Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers Second Series, Volumes V, Vi, Vii, VIII

This collection addresses fundamental themes in Marx's social and political thought. It covers key controversies in the analysis of Marx's overall intellectual development, the influence of Hegel, the Marx-Engels relationship, the validity of historical materialism, the significance of class and class struggle, the state and political parties, and reform and revolution. It also addresses Marx's work as historian, anthropologist, student of time and space, social psychologist, social interactionist, and literary scholar. It also covers debates regarding Marx's views on technological determinism: *national identity *nationalism, and cosmopolitanism *cities and citizenship *welfare and human rights *science and ideology *patriarchy and the family *gender and sexual orientations *culture and religion *alienation and fetishism *justice in capitalism and communism. Bob Jessop provides an extended general introduction and also summarizes and interrelates the various articles at the start of each volume. Contributors adopt a wide range of approaches and cover some sixty years of analysis.Jessop, Bob is the author of 'Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers Second Series, Volumes V, Vi, Vii, VIII' with ISBN 9780415193269 and ISBN 0415193265.