociology; Feminist Cultural Theory; Formations of Class and Gender; Class, Self, Culture Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety (with Les Moran) and Feminism after Bourdieu (with Lisa Adkins), and with Helen Wood, Reacting to Reality TV: Audience, Performance, Value and Reality TV and Class, along with many journal articles on class and culture.  As an ESRC Professorial Fellow she developed a “sociology of values and value’’ that included projects on the digital economy and prosperity theology, and whilst Director of the Atlantic Fellows Programme, established the ‘Global Economies of Care’ theme at the LSE.

Sara R. Farris is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London. She has published widely on issues of gender, migration, social reproduction and racism/nationalism as well as social and political theory. She is the author of Max Weber’s theory of personality. Individuation, politics and orientalism in the sociology of religion (Brill Academic Publishers 2013) and In the name of women’s rights. The rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press 2017).

Alberto Toscano is Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Visiting Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. Since 2004 he has been a member of the editorial board for the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and is series editor of The Italian List for Seagull Books. He is the author of The Theatre of Production (2006), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2010; 2017, 2nd ed.) and Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle, 2015). A translator of Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Franco Fortini, Furio Jesi and others, Toscano has published widely on critical theory, philosophy, politics and aesthetics.

Svenja Bromberg is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research and teaching are in continental philosophy and social theory with a focus on issues of emancipation, radical democracy, and materialist philosophies. She completed her PhD “Thinking ‘Emancipation’ after Marx - A Conceptual Analysis of Emancipation between Citizenship and Revolution in Marx and Balibar" in 2016. Svenja is a co-editor of Eurotrash (published 2016 at Merve Verlag, Berlin together with Birthe Mühlhoff and Danilo Scholz) and a member on the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism. She recently published ′Marx, an ‘Antiphilosopher’? Or Badiou’s Philosophical Politics of Demarcation′ in: Völker, J. (ed) (2019), Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury Academic.