| An Anthology of Western Marxism: From Lukács and Gramsci to Socialist-Feminism Contributor(s): Gottlieb, Roger S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195055691 ISBN-13: 9780195055696 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $105.92 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1989 Annotation: This unique anthology brings together readings from the works of the most significant post Leninist Marxist thinkers. The selections include the work of forerunners; figures from the 1930s, post war and New Left thinkers; and contemporary socialist feminists. Gottlieb places the readings in historical and theoretical context, providing a clear and insightful account of the intellectual problems and historical events that gave rise to Western Marxism, and describing how it both anticipated and influenced contemporary radical movements. Each selection is prefaced by a biographical sketch and the book concludes with a bibliography suggesting further research. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Social Science |
| Dewey: 335.4 |
| LCCN: 8-10121 |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 5.54" W x 8.59" (1.13 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This unique anthology brings together readings from the works of the most significant post-Leninist Marxist thinkers. The selections reflect the diversity and high intellectual accomplishment of twentieth-century Marxism and show how these theorists have transformed traditional Marxism's general philosophical orientation, interpretation of historical materialism, models of socialist political practice, and conception of human liberation. The writings reveal the evolution of a sophisticated and democratic Marxism with a theoretical emphasis on class consciousness and subjectivity, a resistance to all forms of domination--including sexism--and a belief in the political power of consciousness-raising. The selections include the work of forerunners Karl Korsch, George Lukács, and Antonio Gramsci; figures from the 1930s, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Wilhelm Reich; post-war and New Left thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Gorz, Herbert Marcuse, and Jürgen Habermas; and contemporary socialist-feminists Sheila Rowbotham, Juliet Mitchell, Barbara Ehrenreich, Heidi Hartmann, and Ann Ferguson. Gottlieb places the readings in historical and theoretical context, providing a clear and insightful account of the intellectual problems and historical events that gave rise to the Western Marxism, and describing how it both anticipated and influenced contemporary radical movements. Each selection is prefaced by a biographical sketch and the book concludes with a bibliography suggesting further research. |