Open Marxism 2: Theory and Practice - Open Marxism

Publisher Marketing: Through a series of interconnected articles, this book makes available a range of international authors for an English readership. Topics covered include: Marxism and political economy, historical materialism, dialectics, state theory, class crisis, fetishism and the periodization of capitalist development.

Contributor Bio:  Bonefeld, Werner Werner Bonefeld specializes in critical political economy and social theory. He has taught at the Universities of Frankfurt and Edinburgh, and more recently he conducted post-graduate seminars at the Universities of Puebla and Buenos Aries. His work contributed to the development of the internationally recognised Open Marxism school. He is a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of York, England, and teaches a variety of topics, including State, Economy and Society and Karl Marx. His lectures at the University of Buenos Aires will be published in 2010. With Michael Heinrich he is currently completing a book on critical theory and political economy, forthcoming in German in 2010, and with Christine Achinger (Warwick) and Marcel Stoetzler (Manchester) he is editing a critical volume on Antisemitism for publication in 2011. Bonefeld is the editor of SUBVERTING THE PRESENT, IMAGINING THE FUTURE: INSURRECTION, MOVEMENT, COMMONS (2007) and REVOLUTIONARY WRITING: COMMON SENSE ESSAYS IN POST-POLITICAL POLITICS (2003), both from Autonomedia. Contributor Bio:  Gunn, Richard Gunn is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Contributor Bio:  Psychopedis, Kosmas Psychopedis has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Gottingen and at the Panteios School of Political Science, Athens. He currently holds a Professorship in Political Theory at the Department of Economics, University of Athens.