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'. The Law of Worldwide Value | Eurocentrism | Maldevelopment | Global History | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Introducing Capitalism | 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Future of Money | 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 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Commonwealth | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Left Alternative | 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 The Enigma of Capital http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/241 Review by Ed Rooksby

David Harvey
The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism
Profile Books, London, 2010. 296pp., £14.99 hb
ISBN 9781846683084

]]> 2010-11-18T15:33:00+00:00 Ed Rooksby Karl Polanyi http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/234 Review by Pat Devine

Gareth Dale
Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market
Polity Press, Cambridge 2010. 309pp., £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780745640723

]]> 2010-11-17T18:01:00+00:00 Pat Devine A Marxist Philosophy of Language http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/231 Review by Piotr Stalmaszczyk

Jean-Jacques Lecercle
A Marxist Philosophy of Language
Translated by Gregory Elliott, Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume12, Brill, Leiden, 2006. 236pp., €124.00 hb, ISBN 9004147519; Haymarket Press, Chicago, 2009. 236pp., $28 pb
ISBN 9781608460267

]]> 2010-11-17T17:41:00+00:00 Piotr Stalmaszczyk Marx at the Margins http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/228 Review by Barry Healy

Kevin Anderson
Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2010. 336pp., $22.50 pb
ISBN 9780226019826

]]> 2010-11-06T16:14:00+00:00 Barry Healy Revolutionary Aristotelianism http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/219 Review by Jeffery Nicholas

Kelvin Knight and Paul Blackledge (eds)
Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance, and Utopia
Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart, 2008. 281 pp., €35 pb
ISBN 9783828204423

]]> 2010-11-02T12:34:00+00:00 Jeffery Nicholas Alasdair Macintyre’s Engagement with Marxism http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/222 Review by Gideon Calder

Paul Blackledge and Neil Davidson (eds)
Alasdair Macintyre’s Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings 1953-1974
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2009. lxiv + 443pp., $28 pb; Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2008, £89.10 hb
ISBN 9781608460328

]]> 2010-11-02T12:34:00+00:00 Gideon Calder Communitas | Bíos http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/216 Review by Benoît Dillet

Roberto Esposito
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
Translated by Timothy Campbell, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2009. 192pp., $22.95 pb
ISBN 9780804746465

Roberto Esposito
Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy
Translated by Timothy Campbell, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2008. 304pp., $22.50 pb
ISBN 9780816649891

]]> 2010-11-02T12:32:00+00:00 Benoît Dillet Das Kapital http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/225 Review by Sara R. Farris

Reinhard Marx
Das Kapital: Ein Plädoyer für den Menschen
Knaur Taschenbuch, München, 2010. 336pp., €13,40 pb
ISBN 9783426783603

]]> 2010-11-02T10:06:00+00:00 Sara R. Farris Modernism and Coherence http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/212 Review by Jonathan Dettman

Fabio Akcelrud Durão
Modernism and Coherence: Four Chapters of a Negative Aesthetics
Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2008. 157pp., £25.40 pb
ISBN 9783631569498

]]> 2010-11-01T17:14:00+00:00 Jonathan Dettman An Awareness of What Is Missing http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/209 Review by Tom Angier

Jűrgen Habermas et al.
An Awareness of What Is Missing
Trans. Ciaran Cronin. Polity, Cambridge, 2010. 96pp., £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745647210

]]> 2010-10-18T19:04:00+00:00 Tom Angier Theory of the Subject http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/203 Review by Tom Eyers

Alain Badiou
Theory of the Subject
Translated by Bruno Bosteels, Continuum, London, 2009. 367 pp., £22.99 hb.
ISBN 9780826496737

]]> 2010-10-12T14:05:00+00:00 Tom Eyers Christian Anarchism http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/200 Review by Jamie Pitts

Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel
Imprint Academic, Exeter, 2010
ISBN 9781845401931

]]> 2010-10-09T17:43:00+00:00 Jamie Pitts Thinking Politically http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/197 Review by Jan Kandiyali

Michael Walzer
Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007. 333pp., £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780300143225

]]> 2010-10-09T17:37:00+00:00 Jan Kandiyali The Metaphysics of Capitalism http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/194 Review by Todd S. Mei

Andrea Micocci
The Metaphysics of Capitalism
Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2008. 280pp., £18.95 pb
ISBN 9780739128381

]]> 2010-10-09T17:23:00+00:00 Todd S. Mei Green Capitalism http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/207 Review by Nathan Coombs

James Heartfield
Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance
OpenMute, 2008, 134pp., £7.50 pb
ISBN 9781906496104

]]> 2010-10-08T14:19:00+00:00 Nathan Coombs Edward Carpenter http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/191 Review by Tom Steele

Sheila Rowbotham
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
Verso, London and New York, 2008. 565pp., £24.99/$39.95 hb
ISBN 9781844672950

]]> 2010-08-27T09:23:00+00:00 Tom Steele The Emancipated Spectator http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/188 Review by Jeremy Spencer

Jacques Rancière
The Emancipated Spectator
Translated by Gregory Elliott, Verso, London and New York, 2009. 134pp., £12.99 hb
ISBN 9781844673438

]]> 2010-08-27T08:55:00+00:00 Jeremy Spencer The Structural Crisis of Capital http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/185 Review by Alexander Marshall

Istvan Mészáros
The Structural Crisis of Capital
With a foreword by John Bellamy Foster. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010. 218pp. $26.95
ISBN 9781583672082

]]> 2010-08-26T17:52:00+00:00 Alexander Marshall Criticism of Heaven | Criticism of Religion | Atheism in Christianity http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/182 Review by David McLellan

Roland Boer
Criticism of Heaven: On Marxism and Theology, Vol. 1
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2009. 472pp., $28 pb
ISBN 9781608460311

Roland Boer
Criticism of Religion: On Marxism and Theology, Vol. 2
Brill, Leiden, 2009. 280pp., € 103 hb
ISBN 9789004176461

Ernst Bloch
Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom
Verso, London, 2009. 257pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781844673940

]]> 2010-08-26T17:31:00+00:00 David McLellan Engels Revisited http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/178 Review by Clara Fischer

Janet Sayers, Mary Evans and Nanneke Redclift (eds)
Engels Revisited: Feminist Essays
Routledge Revivals, Abingdon, 2009, £65 hb
ISBN 9780415571395

]]> 2010-08-26T17:06:00+00:00 Clara Fischer