Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory

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Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Callari, A.; Ruccio, D.

Source:

Wesleyan University Press (1996)

URL:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0819562920/rethinkingmar-20

Abstract:

  • These valuable and provocative essays touch upon all the major aspects of Althusser’s multifaceted theoretical and critical work. They offer the reader careful analyses and discussions of these categories and concepts for which Althusser is best known, and which account for Althusser’s continuing relevance to some of the most thorny and intensely debated issues that are being confronted today by political philosophers, social theorists, Marxist intellectuals, cultural critics, and so on. Joseph Buttigieg
  • Althusser’s approach has been one of the most important developments in Marxist theory in the second half of the 20th century. The book provides one of the most comprehensive studies yet of its various dimensions. Given the depth of the various contributions and the wide range of the topics covered, it is indispensable reading for all those interested in contemporary socialist theory. Ernesto Laclau

Contents

Antonio Callari and David F. Ruccio: Introduction: Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory

Part 1: The Role Of The Subject: The Individual and The Masses
  • Antonio Negri: Notes on the Evolution of the Thought of the Later Althusser
    • Grahame Lock: Subject, Interpellation, and Ideology
    • Warren Montag: Beyond Force and Consent: Althusser, Spinoza, Hobbes
    Part 2: Totality, Causality, and Explanation
    • Etienne Balibar: Structural Causality, Overdetermination, and Antagonism
    • Stephen Cullenberg: Althusser and the Decentering of the Marxist Totality
    • Richard Wolff: Althusser and Hegel: Making Marxist Explanations Antiessentialist and Dialectical
    Part 3: Class Analysis and Political Economy
    • Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff: The New Marxian Political Economy and the Contribution of Althusser
    • Bruce Roberts: The Visible and the Measurable: Althusser and the Marxian Theory of Value
    • J. K. Gibson-Graham: Althusser and Capitalism: An Encounter in Contradiction
    • Richard McIntyre: Mode of Production, Social Formation, and Uneven Development, or Is There Capitalism in America?
    Part 4: Politics: Class and Beyond
    • Emmanuel Terray: An Encounter: Althusser and Machiavelli
    • Jonathan Diskin: Rethinking Socialism: What’s in a Name?
    • AnnMarie Wolpe: Schooling as an ISA: Race and Gender in South Africa and Educational Reform
    • Alain Lipietz: Political Ecology and the Workers' Movement: Similarities and Differences
    Part 5: Louis Althusser
    • Gregory Elliott: Analysis Terminated, Analysis Interminable