Marx & Philosophy Review of Books http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews.rss The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books publishes online reviews of books in the area of Marxism and philosophy, interpreted broadly as regards both 'Marxism' and 'philosophy'. en Copyright © 2012 Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Copyright © 2012 Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Marx & Philosophy Review of Books http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/assets/templates/marxandphilosophy/images/favicon-mprb.png Marx & Philosophy Review of Books http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews.rss 16 16 The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books publishes online reviews of books in the area of Marxism and philosophy, interpreted broadly as regards both 'Marxism' and 'philosophy'. Review of Georgios Papadopoulos, 'Notes Towards a Critique of Money' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/533 Review by Alex Cistelecan

Georgios Papadopoulos
Notes Towards a Critique of Money
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 2011. 142pp., €15
ISBN 9789072076649

]]> 2012-05-01T12:25:00+00:00 Alex Cistelecan Review of Peter Beilharz, 'Socialism and Modernity' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/530 Review by Ishay Landa

Peter Beilharz
Socialism and Modernity
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2009. 256pp., £15.50 pb
ISBN 9780816660858

]]> 2012-05-01T12:17:00+00:00 Ishay Landa Review of John Tully, 'The Devil’s Milk' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/528 Review by Zach Sell

John Tully
The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2011. 468pp., $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672310

]]> 2012-05-01T12:09:00+00:00 Zach Sell Review of Paul Mattick, 'Business as Usual' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/525 Review by Nicola Livingstone

Paul Mattick
Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism
Reaktion Books, London, 2011. 128pp., £12.95 pb
ISBN 9781861898012

]]> 2012-05-01T11:58:00+00:00 Nicola Livingstone Review of Richard York and Brett Clark, 'The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/522 Review by Peter Stone

Richard York and Brett Clark
The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2011. 223pp., $16.95 / £14.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672167

]]> 2012-05-01T11:49:00+00:00 Peter Stone Review of Steven Hirsch, and Lucien Van Der Walt (eds), 'Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/520 Review by Andrew Lawrence

Steven Hirsch, and Lucien Van Der Walt (eds)
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940: The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution
Brill, Leiden, 2010. 464pp., €109.00 hb
ISBN 9789004188495

]]> 2012-04-26T16:56:00+00:00 Andrew Lawrence Review of Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer, 'Towards a New Manifesto' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/518 Review by Mirko Hall

Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer
Towards a New Manifesto
Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Verso Books, London and New York, 2011. 128pp., £9.99 / $14.95 hb
ISBN 9781844678198

]]> 2012-04-02T21:54:00+00:00 Mirko Hall Review of Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber (eds), 'The Crisis and the Left' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/516 Review by Bill Jefferies

Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber (eds)
The Crisis and the Left: Socialist Register 2012
Merlin Press, London, 2011. 360pp., £15.95 pb
ISBN 9780850366822

]]> 2012-04-02T21:38:00+00:00 Bill Jefferies Review of Andrew Biro (ed.), 'Critical Ecologies' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/513 Review by Adrian Wilding

Andrew Biro (ed.)
Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises
University of Toronto Press, Toronto and London, 2011. 352pp., £22.50 pb
ISBN 9780802095657

]]> 2012-04-02T21:30:00+00:00 Adrian Wilding Review of Steve Brouwer, 'Revolutionary Doctors' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/510 Review by Syd Shall

Steve Brouwer
Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2011. 256pp., $18.95 / £15.00 pb
ISBN 9781583672396

]]> 2012-04-02T21:16:00+00:00 Syd Shall Review of Arthur Bradley, 'Originary Technicity' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/507 Review by Matthijs Krul

Arthur Bradley
Originary Technicity: The Theory of Technology from Marx to Derrida
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2011. 216pp., £50 hb
ISBN 9780230576926

]]> 2012-04-02T21:05:00+00:00 Matthijs Krul Review of McKenzie Wark, 'The Beach beneath the Street' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/504 Review by Anthony Hayes

McKenzie Wark
The Beach beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International
Verso, London and New York, 2011. 224pp., $26.95 / £14.99 hb
ISBN 9781844677207

]]> 2012-03-30T20:54:00+00:00 Anthony Hayes Review of Fredric Jameson, 'Representing Capital' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/497 Review by Simon Choat

Fredric Jameson
Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One
Verso, London and New York, 2011. 168pp., £14.99 hb
ISBN 9781844674541

]]> 2012-03-02T16:54:00+00:00 Simon Choat Review of Bruno Bosteels, 'Badiou and Politics' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/494 Review by Tom Eyers

Bruno Bosteels
Badiou and Politics
Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2011. 472pp., $27.95 / £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780822350767

]]> 2012-03-02T16:46:00+00:00 Tom Eyers Review of Dhruv Jain (ed.), 'Deleuze and Marx' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/491 Review by Jay Conway

Dhruv Jain (ed.)
Deleuze and Marx
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2009. 128pp., £22.99 pb
ISBN 9780748638932

]]> 2012-02-29T15:08:00+00:00 Jay Conway Review of John Gerassi, 'Talking with Sartre' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/488 Review by Carlos Brocatto

John Gerassi
Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010. 336pp. $20/£15 pb
ISBN 9780300159011

]]> 2012-02-29T14:56:00+00:00 Carlos Brocatto Review of David McNally, 'Monsters of the Market' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/485 Review by Mark Worrell

David McNally
Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2011. 272pp., €99.00/$136.00 hb
ISBN 9789004201576

]]> 2012-02-29T14:47:00+00:00 Mark Worrell Review of Andrew Nash, 'The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/482 Review by Christopher Allsobrook

Andrew Nash
The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa
Routledge, London, 2009. 266pp., £80 hb
ISBN 9780415975308

]]> 2012-02-27T15:30:00+00:00 Christopher Allsobrook Review of Giorgio Agamben, 'The Sacrament of Language'; Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron, Alex Murray (eds), 'The Work of Giorgio Agamben' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/501 Review by Richard Fitch

Giorgio Agamben
The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath
Translated by Adam Kotsko. Polity, Cambridge, 2011. 79pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780745649719

Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron, Alex Murray (eds)
The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2011. 214pp., £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780748643653

]]> 2012-02-27T15:25:00+00:00 Richard Fitch Review of Gianni Vattimo, and Santiago Zabala, 'Hermeneutic Communism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/479 Review by Bradley Kaye

Gianni Vattimo, and Santiago Zabala
Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx
Columbia University Press, New York, 2011. 264pp., $27.50 / £19.00 hb
ISBN 9780231158022

]]> 2012-02-27T15:20:00+00:00 Bradley Kaye Review of Samir Amin, 'The Law of Worldwide Value'; Samir Amin, 'Eurocentrism'; Samir Amin, 'Maldevelopment'; Samir Amin, 'Global History'; Samir Amin, 'Ending the Crisis' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/474 Review by Bill Bowring

Samir Amin
The Law of Worldwide Value
Translated by Brian Pearce and Shane Mage, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2nd edition 2010. 144pp., $15.95 / £12.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672341

Samir Amin
Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy. A Critique of Eurocentrism and Culturalism
Translated by Russell Moore and James Membrez, Pambazuka Press, Oxford, and Monthly Review Press, New York, 2nd edition 2009. 290pp, $17.95 / £12.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672075

Samir Amin
Maldevelopment: Anatomy of a Global Failure
Pambazuka Press, Oxford, 2nd edition 2011. 343 pp, £16.95 pb
ISBN 9781906387792

Samir Amin
Global History: A View from the South
Pambazuka Press, Oxford, 2011. 191pp., £14.95 pb
ISBN 9781906387969

Samir Amin
Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism?
Translated by Victoria Bawtree , Pambazuka Press, Oxford, 2010. 208pp, £16.95 pb
ISBN 9781906387785

]]> 2012-01-23T08:53:00+00:00 Bill Bowring Review of Francis Fukuyama, 'The Origins of Political Order' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/467 Review by Peter Stone

Francis Fukuyama
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2011. 585 pp., $35.00/£25.00 hb
ISBN 9780374227340

]]> 2012-01-22T22:07:00+00:00 Peter Stone Review of Bernard Stiegler, 'For a New Critique of Political Economy' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/476 Review by Christian Lotz

Bernard Stiegler
For a New Critique of Political Economy
Polity, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2010. 100pp., £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745648040

]]> 2012-01-22T21:55:00+00:00 Christian Lotz Review of Michael J. Thompson (ed.), 'Georg Lukács Reconsidered' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/465 Review by Tony Mckenna

Michael J. Thompson (ed.)
Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics
Continuum, London and New York, 2011. 272pp., £70 / $130 hb
ISBN 9781441108760

]]> 2012-01-22T21:54:00+00:00 Tony Mckenna Review of Harald Bluhm (ed.), 'Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/463 Review by Michael Maidan

Harald Bluhm (ed.)
Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels: die deutsche Ideologie
Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2010. 232 pp., € 19.80
ISBN 9783050043821

]]> 2012-01-22T21:47:00+00:00 Michael Maidan Review of Sasha Lilley, 'Capital and Its Discontents' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/460 Review by Kate Drabinski

Sasha Lilley
Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult
PM Press, Oakland CA, 2010. 320pp., $20 pb
ISBN 9781604863345

]]> 2012-01-22T21:38:00+00:00 Kate Drabinski Review of Massimo Pigliucci, 'Nonsense on Stilts' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/457 Review by Paula Cerni

Massimo Pigliucci
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2010. 336pp., $20 pb
ISBN 9780226667867

]]> 2012-01-22T21:30:00+00:00 Paula Cerni Review of Alain Badiou, 'Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/451 Review by Piotr Stalmaszczyk

Alain Badiou
Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy
Translated and with an Introduction by Bruno Bosteels. Verso, London and New York, 2011. 192pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781844676941

]]> 2011-12-30T09:29:00+00:00 Piotr Stalmaszczyk Review of Ellen Meiksins Wood, 'Citizens to Lords' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/453 Review by Tony Mckenna

Ellen Meiksins Wood
Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
Verso, London and New York, 2011. 336pp., $26.95 / £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781844677061

]]> 2011-12-29T17:42:00+00:00 Tony Mckenna Review of Daniel E. Lee and Elizabeth J. Lee, 'Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/449 Review by Joseph Spencer

Daniel E. Lee and Elizabeth J. Lee
Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2010. 264pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780521519335

]]> 2011-12-29T17:27:00+00:00 Joseph Spencer Review of Richie Nimmo, 'Ontology and Practice in Marx and Wittgenstein' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/455 Review by David Marjoribanks

Richie Nimmo
Ontology and Practice in Marx and Wittgenstein: A Social-Philosophical Inquiry
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2011. 56pp. £43 pb
ISBN 9783639378672

]]> 2011-12-29T17:20:00+00:00 David Marjoribanks Review of Jennifer Ang Mei Sze, 'Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/446 Review by Rebecca Pitt

Jennifer Ang Mei Sze
Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism
Routledge, New York and Abingdon, 2010. 246pp., £75 hb
ISBN 9780415871402

]]> 2011-12-29T17:18:00+00:00 Rebecca Pitt Review of Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds), 'Red Planets' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/443 Review by Philip Cunliffe

Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds)
Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
Pluto Press, London, 2009. 293 pp., £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780745327303

]]> 2011-12-29T16:57:00+00:00 Philip Cunliffe Review of István Mészáros, 'Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness II' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/439 Review by Tony Mckenna

István Mészáros
Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume II: The Dialectic of Structure and History
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2011. 509pp., $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672358

]]> 2011-11-23T10:49:00+00:00 Tony Mckenna Review of Terry Eagleton, 'Why Marx Was Right' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/437 Review by Matthijs Krul

Terry Eagleton
Why Marx Was Right
Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2011. 272pp., $25.00 / £16.99 hb
ISBN 9780300169430

]]> 2011-11-23T10:38:00+00:00 Matthijs Krul Review of Antonio Negri, 'Art and Multitude' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/434 Review by Ashley Bohrer

Antonio Negri
Art and Multitude
Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011. 224 pp., £12.99/ $14.95
ISBN 9780745649009

]]> 2011-11-23T10:29:00+00:00 Ashley Bohrer Review of Deborah Cook, 'Adorno on Nature' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/431 Review by Paul Sutton

Deborah Cook
Adorno on Nature
Acumen, Durham, 2011. 198pp., £18.99 pb
ISBN 9781844652624

]]> 2011-11-23T10:21:00+00:00 Paul Sutton Review of Antonio Gramsci, 'Prison Notebooks' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/429 Review by Joel Wainwright

Antonio Gramsci
Prison Notebooks: Three Volume Set
edited and translated by Joseph Buttigieg. New York, Columbia University Press, 2011. 2032 pages, $60 pb
ISBN 9780231157551

]]> 2011-11-23T10:07:00+00:00 Joel Wainwright Review of Alain Badiou, 'Second Manifesto for Philosophy' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/426 Review by Simon Choat

Alain Badiou
Second Manifesto for Philosophy
Translated by Louise Burchill, Polity, Cambridge, 2011. 176pp, £9.99pb
ISBN 9780745648620

]]> 2011-11-02T12:25:00+00:00 Simon Choat Review of Sean Sayers, 'Marx and Alienation' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/422 Review by Tony Mckenna

Sean Sayers
Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2011. 216pp., £50 hb
ISBN 9780230276543

]]> 2011-11-02T12:23:00+00:00 Tony Mckenna Review of Jason Myers, 'The Politics of Equality' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/420 Review by Andrew Lawrence

Jason Myers
The Politics of Equality: An Introduction
Zed Books, London and New York, 2010. 176pp., £14.99 / $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781848138438

]]> 2011-11-02T12:21:00+00:00 Andrew Lawrence Review of Perry Anderson, 'The New-Old World' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/417 Review by Alex Marshall

Perry Anderson
The New-Old World
Verso, London, 2011. 561pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781844677214

]]> 2011-11-02T12:20:00+00:00 Alex Marshall Review of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaïd, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek, 'Democracy in What State?' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/413 Review by Salvador Santino Regilme

Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaïd, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek
Democracy in What State?
Translated by William Mccuaig, Columbia University Press, New York, 2010. 144pp., $22.50 / £15.50 hb
ISBN 9780231152983

]]> 2011-11-01T12:24:00+00:00 Salvador Santino Regilme Review of Patrice Maniglier (ed.), 'Le Moment Philosophique Des Années 1960 En France' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/415 Review by Benoît Dillet

Patrice Maniglier (ed.)
Le Moment Philosophique Des Années 1960 En France
Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2011. 589 pp., €35
ISBN 9782130582069

]]> 2011-11-01T12:20:00+00:00 Benoît Dillet Review of Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil, and Piero, 'Introducing Capitalism'; Rupert Woodfin, and Oscar Zarate, 'Introducing Marxism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/410 Review by Julia Smith

Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil, and Piero
Introducing Capitalism
Icon Books, London, 2009. 176pp., £6.99 pb
ISBN 9781848310551

Rupert Woodfin, and Oscar Zarate
Introducing Marxism
Icon Books, London, 2009. 176pp., £6.99 pb
ISBN 9781848310582

]]> 2011-11-01T12:17:00+00:00 Julia Smith Review of Niilo Kauppi, 'Radicalism in French Culture' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/406 Review by David Winters

Niilo Kauppi
Radicalism in French Culture: A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s
Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington VT, 2010. 160pp. £50 hb
ISBN 9781409407836

]]> 2011-09-28T17:01:00+00:00 David Winters Review of S. S. Prawer, 'Karl Marx and World Literature' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/403 Review by Tony Mckenna

S. S. Prawer
Karl Marx and World Literature
Books, London and New York, 2011. 480pp. £16.99 / $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781844677108

]]> 2011-09-28T16:54:00+00:00 Tony Mckenna Review of David Priestland, 'The Red Flag' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/400 Review by Matthew Morgan

David Priestland
The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World
Penguin, London, 2010. 704pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780140295207

]]> 2011-09-28T16:46:00+00:00 Matthew Morgan Review of Arnold Farr, 'Critical Theory and Democratic Vision' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/395 Review by Jeffery Nicholas

Arnold Farr
Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies
Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2009. 196pp., $60 hb
ISBN 9780739119310

]]> 2011-09-28T16:39:00+00:00 Jeffery Nicholas Review of Gail Day, 'Dialectical Passions' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/397 Review by Jeremy Spencer

Gail Day
Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory
Columbia University Press, New York, 2011. 320 pp., £34.50 hb
ISBN 9780231149389

]]> 2011-09-28T16:39:00+00:00 Jeremy Spencer Review of Mary Mellor, 'The Future of Money'; Rod Hill and Tony Myatt, 'The Economics Anti-Textbook' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/392 Review by John Barry

Mary Mellor
The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource
Pluto Press, London, 2010. vii + 197pp. £16.00 pb
ISBN 9780745329949

Rod Hill and Tony Myatt
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Micro-Economics
Zed Books, London, 2010. Ix + 305pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9781552663608

]]> 2011-08-30T15:42:00+00:00 John Barry Review of Slavoj Žižek, 'First as Tragedy, Then as Farce'; Yannis Stavrakakis, 'The Lacanian Left' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/388 Review by Iain MacKenzie

Slavoj Žižek
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Verso, London, 2009. 158pp., £7.99 pb
ISBN 9781844674282

Yannis Stavrakakis
The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007. 328pp., £75 hb
ISBN 9780748619801

]]> 2011-08-30T15:30:00+00:00 Iain MacKenzie Review of John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York, 'The Ecological Rift' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/385 Review by Matthijs Krul

John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York
The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010. 544pp., $17.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672181

]]> 2011-08-30T15:11:00+00:00 Matthijs Krul Review of Judith Suissa, 'Anarchism and Education' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/382 Review by Patrick Ainley

Judith Suissa
Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective
PM Press, Oakland CA, 2010. 164pp., $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781604861143

]]> 2011-08-30T15:01:00+00:00 Patrick Ainley Review of G.A. Cohen, 'On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/380 Review by Peter Stone

G.A. Cohen
On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
Edited by Michael Otsuka, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2011. 288pp., $24.95 / £16.95 pb
ISBN 9780691148717

]]> 2011-08-30T14:53:00+00:00 Peter Stone Review of Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, 'A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/377 Review by Robert Drury King

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization and How to Save It
Pluto Press, London and New York, 2010. 312 pp., £17.50 pb
ISBN 9780745330532

]]> 2011-08-30T14:44:00+00:00 Robert Drury King Review of E.V. Ilyenkov, 'The Ideal in Human Activity' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/371 Review by Alex Levant

E.V. Ilyenkov
The Ideal in Human Activity
Marxist Internet Archive Publications (www.marxists.org), Pacifica CA, 2009. 396pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9780980542875

]]> 2011-07-26T12:47:00+00:00 Alex Levant Review of Alain Badiou, 'Five Lessons on Wagner' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/368 Review by Paul Sutton

Alain Badiou
Five Lessons on Wagner
Translated by Susan Spitzer, Verso, London, 2010. 239pp., £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781844674817

]]> 2011-07-26T12:36:00+00:00 Paul Sutton Review of Jean Anyon, 'Marx and Education' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/366 Review by Patrick Ainley

Jean Anyon
Marx and Education
Routledge, New York and Abingdon, 2011. 117 pp., £18.99
ISBN 9780415803304

]]> 2011-07-26T12:27:00+00:00 Patrick Ainley Review of Michael Löwy, 'The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/363 Review by Alexander Marshall

Michael Löwy
The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development: The Theory of Permanent Revolution
Haymarket Books, Chicago Illinois, 2010. 162pp., $15.00
ISBN 9781608460687

]]> 2011-07-26T12:20:00+00:00 Alexander Marshall Review of Jacques Bidet, and Stathis Kouvelakis (eds.), 'Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/360 Review by Michael Arfken

Jacques Bidet, and Stathis Kouvelakis (eds.)
Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2009. $50 pb
ISBN 9781608460304

]]> 2011-07-26T12:11:00+00:00 Michael Arfken Review of Eric Hobsbawm, 'How to Change the World' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/357 Review by Sean Carleton

Eric Hobsbawm
How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
Little Brown, London, 2011. 480pp., £25 hb
ISBN 9781408702871

]]> 2011-07-26T12:03:00+00:00 Sean Carleton Review of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, 'Commonwealth'; Guglielmo Carchedi, 'Behind the Crisis' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/348 Review by Marco Boffo

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Commonwealth
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009. xiv + 434 pp., £16.95 pb
ISBN 9780674060289

Guglielmo Carchedi
Behind the Crisis: Marx’s Dialects of Value and Knowledge
Brill, Leiden, 2011. xii + 303pp., € 99.00 hb
ISBN 9789004189942

]]> 2011-06-29T15:14:00+00:00 Marco Boffo Review of Jacques Rancière, 'The Politics of Literature' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/344 Review by Devin Zane Shaw

Jacques Rancière
The Politics of Literature
Translated by Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011. 215pp., £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745645315

]]> 2011-06-29T15:03:00+00:00 Devin Zane Shaw Review of Ann Cudd, and Nancy Holmstrom, 'Capitalism, for and Against' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/341 Review by Kate Drabinski

Ann Cudd, and Nancy Holmstrom
Capitalism, for and Against: A Feminist Debate
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. 350pp., £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780521114073

]]> 2011-06-29T14:55:00+00:00 Kate Drabinski Review of Uwe Steiner, 'Walter Benjamin' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/338 Review by Mirko Hall

Uwe Steiner
Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought
Translated by Michael Winkler. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2010. 248 pp., $35/£22.50 hb
ISBN 9780226772219

]]> 2011-06-27T11:11:00+00:00 Mirko Hall Review of Paul Paolucci, 'Marx’s Scientific Dialectics' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/335 Review by Seth Chaiklin

Paul Paolucci
Marx’s Scientific Dialectics: A Methodological Treatise for a New Century
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2009. 328pp., $28 pb
ISBN 9781608460397

]]> 2011-06-24T09:52:00+00:00 Seth Chaiklin Review of Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek (eds), 'The Idea of Communism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/354 Review by Brian Morris

Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek (eds)
The Idea of Communism
Verso, London 2010. 226pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781844674596

]]> 2011-06-22T12:03:00+00:00 Brian Morris Review of Michael A. Lebowitz, 'The Socialist Alternative' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/331 Review by John Gregson

Michael A. Lebowitz
The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010. 160pp., £12.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672143

]]> 2011-06-05T12:00:00+00:00 John Gregson Review of Martha C. Nussbaum, 'Not for Profit' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/328 Review by Rich Daniels

Martha C. Nussbaum
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J., 2010. 178pp., £15.95 hb
ISBN 9780691140643

]]> 2011-06-05T11:50:00+00:00 Rich Daniels Review of Francis Spufford, 'Red Plenty' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/326 Review by Philip Cunliffe

Francis Spufford
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
Faber & Faber, London, 2010. 448pp., £16.99 hb
ISBN 9780571225231

]]> 2011-06-05T11:40:00+00:00 Philip Cunliffe Review of Peter Ives, and Rocco Lacorte (eds.), 'Gramsci, Language, and Translation' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/324 Review by Piotr Stalmaszczyk

Peter Ives, and Rocco Lacorte (eds.)
Gramsci, Language, and Translation
Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2010. 338pp., $34.95 pb
ISBN 9780739118597

]]> 2011-06-05T11:27:00+00:00 Piotr Stalmaszczyk Review of Stephen Shapiro, 'How to Read Marx’s Capital' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/321 Review by Ryan Singh Paul

Stephen Shapiro
How to Read Marx’s Capital
Pluto Press, London and Ann Arbor, 2008. 192pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780745325613

]]> 2011-06-05T10:37:00+00:00 Ryan Singh Paul Review of Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek (eds), 'The Idea of Communism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/317 Review by M.E. Mitchell

Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek (eds)
The Idea of Communism
Verso, London 2010. 226pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781844674596

]]> 2011-04-28T17:47:00+00:00 M.E. Mitchell Review of Sheldon S. Wolin, 'Democracy Incorporated' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/314 Review by Tom Angier

Sheldon S. Wolin
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, new edn, 2010. 384pp., £13.95 pb
ISBN 9780691145891

]]> 2011-04-28T17:32:00+00:00 Tom Angier Review of Alexandra Harris, 'Romantic Moderns' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/311 Review by Tom Steele

Alexandra Harris
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
London, Thames and Hudson, 2010. 320pp., £19.95
ISBN 9780500251713

]]> 2011-04-28T17:14:00+00:00 Tom Steele Review of Andrew Feenberg, 'Between Reason and Experience' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/308 Review by Christian Lotz

Andrew Feenberg
Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity
The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2010. 257pp., $22 pb
ISBN 9780262514255

]]> 2011-04-28T17:02:00+00:00 Christian Lotz Review of Brian Feltham (ed.), 'Justice, Equality and Constructivism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/305 Review by James Hall

Brian Feltham (ed.)
Justice, Equality and Constructivism: Essays on G.A. Cohen’s Rescuing Justice and Equality
Oxford and Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 128 pp., £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781405191753

]]> 2011-04-28T17:01:00+00:00 James Hall Review of Fredric Jameson, 'The Hegel Variations' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/300 Review by Paul Sutton

Fredric Jameson
The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit
Verso, London, 2010. 136pp., £14.99 hb
ISBN 9781844676163

]]> 2011-04-05T16:22:00+00:00 Paul Sutton Review of Denis Mäder, 'Fortschritt Bei Marx' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/302 Review by Ishay Landa

Denis Mäder
Fortschritt Bei Marx
Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2010. 367pp., €49.80
ISBN 9783050049168

]]> 2011-04-04T16:32:00+00:00 Ishay Landa Review of Fabio Vighi, 'On Žižek’s Dialectics' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/297 Review by Michael Calderbank

Fabio Vighi
On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation
Continuum, London and New York, 2010. 208pp., £65 hb
ISBN 9780826464439

]]> 2011-04-04T15:35:00+00:00 Michael Calderbank Review of Thanos Zartaloudis, 'Giorgio Agamben' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/294 Review by Jonathan Short

Thanos Zartaloudis
Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism
Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2010. 336pp., £80 hb
ISBN 9780415440226

]]> 2011-04-04T15:27:00+00:00 Jonathan Short Review of John Holloway, 'Crack Capitalism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/291 Review by Christian Garland

John Holloway
Crack Capitalism
Pluto Press, London, 2010. 320pp., £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745330099

]]> 2011-04-04T15:17:00+00:00 Christian Garland Review of István Mészáros, 'Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/287 Review by A.F. Pomeroy

István Mészáros
Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume I: The Social Determination of Method
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010. 432pp., $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672044

]]> 2011-02-27T17:03:00+00:00 A.F. Pomeroy Review of Simon Choat, 'Marx Through Poststructuralism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/284 Review by Carlo Salzani

Simon Choat
Marx Through Poststructuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze
Continuum, London, 2010. 207pp., £65.00 hb
ISBN 9780826442758

]]> 2011-02-27T16:21:00+00:00 Carlo Salzani Review of Antonio A. Santucci, 'Antonio Gramsci' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/281 Review by Dylan Kerrigan

Antonio A. Santucci
Antonio Gramsci
Translated by Graziella DiMauro with Salvatore Engel-DiMauro. Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010. 208 pp. £12.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672105

]]> 2011-02-27T16:11:00+00:00 Dylan Kerrigan Review of Ian Parker, 'Lacanian Psychoanalysis' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/278 Review by Tom Eyers

Ian Parker
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity
Routledge, London and New York, 2011. 248pp., £20.99 pb
ISBN 9780415455428

]]> 2011-02-27T15:59:00+00:00 Tom Eyers Review of Joseph Dietzgen, 'Human Brain Work' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/276 Review by Bruce Robinson

Joseph Dietzgen
The Nature of Human Brain Work: An Introduction to Dialectics
PM Press, Oakland, 2010. 142pp., £9.50 pb
ISBN 9781604860368

]]> 2011-02-27T15:44:00+00:00 Bruce Robinson Review of Alain Badiou, 'The Communist Hypothesis' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/273 Review by David Morgan

Alain Badiou
The Communist Hypothesis
Translated by David Macey and Steve Corcoran, Verso, London, 2010. 279 pp., £12.99 hb
ISBN 9781844676002

]]> 2011-01-30T20:34:00+00:00 David Morgan Review of Göran Therborn, 'From Marxism to Post-Marxism?' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/270 Review by Jérôme Melançon

Göran Therborn
From Marxism to Post-Marxism?
Verso, London, 2010. 194 pp., £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781844676309

]]> 2011-01-30T17:55:00+00:00 Jérôme Melançon Review of Alison Assiter, 'Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/267 Review by Eric Weislogel

Alison Assiter
Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory: Unfinished Selves
Continuum, London, 2009. 165pp., £65 hb
ISBN 9780826498311

]]> 2011-01-30T17:46:00+00:00 Eric Weislogel Review of Benjamin Noys, 'The Persistence of the Negative' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/264 Review by Tom Bunyard

Benjamin Noys
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2010, 212pp., £60 hb
ISBN 9780748638635

]]> 2011-01-30T17:38:00+00:00 Tom Bunyard Review of Paul Thomas, 'Marxism and Scientific Socialism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/261 Review by Jamie Melrose

Paul Thomas
Marxism and Scientific Socialism: From Engels to Althusser
Routledge, London, 2008. 192pp., £75 hb
ISBN 9780415775656

]]> 2011-01-30T17:25:00+00:00 Jamie Melrose Review of Fredric Jameson, 'Valences of the Dialectic' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/258 Review by Robert T. Tally Jr

Fredric Jameson
Valences of the Dialectic
Verso Books, London, 2009. 625pp. £29.99 hb
ISBN 9781859848777

]]> 2011-01-04T15:54:00+00:00 Robert T. Tally Jr Review of Alexander Anievas (ed.), 'Marxism and World Politics' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/255 Review by Paul Blackledge

Alexander Anievas (ed.)
Marxism and World Politics
Routledge, London, 2010, £25.99 pb
ISBN 9780415478038

]]> 2011-01-04T15:38:00+00:00 Paul Blackledge Review of Riccardo Bellofiore and Roberto Fineschi (eds), 'Re-reading Marx' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/252 Review by Nick Gray

Riccardo Bellofiore and Roberto Fineschi (eds)
Re-reading Marx: New Perspectives after the Critical Edition
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009. 239pp., £65.00 hb
ISBN 9780230202115

]]> 2011-01-04T15:27:00+00:00 Nick Gray Review of Clark Everling, 'Dialectics of Class Struggle' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/250 Review by Jelle Versieren

Clark Everling
Dialectics of Class Struggle in the Global Economy
Routledge, London, 2009. 208pp., £90 hb
ISBN 9780415778107

]]> 2011-01-04T15:11:00+00:00 Jelle Versieren Review of Terry Eagleton, 'The task of the critic' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/248 Review by Hristos Verikukis

Terry Eagleton
The task of the critic: Terry Eagleton in dialogue
Edited by Matthew Beaumont. Verso, London, 2009. 368pp., £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781844673391

]]> 2011-01-03T10:33:00+00:00 Hristos Verikukis Review of Samir Amin, 'Eurocentrism' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/244 Review by Joshua Moufawad-Paul

Samir Amin
Eurocentrism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2nd edition, 2009. 282pp., $17.95 pb
ISBN 9781583672075

]]> 2010-11-22T17:43:00+00:00 Joshua Moufawad-Paul Review of Roberto Mangabeira Unger, 'The Left Alternative'; Michael Bérubé, 'The Left at War' http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/238 Review by Michael B. Mathias

Roberto Mangabeira Unger
The Left Alternative
Verso, London, 2009. 197pp., £7.99 pb
ISBN 9781844673704

Michael Bérubé
The Left at War
New York University Press, New York, 2009. 341pp., $29.95 hb
ISBN 9780814799840

]]> 2010-11-18T15:34:00+00:00 Michael B. Mathias