Stathis Kouvelakis

Eustache Kouvélakis

Ambitious and original study of the leading German philosophers, and the genesis of historical materialism.

From Kant to Marx

Philosophy and Revolution

Slavoj Zizek

Lenin reactivado es un llamamiento de algunos de los principales teóricos marxistas del mundo para recuperar la atención que merece la importante figura de Lenin. Como explican los editores del libro, fue Lenin quien hizo del pensamiento de Marx algo explícitamente político, quien lo extendió más allá de los límites de Europa y quien, finalmente, lo puso en práctica. Insisten, además, en la urgente necesidad de releer a Lenin ahora que el capitalismo global parece la única alternativa, el sistema democrático-liberal se ha erigido como forma superior de organización política de la sociedad y resulta más fácil imaginar el fin del mundo que un cambio en el modelo de producción. Si Lenin reestructuró el pensamiento de Marx según las condiciones históricas de 1914, Lenin reactivado insta a una reinterpretación del proyecto revolucionario para el momento presente. En estos ensayos, Lenin se enfrenta cara a cara con los problemas actuales, como la guerra, el imperialismo, el imperativo de construir una intelligentsia asalariada, la necesidad de inclusión de los éxitos de la burguesía y la modernidad en el proyecto social, y el amplio fracaso de la socialdemocracia. Demostrando que la variedad y el partidismo no son mutuamente excluyentes, como se suele decir, este libro plantea la tesis contraria: en la actualidad la verdad sólo puede articularse desde posiciones partidistas.

Hacia una política de la verdad

Lenin reactivado

Jacques Bidet

Çağdaş Marksizm İçin Eleştirel Kılavuz, ABD, Avrupa, Asya ve diğer yerlerde Marksist kuramda yaşanan yeni gelişmelerin geniş kapsamlı ve tam bir panoramasını sunmayı amaçlayan, uluslararası ve disiplinler arası bir kitaptır. Alanın en yetkin isimlerinden otuz bilim insanının çalışmalarına dayanan Kılavuz, tüm beşeri ve toplumsal bilimleri kapsamaktadır. Kılavuz, yetkin bir çağdaş Marksizm rehberi olarak, kapsamı ve derinliğiyle yıllarca aşılamayacak bir çalışma ortaya koymaktadır. Kitaba makaleleriyle katkıda bulunanlar: Tony Andréani, Christopher Bertram, Jacques Bidet, Paul Blackledge, Alex Callinicos, Robert Carter, Vivek Chibber, Thomas Coutrot, François Matheron, Frédérick Guillaume Dufour, Gérard Duménil, Dominique Lévy, Fabio Frosini, Isabelle Garo, Jean-Marie Harribey, Rémy Herrera, Michael Husson, Bob Jessop, Jim Kincaid, Stathis Kouvelakis, Neil Lazarus, Rashmi Varma, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Esther Leslie, Michael Löwy, Roberto Nigro, Gérard Raulet, Jason Smith, Alberto Toscano, André Tosel, Maria Turchetto, Jean-Marie Vincent

Çağdaş Marksizm İçin Eleştirel Kılavuz

Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a “revolution without revolution.” Trapped in a politically ossified society, German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of the revolutionary experience. In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the progressive currents of German society. On the one side were those socialists—among them Moses Hess and the young Friedrich Engels—who sought to discover a principle of harmony in social relations, bypassing the question of revolutionary politics. On the other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture, proletarian hegemony and struggle for democracy, thereby redefining the very notion of politics itself.

Alex Callinicos

Lucia Pradella

In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since the Seattle protests in 1999 and the impact of the global economic and financial crisis in 2007–8. It intersects with the emergence of Post-Marxism since the 1980s represented by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas, Chantal Mouffe, Ranajit Guha and Alain Badiou. This handbook explores the development of Marxism and Post-Marxism, setting them in dialogue against a truly global backdrop. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries between philosophy, economics, politics and history, an international range of expert contributors guide the reader through the main varieties and preoccupations of Marxism and Post-Marxism. Through a series of framing and illustrative essays, readers will explore these traditions, starting from Marx and Engels themselves, through the thinkers of the Second and Third Internationals (Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin and Trotsky, among others), the Tricontinental, and Subaltern and Post-Colonial Studies, to more contemporary figures such as Huey Newton, Fredric Jameson, Judith Butler, Immanuel Wallerstein and Samir Amin. The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism will be of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, cultural studies and theory, sociology, political economics and several areas of political science, including political theory, Marxism, political ideologies and critical theory.

Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism

Sebastian Budgen

DIVAt a time when few people seriously consider alternatives to global capitalism, this work argues that Lenin demonstrates the inseparability of truth and partisanship (the taking of sides), an argument liberal leftists must hear now./div

Toward a Politics of Truth, Sic Vii

Lenin Reloaded

Slavoj Žižek

Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world’s leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume’s editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx’s thought explicitly political, who extended it beyond the confines of Europe, who put it into practice. They contend that a focus on Lenin is urgently needed now, when global capitalism appears to be the only game in town, the liberal-democratic system seems to have been settled on as the optimal political organization of society, and it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than a modest change in the mode of production. Lenin retooled Marx’s thought for specific historical conditions in 1914, and Lenin Reloaded urges a reinvention of the revolutionary project for the present. Such a project would be Leninist in its commitment to action based on truth and its acceptance of the consequences that follow from action. These essays, some of which are appearing in English for the first time, bring Lenin face-to-face with the problems of today, including war, imperialism, the imperative to build an intelligentsia of wage earners, the need to embrace the achievements of bourgeois society and modernity, and the widespread failure of social democracy. Lenin Reloaded demonstrates that truth and partisanship are not mutually exclusive as is often suggested. Quite the opposite—in the present, truth can be articulated only from a thoroughly partisan position. Contributors. Kevin B. Anderson, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Daniel Bensaïd, Sebastian Budgen, Alex Callinicos, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Stathis Kouvelakis, Georges Labica, Sylvain Lazarus, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Lars T. Lih, Domenico Losurdo, Savas Michael-Matsas, Antonio Negri, Alan Shandro, Slavoj Žižek

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