ABSTRACT

This book traces the crystallisation of post-Marxism as a specific theoretical position in its own right and considers the role played in its development by post-structuralism, postmodernism and second-wave feminism. It examines the history of dissenting tendencies within the Marxist tradition and considers what the future prospects of post-Marxism are likely to be.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

Marxism's ‘disenchanted'

chapter |22 pages

‘An intellectual malady'?

The Laclau–Mouffe affair (I)

chapter |14 pages

‘Without apologies'

The Laclau–Mouffe affair (II)

chapter |22 pages

‘Marxism is not a “Science of History”'

Testing the boundaries of Marxism

chapter |22 pages

Post-Marxism before post-Marxism

(I) Luxemburg to the Frankfurt School

chapter |12 pages

Post-Marxism before post-Marxism

(II) Hybridising Marxism

chapter |21 pages

Constructing incredulity

(I) Postmodernism

chapter |15 pages

Constructing incredulity

(II) Feminism

chapter |24 pages

An open universe?

Postmodern science and the Marxist dialectic

chapter |8 pages

‘Not show biz'

Pluralist politics and the emancipation of critique