ABSTRACT
Previous historiography on the Marxist thought of state socialist Europe has taken the perspective of ideology, state repression and censorship, or biographical and institutional changes. This volume proposes studies of Eastern European Marxism on its own terms and in situ: in relation to its changing conceptual and epistemological configuration over time, as well to the institutional, social, and historical contexts in which Marxism was situated. The introduction lays out an analytical framework for situated Marxism as well as the main arguments emerging from the studies on Marxist philosophy of science, Marxist social thought, and futurology and global studies included in the volume. It argues for the continued relevance of Eastern European Marxism within a broader history of postwar theoretical practices.
