Category Archives: Karl Marx

Books received

Posted on September 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books for the Foucault project – a collection of pieces on the first volume of the History of Sexuality, and the only other volume of Les Vies Parallèles series Foucault initiated (the first was the Herculine Barbin memoir); David Harvey’s A … Continue reading →

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In Marx’s Laboratory – Critical Readings of the Grundrisse

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Initially an expensive hardback, but paperback to follow. Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo, Italy, Guido Starosta, National University of Quilmes, Argentina, and Peter D. Thomas, Brunel University, London In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse provides a … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2

Posted on September 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Now out from Verso, David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2. The first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital appeared in 2010. Videos of the lectures on which these books are based are available at http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

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Marx Reloaded film

Posted on July 22, 2013 by stuartelden

The whole thing, with English subtitles – thanks to Marijn Nieuwenhuis for the link.

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2

Posted on June 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Forthcoming in September from Verso, David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2. The first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital appeared in 2010. Videos of the lectures on which these books are based are available at http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

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Karl Marx’s work habits

Posted on April 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Writing advice from Karl Marx – from a piece of satire inspired by Sperber’s new biography. Whatever you make of his ideas, let alone their later proponents, it’s undeniable that Marx was astonishingly prolific: an unfinished project to publish his … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Rosi Bradotti, The Posthuman; Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy (to review); Laurence Hemming’s Heidegger and Marx (which I endorsed); Neve Gordon’s Israel’s Occupation; the launch issue of Territory, Politics, Governance (which has an essay from me in it); … Continue reading →

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Mark Poster (1941-2012)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Mark Poster, intellectual historian of French thought and theorist of media and information, died yesterday. I never met him or heard him speak, but he was important to me through his writings. Perhaps best known for his work on Baudrillard, Sartre, … Continue reading →

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Reading the Classics of Western Philosophy

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

List below and survey here. The queston asked is how many of these have you read. And the whole of these books, not some, not an abbreviated form. I’m claiming 18 of these, and bits, sometimes substantial, of others. Never read any Sidgwick, Moore, … Continue reading →

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Eric Hobsbawm’s Introduction to the 2012 Edition of Marx & Engels ‘The Communist Manifesto’

Posted on October 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have made the text of Eric Hobsbawm’s Introduction to the 2012 Edition of Marx & Engels’s The Communist Manifesto available on their blog.

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