Category Archives: Karl Marx

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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My favourite academic books of 2024

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year (or late the previous one), and that I read and liked them. Many of the … Continue reading

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Books received – Moyn, Pérez, Herring, Vatulescu, Marx, Foucault

Some books bought recently. Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times; Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle, trans. Andrew Brown; Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson … Continue reading

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Books received – Foucault, Rose, Machold, Hoffman, Miller

Some books sent by editors or publishers – Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité, Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security, Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil and Paul Allen Miller (ed.), Truth in the Late Foucault – and Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism, … Continue reading

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Interviews with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1

I posted about one of these interviews a couple of days ago, but there are a couple more now available: The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, … Continue reading

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The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 – Journal of the History of Ideas blog; Wendy Brown’s foreword

The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 – Journal of the History of Ideas blog Details of the new translation from Princeton University Press are … Continue reading

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Beverley Best, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital – Verso, May 2024

Beverley Best, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital – Verso, May 2024 Why the neglected third volume of Capital holds the key to Marx’s theory of value The Automatic Fetish traces Marx’s analysis of capital, step by step, through … Continue reading

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