Performing Marx : contemporary negotiations of a living tradition / Bradley J. Macdonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macdonald, Bradley J.

Series:

SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--Philosophy.

Socialism.

Communism--Philosophy.

Communism.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

viii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006]

Summary:

Performing Marx looks at what it means to be a Marxist dealing with contemporary political and theoretical developments in the twenty-first century. Drawing upon Marx's work, Western Marxism, and post-structuralist theory, Bradley J. Macdonald explores how a living tradition of Marx's ideas can constructively engage a politics of desire and pleasure, ecological sustainability, a politics of everyday life that takes seriously popular culture, and the nature of globalization and of the radical forces being arrayed against the logics of global capitalism. By engaging such crucial issues, Macdonald also provides important clarifications of the work of William Morris, Guy Debord and the situationists, Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri, Ernesto Laclau, and Chantal Mouffe, as they relate to Marx.

Contents:

Introduction: genealogies of performance

Marx and living traditions

Marx and desire

Ecologizing Marx? : William Morris and a genealogy of ecosocialism

Marx and a politics of everyday life : revisiting situationist theory

Finding Marx through Foucault

(Re)Marx on the political: Antonio Negri, antagonism, and the politics of the multitude

Conclusion: globalizing Marx? : radical politics in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-197) and index.

ISBN:

0791466655

OCLC:

58919623

Publisher Number:

9780791466650