Description
This book offers a unique re-conceptualization of Marxism in bringing together leading scholars across disciplines — history, philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, and literary and culture studies — into one comprehensive corpus. It demonstrates the engaging relevance of the perspectives and techniques of the analyses adopted by Karl Marx, Frederich Engels and contemporary Marxists, and will be immensely useful to scholars and researchers across social sciences as well as general readers interested in Marxism.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Introduction Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Amita Chatterjee 1. Alienation and Freedom: Marx’s Ontology of Social Being Aijaz Ahmad 2. Beyond the Binaries: Notes on Karl Marx’s and Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas on Human Capacities and Alienation Himani Bannerji 3. The Subject as a Philosophical Problem in the Prison Manuscripts of Antonio Gramsci and Nikolai Bukharin Sobhanlal Datta Gupta 4. Marx and Engels’ Geopolitical Economy Radhika Desai 5. What Causes Booms? Alan Freeman 6. Economic Turbulence in Capitalism: Twentieth Century and Beyond Vamsi Vakulabharanam 7. Empire and Nation Today Partha Chatterjee 8. Has Imperalism Become an Obsolete Concept? Prabhat Patnaik 9. Major Historical Problems In The Light Of Marxism — A Note Irfan Habib 10. Marx and the Materialist Tradition in Indian Philosophy Ramkrishna Bhattacharya 11. Revolutionary Movements in a Post-Marxian Era Sumanta Banerjee 12. Class, Community and Identity Politics of the ‘Adivasi’ in Contemporary India Archana Prasad 13. Beyond Armed Struggle Nirmalangshu Mukherji 14. Rosa Luxemburg as Literary Critic and Literary Theorist Subhoranjan Dasgupta 15. The Folk Artist as ‘Traditional Intellectual’ and the Culture of Resistance Malini Bhattacharya. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index
