Description
David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey’s writings over a long period of time.
Harvey’s writings have exerted huge influence within the social sciences and the humanities. In addition, his work now commands a global readership among Left political activists and those interested in current world affairs. Harvey’s central preoccupation is capitalism and the impacts of its growth-obsessed, contradictory dynamics. His name is synonymous with key analytical concepts like ‘the spatial fix’ and ‘accumulation by dispossession’. This critical introduction to his thought is an essential companion for both new and more experienced readers. The critique of capitalism is one of the most important undertakings of our time, and Harvey’s work offers powerful tools to help us see why a ‘softer’ capitalism is insufficient and a post-capitalist future is necessary.
This book is an important resource for scholars and graduate students in geography, politics and many other disciplines across the social sciences and humanities.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. David Harvey: geographer, Marxist, and public intellectual
Chapter 3. Between philosophy and political practice: the power of critical theory
Chapter 4. Contradiction, perpetual change, and crisis: the DNA of capitalism
Chapter 5. The restless and uneven geographies of capitalism
Chapter 6. Capital unbound: the commodification of everything
Chapter 7. From structure to agency: the tangled human geographies of difference, inequality, solidarity, and protest
Chapter 8. What is to be done? Towards a more just geography for a feasible future
Chapter 9. Marxism within and beyond the academy: communicating critical thought in a ‘post-public’ era
Chapter 10. Conclusion: a Marxist for our time?
