{"product_id":"marx-and-modernity-key-readings-and-commentary-paperback-softback-9780631225508","title":"Marx and Modernity; Key Readings and Commentary (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631225508","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMarx and Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eKey Readings and Commentary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Antonio (Edited by), Antonio (Author), Ira J. Cohen (Series edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631225508, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e420 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 3.1 cm, 0.621 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Robert J. Antonio's collection on Marx and modernity brings together keyworks of Marx and a variety of contemporary Marxist writings that engage topics such as globalization, information technology, the triumph of neo-liberal market capitalism and global struggles against it. Antonio provides a lucid overview of Karl Marx's life and works, and debates over his legacy that should be extremely useful for contemporary readers.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eDouglas Kellner,\u003c\/b\u003e University of California at Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The essays by Marx are intelligently chosen, the lively commentaries by a host of well-known scholars exhibit the range of his influence, while the outstanding introduction by Robert Antonio illuminates his salience for our time. This is a first-rate collection!\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eStephen Eric Bronner,\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003eGeneral Editor's Foreword.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Marx and Modernity (Robert J. Antonio).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: Marx Readings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Marx's Vision of History: \"Historical Materialism.\"\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Primary Historical Relations or the Basic Aspects of Social Activity (with Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas... (with Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Formation of Classes... (with Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Preface to \u003ci\u003eA Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Labor Rent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Karl Marx (Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Letter to Joseph Bloch (Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: The Juggernaut of Capitalist Modernity: The Revolutionary Bourgeoisie, End of Tradition, and New Social Powers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The So-Called Primitive Accumulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Development of the Division of Labor (with Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Bourgeois and Proletarians: (with Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Cooperation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Cardinal Facts of Capitalist Production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Marx's Labor Theory of Value: The Hidden Social Relationship Beneath Capitalism's Distorted \"Economic\" Surface.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use Value and Value.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. From \u003ci\u003eValue, Price and Profit\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. The General Formula for Capital.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: The First and Second Industrial Revolutions: From Manufacture to Modern Industry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Division of Labor and Manufacture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Machinery and Modern Industry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5: The Downside of Capitalist Growth: Unemployment, Poverty, Speculative Crises, and Environmental Devastation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. General Law of Capitalist Accumulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Increase of Lunacy in Great Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. The Economic Crisis in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Modern Industry and Agriculture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6: Globalization and Colonialism: The New International Division of Labor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Foreign Trade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Repulsion Attraction of Workpeople.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. The Crisis in England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. British Incomes in India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. The Indian Revolt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 7: New Society Rising in the Old: Socially Regulated Capitalism and a Third Industrial Revolution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. The Factory Acts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Fixed Capital and Development of the Productive Forces of Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 8: The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Vicissitudes of History: Counterrevolution, Dictatorship, or Radical Democracy?\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Bourgeois and Proletarians: (with Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Proletarians and Communists: (with Friedrich Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. The Civil War in France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Critique of the Gotha Program.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: Contemporary Readings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 9: After Communism: The Death or Return of Marx?\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. Mourning Marxism (Ronald Aronson, Wayne State University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. Marx Redux (David Harvey, Johns Hopkins University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. The Return of Karl Marx (John Cassidy).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 10: New Economy or Old?: Information Capitalism and the Polarization of Class, Race, and Ethnicity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. The Connected and the Disconnected (Jeremy Rifkin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. The Architect of a New Consensus (Thomas Frank).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods (William Julius Wilson, Harvard University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. Fortress L.A. (Mike Davis).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 11: Neoliberal Globalization: Concentration, Proletarianization, and Immiseration in the New Transitional Order.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. America's Immigration \"Problem\" (Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. \"These Dark Satanic Mills\" (William Greider).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. From the Great Transformation to the Global Free Market (John Gray, London School of Economics).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 12: Emergent Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: Anti-Corporate, Alliance Politics \u0026amp; Direct Actions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. Slouching toward Seattle (Jeff Faux).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. Seattle Diary (Jeff St. Clair).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51. Not Just a Seattle Sequel (Bruce Shapiro).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 13: Rethinking Class and Emancipation after Communism: Avoiding Marxist Determinism and Totalization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. Class Analysis, History, and Emancipation (Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. From Redistribution to Recognition? (Nancy Fraser, New School University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406030106904,"sku":"9780631225508","price":36.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631225508.jpg?v=1784137457","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/marx-and-modernity-key-readings-and-commentary-paperback-softback-9780631225508","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}