The Cambridge Companion to MarxTerrell Carver Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important his work really is for us now. An important dimension of this volume is to place Marx's writings in their historical context and to separate what he actually said from what others (in particular, Engels) interpreted him as saying. Informed by current debates and new perspectives, the volume provides a comprehensive coverage of all the major areas to which Marx made significant contributions. |
Contents
Reading Marx Life and works | 1 |
Critical reception Marx then and now | 23 |
Social and political theory Class state revolution | 55 |
Science Realism criticism history | 106 |
History Critique and irony | 124 |
Moral philosophy The critique of capitalism and the problem of ideology | 143 |
Political philosophy Marx and radical democracy | 168 |
Reproduction and the materialist conception of history A feminist critique | 196 |
Gender Biology nature and capitalism | 222 |
Aesthetics Liberating the senses | 246 |
Logic Dialectic and contradiction | 275 |
History of philosophy The metaphysics of substance in Marx | 296 |
Religion Illusions and liberation | 320 |
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