From Marxism to Post-Marxism?

by Goran Therborn

Overview

A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics

In this pithy and panoramic work—both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the general reader—one of the world's leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, traces the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and anticipates its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788732451
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	05/01/2018
Series:	Radical Thinkers
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	376 KB

About the Author

Göran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is also the former Co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences at Uppsala. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages. Since his retirement from Cambridge in 2010, he has lived at Ljungbyholm, in southeast Sweden.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Our Time and the Age of Marx vii

1 Into the Twenty-first Century: The New Parameters of Global Politics 1

2 Twentieth-Century Marxism and the Dialectics of Modernity 66

3 After Dialectics: Radical Social Theory in the North at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century 111

Editorial Reviews

Impressive … with a finely tuned style of analysis and judgment.”
—Guardian

“One could not hope for a better guide for the arduous journey still to come.”
—Mediations

“Regular readers of the New Left Review will find in this book many of the traits associated with that journal: a broad—sometimes Olympian—sweep; a level-headed combination of radical critique and sober analysis; a dialectical conception of society as a ‘totality,’ irreducible to this or that social-scientific discipline.”
—Ian Cummins, Monash University, Melbourne

From the Publisher

Regular readers of the New Left Review will find in this book many of the traits associated with that journal: a broad—sometimes Olympian—sweep; a level-headed combination of radical critique and sober analysis; a dialectical conception of society as a ‘totality,’ irreducible to this or that social-scientific discipline.

British Journal of Sociology

A finely tuned style of analysis and judgment.

The Guardian

One could not hope for a better guide for the arduous journey still to come.

Mediations