Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment by Memos, Christos
Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment by Memos, Christos

Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment

Bringing together the various heterodox traditions, groups and scholars that came under the heading of Open Marxism...
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Author: Christos Memos
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment by Memos, Christos

Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment

$496.14
Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment by Memos, Christos

Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment

$496.14
Author: Christos Memos
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Bringing together the various heterodox traditions, groups and scholars that came under the heading of Open Marxism for the first time, this book assesses the evolution of Open Marxism from the initial usage of the term by Kostas Axelos in France in the 1950s and the journal, Arguments, principally the 'anarchist Marx' of Maximilien Rubel and the 'Libertarian Marxism' of Daniel Gu?rin, through Open Marxism as it was developed in Eastern Europe, especially in the scholarly work of Karel Kosik in Czechoslovakia, the work of the Polish Open Marxists and the Praxis group in Yugoslavia, to Johannes Agnoli's work in post-1968 (West) Germany, and finally to the work developed by Bonefeld, Clarke, Gunn and Holloway within the framework of the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) in Britain since the 1980s.

Its comprehensive study of the historical development of Open Marxism in all its various guises and forms reasserts the rich insights of its devastating critique of social democracy, Leninism-Stalinism and the Althusserian structuralist paradigm. It introduces a new readership to Open Marxism's negative, fundamental, and destructive critique of capitalism and examines the practical relevance of its subversive thinking to the contemporary struggle for a free and open socialist society.

Author: Christos Memos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 02/06/2025
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781350073326

About the Author
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) and Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic: Genesis, Constitution, and Regressive Progress (2021).
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