|    Login    |    Register

Open Marxism: Negative Critique, Subversion and Human Emancipation

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Open Marxism: Negative Critique, Subversion and Human Emancipation

Contributors:

By (Author) Christos Memos

ISBN:

9781350073326

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date:

6th February 2025

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Social and political philosophy

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

216

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Description

What is Open Marxism Against a background of social regression and the ongoing, multifaceted crisis of capitalism, this book examines the Open Marxist tradition and how it develops the work of the early Frankfurt School in ways which significantly advance critical social theory as negative critique of capitalist society. The study situates Open Marxism as the latest critique of mechanistic interpretations of Marx and Marxism, evolutionism and positivism, and naturalized historical and societal processes. It charts the development of the different strands of Open Marxism: from Axelos in the 1950s, and Agnoli in the 1980s, to the work of Clarke, Bonefeld, Gunn and Holloway since the 1990s. The book describes the distinctive features of Open Marxist thought with a focus on its use and understanding of critique as negative and destructive. Negative critical theory is argued to be the only path still open to the possibility of human emancipation, and this volume describes how Open Marxism can be put to use in the work of building radical social praxis, with reference made in particular to the critique of class, political economy and the capitalist state. Explaining how Open Marxisms subversive negation of capitalist social relations and radical critique of capitalisms various perverted social forms this book is a vital contribution to a body of Marxist thought concerned with the contemporary struggle for human emancipation.

Author Bio

Christos Memos is Lecturer of Sociology at Abertay University, Dundee, UK. His research interests include critical social and political theory, political sociology, and economic sociology/critical political economy. He is the author of Castoriadis and Critical Theory: Crisis, Critique and Radical Alternatives (2014).

See all

Other titles from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC