Bøger i Historical Materialism Book serien

In Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx's theory of social justice in his early and later writings.

Since 2010 Greece entered a period of austerity, protest and political crisis. The contributions in this volume deal with questions regarding capitalist crisis, debt, European integration, political crisis, new forms of protest, the rise of neo-fascist parties and left-wing strategy today.

Examining the role of speculation in philosophy, art and finance, Speculation as a Mode of Production is an essential, widescreen theorization of capital's drive to self-expansion, and an urgent corrective to the narrow and one-sided periodisations to which it is most commonly subjected.

Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is a major text of post-war Marxist theory with ongoing relevance to current debates about value, abstraction, and domination.

In Rescuing Autonomy from Kant, James Furner argues that Marxism's relation to Kant's ethics is not one of irrelevance, complementarity or incompatibility, but critique: the value of autonomy can be grounded by appeal to an antinomy in capitalism's basic structure.

The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983 and involving over 800 scholars worldwide. This first English-language selection introduces readers to a broad sample from the project's nine published volumes so far.

The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, gives us the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Vivid case-studies of individual leaders and Soviet intellectuals paint an indispensable self-portrait of Bolshevism and its grand narratives.

In this powerful, wide-ranging collection written in the new millennium, John Roberts presents an overarching theoretical assessment of the key issues facing post-conceptual art and emancipatory practice. What constitutes the 'new' in art? Can art escape its commodity-form? How can audiences shape the social impact of art?

The six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against the world-changing events of 1917, and accompany Brill's publication of Cathy Porter's Larisa Reisner: A Biography, published as volume 266 in the Historical Materialism book series.

In the 1970s, several members of the DDR opposition began to investigate the limits to unrestrained economic growth. The result of their work was three distinctive eco-utopias with an astonishing relevance to contemporary debates. This volume presents the first detailed account of them for an English-language readership.