Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism

In this comprehensive guide to intellectual and historical contexts, disciplinary fields and leading thinkers, expert commentators span all the humanities and social sciences, with a distinct emphasis on philosophy. They cover such contextual issues as the crises of Marxism and the transformation of capitalism, Marxism as developed in Marxist-Leninism to France and Italy at the end of the twentieth century, Anglo-Saxon Marxism, and the new Marxist economics. Configurations of Marxist thought include the analytical, the Frankfurt and Budapest schools, ecological Marxism, market socialism, postcolonial studies, class analysis, state theory, theories of racism, and the relationship between Marxism and language, and leading figures examined include Adorno, Badiou, Bhaskar, Bourdieu, Derrida, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, Lefebvre, Kozo Uno and Raymond Williams. This is an essential reference. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jacques Bidet is Professor at the University of Paris-X, holding the chair of Political Philosophy and Theories of Society. His other publications include Theorie de la modernite (1990), John Rawls et la theorie de la justice (1995), Theorie generale, Theorie du droit, de l’economie et de la politique (1999) and Explication et reconstruction du 'Capital' (2004). His Exploring Marx's 'Capital' was published in the HM Book Series in 2007.Stathis Kouvelakis teaches Political Theory and Philosophy at King's College London. He is the author of Philosophy and Revolution. From Kant to Marx (London, 2003) and the co-editor, with Slavoj Zizek and Sebastian Budgen, of Lenin Reloaded. Towards a Politics of Truth (Durham, 2007).