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David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works – Verso, February 2026

David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works – Verso, February 2026 The world’s leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx’s masterwork For decades, David Harvey … Continue reading

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Andres Saenz de Sicilia ed. Marx and the Critique of Humanism – Bloomsbury, February 2026

Andres Saenz de Sicilia ed. Marx and the Critique of Humanism – Bloomsbury, February 2026 What is the status of ‘the human’ and ‘humanism’ in Marx’s thought? Does Marx’s critical project rest upon ‘humanist’ commitments? If so, what are these and … Continue reading

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Jean Hyppolite, Studien über Marx und Hegel – ed. and trans. Thomas Ebke, Sabina Hoth and Frank Müller – Meiner Verlag, 2025

Jean Hyppolite, Studien über Marx und Hegel – ed. and trans. Thomas Ebke, Sabina Hoth and Frank Müller – Meiner Verlag, 2025 Thanks to Thomas Ebke for the information about this – he says it’s the first translation of a book … Continue reading

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Hegel 13/13 – Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought series

The seminars at the Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought organised by Bernard Harcourt continue with Hegel 13/13. I was able to go to several of the Marx 13/13 series earlier this year, and the larger events are usually … Continue reading

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Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025

Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025 Books in this series published in paperback with Haymarket 12 months later. Marxist thought was a powerful force in French political and intellectual life … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre and the “Liste Otto” of Prohibited Books in Occupied France

The “Liste Otto” was named after Otto Abetz, German ambassador to France under the Occupation, from August 1940 until the Liberation. The list indicated which books had to be removed from sale, with existing copies destroyed, after the German invasion … Continue reading

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Matteo Polleri and Bernard E. Harcourt: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video)

Matteo Polleri and Bernard E. Harcourt: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video) Academic debate tends to create conflicts among straw figures. That is certainly what has often happened in the many debates over Karl Marx and Michel Foucault. But … Continue reading

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Michael Lazarus, Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx – Stanford University Press, June 2025

Michael Lazarus, Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx – Stanford University Press, June 2025 Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face … Continue reading

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Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique – University of Chicago Press, March 2025

Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique – University of Chicago Press, March 2025 The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, “theory” is often skeptical … Continue reading

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Kevin B. Anderson, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism – Verso, March 2025

Kevin B. Anderson, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism – Verso, March 2025 The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism. In his late writings, Marx went beyond the … Continue reading

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