Douglas Kellner

Adventures in Marxist Theory

Toward a Reconstruction of Marxism in the Contemporary Era

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Produktbeschreibung

Adventures in Marxist Theory provides an Introduction and overview of Marxian theory to demonstrate its contemporary relevance to social and political theory and a range of disciplines from philosophy to economics in both the humanities and the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781032968261
• ISBN-10: 1032968265
• Artikelnr.: 73775575

Autorenporträt

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA, U.S.A., and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics in the Contemporary Moment (2e, 2020), American Nightmare: Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism (2016) and American Horror Show: Election 2016 and the Ascent of Donald J. Trump (2017), as well as the editor of the multi-volume Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse (2017) and Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (1984).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kevin B. Anderson
1. My Road to Karl Marx and Marxism
2. Karl Marx in Historical Context
3. Friedrich Engels, the Industrial Working Class, and Modernity
Marxism, Morality, and Ideology:7. Marx's Critique of Capital and the
Consumer Society
8. Marxism, Technological Revolution, and the Contemporary Era
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Epilogue: The Limitations and Contributions of Classical Marxism