Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Hewener, Michael (Hrsg.), Johannes Agnoli oder: Subversion als Wissenschaft. (Biographische Miniaturen) 176 S. 2025:2 (Dietz, GW) <745-623>
ISBN 978-3-320-02429-1 paper ¥3,249.- (税込) EUR 14.00

Im Anfang war die Subversion. Im Deutschen hat der Begriff einen negativen Beigeschmack, fuer Johannes Agnoli (1925?2003) war er hingegen der Inbegriff von Befreiung ? und dieser verschrieb er sich als Professor fuer Politikwissenschaften am Otto-Suhr-Institut in Berlin. Am 22. Februar 1925, vor 100 Jahren, wurde Johannes Agnoli geboren. Sein bekanntestes Buch erschien 1967: ≫Transformation der Demokratie≪, eine der bedeutendsten parlamentarismuskritischen Schriften der Nachkriegszeit, ein ≫theoretischer Meilenstein≪ (Joachim Hirsch). ≫Keine Freiheit fuer den, der von ihr Gebrauch macht≪, fasste der Publizist Sebastian Haffner 1967 Agnolis Analyse der Herrschaftstechniken gegenueber ≫Subversiven≪ in einer Rezension zusammen ? die Antiautoritaeren von 1968 sollten es am eigenen Leib spueren. Die Verfassung der Bundesrepublik interpretierte Agnoli als Klassenkompromiss, aber einen, der nicht offen fuer ein sozialistisches Projekt war, wie etwa sein Kollege Wolfgang Abendroth glaubte, sondern einen, der hauptsaechlich dazu gedacht war, die Massen von der Macht fernzuhalten. Gerade diese kritische Perspektive machen seine Arbeiten zu parlamentarischer Demokratie in Zeiten von Krise, Autoritarismus und faschistischer Gefahr so aktuell. Dabei folgte seine geduldige und ironische Art, auf Emanzipation und Subversion zu setzen, dem Prinzip Hoffnung. Die biografische Miniatur gibt Einblick in Agnolis Leben und bietet einen guten Einstieg in sein Denken ? auch dank einiger Originaltexte, die nun erstmals in gedruckter Form vorliegen.

都市のマルクス主義の再想像
Biagi, Francesco (ed.), Reimagining Urban Marxisms: Rethinking Thinkers, Texts and Challenges. (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism) 336 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-745>
ISBN 978-1-032-60548-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of urban Marxisms.Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the 'urban question', such as urban sprawl, housing and increasing rates of urbanization across the globe. With attention to the manner in which the three axes of class, gender and race play a fundamental role in contemporary social phenomena, it interweaves different issues that are inextricably linked in matters of urban inequality. The book bridges a significant gap between urban studies and Marxists theories by reviving Marx and Engels' ideas in the context of analyzing urban studies in the twenty-first century. The objective is to bring together diverse perspectives and directions of the ongoing debate on the "urban question". Although there are multiple Marxisms and theoretical currents inspired by Marxism that seek to understand the urban and spatial transformations of today, there has been a lack of comprehensive scholarship that systematically brings them together to frame this debate. The goal is to unite the main critical Marxist perspectives on contemporary urban studies.Reimagining Urban Marxisms will therefore appeal to scholars across disciplines with interests in Marxist analyses of contemporary urban and spatial transformations, and the phenomenon of planetary urbanization.

ラディカルな変化のための理論－マルクスとレーニンの政治経済学の主要テキスト
Das, Raju J., Theories for Radical Change: Key Texts from the Political Economy of Marx and Lenin. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 323) 334 pp. 2025:7 (Brill, NE) <744-101>
ISBN 978-90-04-73039-7 hard ¥34,118.- (税込) EUR 147.00

This book is focused on production and its relations. It argues for the primacy of economic over extra-economic processes, and of production and production relations over other aspects of the economic realm. It explores how production relations of capitalism and imperialism fetter the development of the productive forces of nature and wage-labour and hinder state's ability to solve the problems produced by capitalism. It covers a wide range of political-economic issues including commodity production, class differentiation, fundamental traits of capitalist production (including its uneven and combined development), capitalist state, and the impoverishment of common people and their struggle against the capitalist mode of production.

リベラルな民主主義の批判
Teeple, Gary, The Democracy That Never Was: A Critique of Liberal Democracy. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 547 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-801>
ISBN 978-3-031-68019-9 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Liberal democracy is usually treated as an independent variable, as possessing the absolutes of democratic rule. Its variable forms, changing principles and practice, and conscious destruction by its own advocates, in particular the United States, however, suggest that it is not what it appears to be. This book argues that it is a dependent variable, the political form required by the changing configurations of national capital and their countervailing forces. The forms of liberal democracy have always shifted in concert with the mode of production as their premise. The absolutes of liberal democracy, the author contends, have never been anything but the abstracted principles of the marketplace. Their nature has now become especially visible for what they have been because the premise as national capital development has changed, leaving liberal democracy as a form without its original content, and its present content out of keeping with a national jurisdiction. As a political form, it persists, but its role has been transformed from the regulation of national capital accumulation to the enforcer of the demands of global configurations of capital. It is a role that its citizens implicitly understand, as revealed in widespread political cynicism, decreasing electoral participation, and declining legitimacy that require ever greater measures of deceit from political leaders and increased means of coercive social control, including militarized police forces and pervasive electronic surveillance. There can be no going back to the stage of national politics because the neoliberal content of liberal democratic policies represents the necessities of global capital. And it is the contradictions of global capital that define the character of early 21st century political conflict.

マルクス・エンゲルス研究論文集　2022/23年版
Hecker, Rolf / Sperl, Richard / Vollgraf, C.-E. (Hrsg.), Beitraege zur Marx-Engels-Forschung. Neue Folge 2022/23: "Alles gesellschaftliche Leben ist wesentlich praktisch". 224 S. 2024:11 (Argument, GW) <741-99>
ISBN 978-3-86754-688-1 paper ¥5,802.- (税込) EUR 25.00 *

Die achte Feuerbach-These von Marx steht fuer den Titel dieses Bandes. Sie orientiert auf die Praxis der Gesellschaft, d.?h. auf deren materialistische Grundlagen, was in den folgenden Thesen weiter ausgefuehrt wird und in der beruehmten elften These mit ihrem Aufruf zur Veraenderung der Gesellschaft kulminiert. Der Kommentar zu diesen von Marx in seinem Notizbuch fluechtig niedergeschriebenen Thesen wird hier abgeschlossen. Der Band enthaelt traditionell eine Reihe von Aufsaetzen, die sich um ?Das Kapital? drehen. So wird gefragt, ob Marx in der Darstellung des Doppelcharakters der Waren eine ≫falsche Spur≪ gelegt habe. Weiterhin werden die mathematische Dimension der Mehrwerttheorie veranschaulicht und ein Detail aus einer Fussnote aufgeklaert. Ausserdem gibt es erstmals zusammengefuehrte Informationen ueber den ungarischen Weinhaendler Bertalan von Szemere und biographische Mitteilungen ueber den Kaufmann Julius Kizitaff?? beide in ihrem Verhaeltnis zu Engels und Marx.

自由と完全－ライプニッツからマルクスまでのドイツ政治思想
Moggach, Douglas, Freedom and Perfection: German Political Thought from Leibniz to Marx. (Ideas in Context) 280 pp. 2025:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <741-48>
ISBN 978-1-009-59043-3 hard ¥29,568.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

Leibniz, this study argues, is the genuine initiator of German Idealism. His analysis of freedom as spontaneity and the relations he establishes among freedom, justice, and progress underlie Kant's ideas of rightful interaction and his critiques of Enlightened absolutism. Freedom and Perfection offers a historical examination of perfectionism, its political implications and transformations in German thought between 1650 and 1850. Douglas Moggach demonstrates how Kant's followers elaborated a new ethical-political approach, 'post-Kantian perfectionism', which, in the context of the French Revolution, promoted the conditions for free activity rather than state-directed happiness. Hegel, the Hegelian School, and Marx developed this approach further with reference to the historical process as the history of freedom. Highlighting the decisive importance of Leibniz for subsequent theorists of the state, society, and economy, Freedom and Perfection offers a new interpretation of important schools of modern thought and a vantage point for contemporary political debates.

マルクス主義と地球の居住可能性の危機
Soriano Clemente, Carles, Marxism and Earth's Habitability Crisis: From the Metabolic Rift to the Anthropocene. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 163 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <739-66>
ISBN 978-3-031-72536-4 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book argues that as long as capitalism is globally dominant, there must be a crisis of habitability on Earth. Overcoming this crisis is not a matter of technology. Technological strategies need to be adopted to mitigate human impact on Earth, but as long as they are implemented on a capitalist basis the crisis will not be overcome. Unfortunately, this is not fully understood today, and initiatives to confront the crisis based on idealism and positivism flourish everywhere. This makes research into the main epistemological reasons for the misunderstanding of the relationship between the reproduction of capital and the crisis of habitability an urgent task, which is undertaken throughout the book. Such misunderstanding is ultimately related to the old problem of philosophy, the relationship between thought and being. A problem that the crisis of habitability expresses as the insurmountable contradiction between capitalist humans and nature.

エコ社会主義－入門
Engel-Di Mauro, Salvatore, Ecosocialism: An Introduction. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 403 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-764>
ISBN 978-3-031-74287-3 hard ¥39,453.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book offers an extensive critical overview of eco-socialism, one of the most generative and significant aspects of contemporary debates within socialism. Marxism has played a foundational role in the development of ecosocialism since its inception and has also led to critical reflections on the 20th century Marxism and ecological interpretation of Marxist writings. Despite the relevance of ecosocialism to the pressing debates on the ecological crisis and the growing literature on ecosocialism, there has not been a comprehensive account on ecosocialism and its variations. This volume seeks to fill this important gap and to pave the way for a more systematic development of this emerging paradigm. The book not only engages with a critique of other non-socialist ecological schools of thought in defence of ecosocialism, but also provides a critical overview of debates within ecosocialism and of ecosocialism itself. The latter includes an appraisal of ecosocialism in Bolivarian Venezuela and the implications of current efforts in the People's Republic of China to build an ecological civilisation. Furthermore, the book contains a crucial discussion about the relation between eco-socialism and indigenous studies and movements.

Woodson, Hue, The Black Marxist Feminism of bell hooks: Towards an Intersectional Theory of White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 492 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-766>
ISBN 978-3-031-74696-3 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores bell hooks' trajectory of work and cohesiveness of thought about the meaning and meaningfulness of black womanhood in terms of a Black Marxist feminism, which uniquely confronts the dimensions of feminism and womanism; the relations between the secular and the religious; the problems of gender and sexism; and the structural and systemic issues of oppression, domination, white supremacy, and capitalism. In making sense of black womanhood in its philosophical, social, cultural, institutional, and historical complexities, hooks' Black Marxist feminism constructs an intersectional theory about what hooks describes as white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. In this sense, hooks' Black Marxist feminism conceptualizes the ways and means by which white supremacist capitalist patriarchy imposes intersectional predicaments upon black womanhood, drawing foundationally on Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, working within the purview of a host of Marxisms in Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Karl Kautsky, Nikolai Bukharin, and Georgi Plekhanov, and speaking to the Marxist proclivities of Cedric Robinson, Cornel West, Charles W. Mills, James H. Cone, Stuart Hall, and Angela Y. Davis.

A.グラムシ入門　第2版
Hoare, George / Sperber, Nathan, An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy. 2nd ed. 296 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-145>
ISBN 978-1-350-42316-9 hard ¥19,712.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-42317-6 paper ¥6,473.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

This book examines the life, major ideas and lasting influence of the Italian militant and political thinker Antonio Gramsci. Author of the famous Prison Notebooks - over 2,000 pages of profound and influential reflections on history, culture, politics, philosophy and revolution - and head of Italy's Communist Party in the 1920s, Antonio Gramsci is one of the most important European political thinkers of the 20th century. An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci provides an accessible overview of Gramsci's thought and analyses how Gramsci's theories can be applied to 21st-century politics in the age of Brexit, Covid, the rise of populism and the Ukraine crisis.This edition includes:? A brand new chapter that considers Gramsci's relevance to contemporary politics and events? Expanded and updated sections applying Gramsci to contemporary political theory and political economy? An exploration of the most recent Gramsci scholarship? A new section on Gramsci's influence on the New Right

Kufferath, Philipp, Peter von Oertzen 1924-2008: A Political and Intellectual Biography. (Historical Materialism Book Series 340) 676 pp. 2025:2 (Brill, NE) <735-439>
ISBN 978-90-04-70567-8 hard ¥62,667.- (税込) EUR 270.00

This insightful study examines the life of Peter von Oertzen, tracing his journey from his Berlin roots, shaped by Prussian traditions and National Socialism, to his transformation into a Marxist and left-wing Social Democrat. It highlights his roles in political science, informal networks, and educational initiatives, as well as his impact within the SPD and his dialogues with various Marxist, councilist, and alternative left tendencies.

Kats, Yefim, The Limits of Technology and the End of History: Marx and Beyond. 177 pp. 2024:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-70>
ISBN 978-3-031-69544-5 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book examines the long-standing belief in infinite scientific and technological progress and links it to the Enlightenment ideal of man as a universal being and subject of the universal world history, destined to become a 'master and possessor of nature.' The author analyzes a broad range of issues in epistemology, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of science and technology. Marx's philosophy is explored to the extent that his dialectic of labor sheds light on Western technological optimism and the ideal of human universality and offers an elaborate framework for analyzing the intrinsic limits to technological progress. The focus is on his 'early' works, providing a theoretical and humanistic underbelly for the 'mature' ideas of the Capital. Examining the epistemic foundations of the belief in infinite progress, the author argues that actual infinity, either in the form of unbounded technological/scientific expansion or infinite complexity of nature, is redundant for the universality of man, his scientific pursuit and historical experience. The conundrum of universality and power calls for a systematic critique of instrumental reason, its practical applicability and value structure.

H.ラスキ－不承不承のマルクス主義者
Lamb, Peter, Harold Laski, the Reluctant Marxist: Socialist Democracy for a World in Turmoil. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 237 pp. 2024:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-858>
ISBN 978-3-031-65761-0 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines Harold Laski's relationship to Marxism. Laski was a reluctant Marxist; he had been a pluralist, democratic socialist who wanted to reach a better society by means of parliamentary, constitutional and associational channels. In fact, he never abandoned these early aspirations. In the 1930s and 1940s he wove them into a distinctive Marxist position as he gradually came to believe that there was no answer to Marxist philosophy on history, social change and the prospects for socialism. It is the incorporation of his earlier political thought into his later work that makes his Marxism so fascinating and his work raises important questions. Harold Laski's Marxism aims to bring a relatively forgotten political theorist back into the spotlight. Peter Lamb provides an overview to Laski's political thought in the 20th century and explores his connections to essential foundations of Marxist thought. He ends with a discussion of ways in which Laski's Marxism is of lasting significance and can contribute to more recent Marxist and neo-Marxist debates.

J.ビデ著　民衆が統治できるのか？－政党、運動、暴動
Bidet, Jacques, Can Common People Govern?: Political Parties, Movements, and Uprisings. (Marx and Marxisms) 160 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <733-808>
ISBN 978-1-032-84357-5 hard ¥13,795.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99 *

In Can Common People Govern?, the renowned French social theorist, philosopher, and historian Jacques Bidet offers a theoretical and political exploration of political parties, movements, and uprisings as forms of popular political organization. He highlights the contradictions of the party-form and the movement-form through a critical analysis of Lenin, Xi Jinping, Gramsci, Althusser, and the theorists of left-wing populism, Laclau and Mouffe. Popular political organization, he argues, must be related to the structure of modern society, in which the popular class is opposed in a "triangular duel" against a dominant class that includes two poles in conflictual connivance, "capitalpower" and "competence-power" (or "elite"). This duality offers the common people an angle of attack for a risky alliance with this elite against capital. This class confrontation is put in the context of the ongoing ecological disaster and popular uprisings. In the age of disaster, environmentalism and social emancipation must be conceived as one and the same thing.Can Common People Govern? is relevant to students of Marxism as well as wider readership interested in political thought and action.

Emigh, Rebecca Jean / Riley, Dylan (eds.), Elites, Nonelites, and Power: The Critical Legacy of Elite Theory from Marx to Lachmann, and Then Beyond. (Political Power and Social Theory 41) 368 pp. 2024:11 (Emerald, UK) <731-682>
ISBN 978-1-83797-584-6 hard ¥31,746.- (税込) US$ 148.00 *

In a world of vertiginous inequality, escalating ecological disaster, and extraordinary political and economic turbulence generated by a winner-take-all society seemingly designed to concentrate privilege and power in the hands of a very few, the central question that faces social science-and indeed the world-is whether social protest will change anything, or whether elites will continue to lead the planet and its population to disaster. All important topics of contemporary social science, including racial justice, environmental change, immigration, economic inequality, and education, to name a few, revolve around this issue. Elites, Nonelites, and Power explores how the question of the power of elites, and the conditions under which that power might be tamed, lie at the heart of social science today. Bringing together a cutting-edge set of multidisciplinary papers on power, elites, and nonelites, that weigh in on these central issues of the world and social science, the collection consider these topics in a new, inclusive way, by drawing in researchers who deal with topics central to elite theory, but who might not be represented in more classic statements of it. A "go to" piece for several generations of scholars, this is a compelling volume for scholars across the social sciences interested in elite theory.

Tanyildiz, Goekboerue, Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 302) 195 pp. 2024:11 (Brill, NE) <730-78>
ISBN 978-90-04-71221-8 hard ¥25,298.- (税込) EUR 109.00

Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations argues that marxism must have a robust understanding of embodied social relations, such as race, gender, and sexuality, in order to produce the knowledge necessary for transformative social change. Tanyildiz subjects two important strands of marxist social theory -marxist-feminism and social reproduction theory- to a methodological examination and demonstrates their shortcomings. Focusing on these strands' critiques of intersectionality as a moment of crystallization in concept formation, Grounding Critique explores alternative ways of using Marx's method to understand contemporary human praxis.

Ricciardi, Maurizio, The Provisional Power: Marx and Politics as a Critique of Society. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 286) 198 pp. 2024:8 (Brill, NE) <726-133>
ISBN 978-90-04-69915-1 hard ¥48,973.- (税込) EUR 211.00 *

In this book, you can find an accurate and unusual analysis of the different ways in which Karl Marx investigates the political and social phenomenon of power. As a political militant, as a journalist, as a critic of capitalism and as a revolutionary theorist, Marx continually confronts the ways in which individuals and social classes enter into power relations. For Marx, however, there is no bourgeois power that proletarians can simply conquer and then use to their advantage. Workers' power is always provisional because it constantly changes the very conditions of its own production.

共和主義とマルクスの社会・政治思想の形成
Leipold, Bruno, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought. 440 pp. 2024:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-76>
ISBN 978-0-691-20523-6 hard ¥8,569.- (税込) US$ 39.95

The first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx's relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thoughtIn Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx's thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Marx's relation to republicanism changed over the course of his life, but its complex influence on his thought cannot be reduced to wholesale adoption or rejection. Challenging common depictions of Marx that downplay or ignore his commitment to politics, democracy, and freedom, Leipold shows that Marx viewed democratic political institutions as crucial to overcoming the social unfreedom and domination of capitalism. One of Marx's principal political values, Leipold argues, was a republican conception of freedom, according to which one is unfree when subjected to arbitrary power.Placing Marx's republican communism in its historical context-but not consigning him to that context-Leipold traces Marx's shifting relationship to republicanism across three broad periods. First, Marx began his political life as a republican committed to a democratic republic in which citizens held active popular sovereignty. Second, he transitioned to communism, criticizing republicanism but incorporating the republican opposition to arbitrary power into his social critiques. He argued that although a democratic republic was not sufficient for emancipation, it was necessary for it. Third, spurred by the events of the Paris Commune of 1871, he came to view popular control in representation and public administration as essential to the realization of communism. Leipold shows how Marx positioned his republican communism to displace both antipolitical socialism and anticommunist republicanism. One of Marx's great contributions, Leipold argues, was to place politics (and especially democratic politics) at the heart of socialism.

Patnaik, Arun Kumar, Gramsci and South Asia: Common Sense, Religion and Political Society. 220 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-78>
ISBN 978-1-032-26489-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Gramsci's theory of common sense is a metanarrative that can be used to explain both religion and political formations. This book examines Gramsci's perspective and how his theories translate into South Asian society. It explores Gramsci's historicism, which is sensitive to historical, regional and national differences, and its relevance in post-colonial societies.The volume discusses themes like common sense, religious common sense, folk religion, dialogue and common sense concerning civil/political society through the lens of Gramsci's historical perspectives. It also looks at Gramscian critique of political secularism, the ideology and politics of Hindutva, civil society in a non-Western context and modes of political society in India.Lucid and topical, this book is a must-read for scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, post-colonial studies, South Asian politics, cultural studies and political sociology.

Fielder, Anna, Going Into Labour: Childbirth In Capitalism. (Mapping Social Reproduction Theory) 240 pp. 2024:11 (Pluto Pr., UK) <723-518>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4949-7 paper ¥5,347.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99 *

'This insightful, thoughtful work needs to be read by all of us who are interested in contemporary childbirth practices. Anna Fielder has brought together the two concepts of labour - work, and giving birth - and shows us how both are subsumed under capitalism' - Barbara Katz Rothman, author of In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace Childbirth is often described as a natural process, and yet the choices we make around birth, the risks we face and the care available to us, are tightly bound up in the dynamics of the capitalist system in which we live. Capitalist relations shape childbirth in largely unacknowledged ways but with intensely inequitable, often traumatic, effects. Going into Labour is a Marxist analysis of the labour of childbirth and of birth care. Through the chapters, former midwife Anna Fielder interrogates key features of contemporary childbearing, situating birth as a crucial site of struggle against capitalism. Fielder writes of productivity drives, insurance companies, formulations of risk and calls for scientific evidence. She emphasises the pay and working conditions of birth workers such as midwives and nurses. She also signals the importance of political struggles in birthing arenas against forces including racism, colonialism, misogyny and cisheteronormativity. As capitalism draws on these forces, shaping contemporary inequities and oppressions, activists work to gestate futures that aspire beyond the constraints of the present.

G.A.コーエン－自由、正義、平等
Sypnowich, Christine, G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality. (Key Contemporary Thinkers) 288 pp. 2024:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <723-56>
ISBN 978-1-5095-2993-3 hard ¥15,004.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-2994-0 paper ¥5,351.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was celebrated internationally not only for his penetrating ideas about liberty, justice and equality, but also for his method, a highly original and influential combination of analytical philosophy and Marxism. Christine Sypnowich guides readers through the rich body of Cohen's work. By identifying five paradoxes in his thought, she explores the origins of his interest in analytical philosophy, his engagement with the ideas of right-wing libertarianism, his critique of John Rawls's work, his late-career turn to conservatism, and the tension between his preoccupation with individual responsibility and the idea of a socialist ethos. Sypnowich acknowledges the strengths of Cohen's positions as well as their tensions and flaws, and presents him as a thinker of startling insight. This compelling introduction is a go-to resource for students and scholars of modern political philosophy.

de Nanteuil, Matthieu / Fjeld, Anders (eds.), Marx and Europe: Beyond Stereotypes, Below Utopias. (Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations 30) 177 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <722-75>
ISBN 978-3-031-53735-6 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book provides a unique scientific contribution to the debate on Marx's legacy in proposing to critically articulate two "lines of discussion" which are most often kept apart. On the one hand, it reassesses the place of Marxian thought in the construction of Europe, seeking to revitalize the European political debate. On the other, it situates Marx' thought in the perspective of postcolonial and decolonial studies, with particular attention to their effort to overcome the indisputable limits of the Marxian legacy. In asking whether Marx' thought was too European or not European enough, the book examines internationalist emancipatory politics and eurocentrism, class struggle and finance in the shaping of the European institutions, migration, identity and violence, as well as Marxian critiques of colonialism both within and beyond Europe. At a time of extreme tension, also within leftist politics, this book provides a precise and rigorous argument on what continues to make Marx'sthought relevant, in grappling with social domination in the era of global capitalism, while also exploring the limits of Marxism today, both at the European level and worldwide.

Dannemann, Ruediger / Schaefer, G. / Schiller, H.-E. (Hrsg.), Staat und Revolution bei Georg Lukacs. (Staatsverstaendnisse 173) 293 S. 2023:11 (Nomos, GW) <716-140>
ISBN 978-3-7560-1325-8 paper ¥16,014.- (税込) EUR 69.00 *

Die Aufsatzsammlung beschaeftigt sich mit den staatstheoretischen Aspekten des Werkes von Georg Lukacs und mit seiner politischen Praxis, die, nach dem Vorbild Lenins, mit der Theorieproduktion in einem bislang meist uebersehenen Zusammenhang stand. Vierzehn Autorinnen und Autoren eroertern den Demokratiebegriff, die Beziehung zur Problematik des Souveraens und die ethische Dimension in Lukacs’ revolutionaerer Praxis. Neben der Entwicklung seines Denkens vom anerkannten Kulturphilosophen zum revolutionaeren marxistischen Theoretiker wird das Verhaeltnis zum deutschen Idealismus, zu Max Weber und Juergen Habermas thematisiert. Die Gesamtheit der Aufsaetze versucht zu zeigen, dass Lukacs als Theoretiker und Praktiker der Politik unser Zeitgenosse ist. Mit Beitraegen von Paula Alves, M.A. Stefan Bollinger Ruediger Dannemann Ulisse Doga Frank Engster Karl Lauschke Christian Lotz Miklos Mesterhazi Dominik Nagl Alexander Neupert-Doppler Michael Rudlof Gregor Schaefer, M.A. Hans-Ernst Schiller Mariana Teixeira.

Douet, Yohann, L'hegemonie et la revolution: Gramsci penseur politique. (Lignes rouges) 303 p. 2023:11 (Amsterdam, FR) <716-1129>
ISBN 978-2-35480-277-6 paper ¥4,642.- (税込) EUR 20.00

D.ロズールド著　共産主義－歴史、遺産、将来
Losurdo, Domenico, Der Kommunismus: Geschichte, Erbe und Zukunft. 240 S. 2023:10 (PapyRossa, GW) <716-1130>
ISBN 978-3-89438-815-7 paper ¥5,106.- (税込) EUR 22.00

Nach dem Ende des ?sozialistischen Lagers? und der Aufloesung der UdSSR gerieten der Marxismus und die kommunistische Bewegung wie die Linke insgesamt, insbesondere im Westen, in eine Krise, die als unumkehrbar erscheint. Diese Krise ist aber kein auswegloses Schicksal. Um einen Weg zu finden, sie zu ueberwinden, formulierte Domenico Losurdo in diesem Buch, seinem letzten, jenseits aller apologetischen Absichten eine historisch-philosophische Bewertung der sowjetischen Erfahrung und des Marxismus ueberhaupt. Ist der ?reale Sozialismus? ergebnislos gescheitert? Ist die marxsche Theorie damit hinfaellig? Losurdo geht aber noch einen Schritt weiter und befragt den Marxismus, was er in absehbarer Zukunft zu leisten imstande sein kann. Damit ist dieses Buch zugleich auch ein persoenliches Erbe und Vermaechtnis -Domenico Losurdos als eines fuehrenden politischen Philosophen der Gegenwart. Eingeleitet und herausgegeben wird es von Giorgio Grimaldi, einem seiner Schueler, der als Privatdozent an der Universitaet von Urbino taetig ist, an der auch Losurdo selbst lange Zeit als Dekan der philosophischen Fakultaet gelehrt hat.

マルクス主義と国際関係－ブラジルのグローバル・サウスからの研究
Bugiato, Caio (ed.), Marxism and International Relations: Studies from the Brazilian Global South. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 279) 322 pp. 2024:4 (Brill, NE) <716-139>
ISBN 978-90-04-69355-5 hard ¥33,654.- (税込) EUR 145.00 *

Where is Marxism in International Relations? The answer lies in this collective work by Brazilian authors who have looked to Marxist theory for an alternative perspective, and therefore outside the dominant ideas in the field, to analyse International Relations. Specifically, the answer is divided into themes: key ideas by Marx and Engels for IR, Marxist thinkers as IR theorists, Marxist theories on imperialism, and the Latin-American theory on dependency. With the end result, this book adds to the international intellectual efforts to criticize and overcome capitalism.

スピノザとマルクスの労働の政治論
Read, Jason, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work. 224 pp. 2024:2 (Verso, UK) <714-19>
ISBN 978-1-83976-762-3 paper ¥4,783.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99 *

Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery-working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Spinoza, why do people fight to be exploited as if it were liberation?To find the answer, The Double Shift turns to the intersection of Marx and Spinoza and examines contemporary ideologies and the modern phenomena of work-motivational meetings at Apple Stores, the culture of Silicon Valley, as well as film and television, from Office Space to Better Call Saul-to argue for the transformation of our collective imagination and attachment to work.

Gomberg, Paul, Anti-Racism as Communism. 272 pp. 2024:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <713-767>
ISBN 978-1-350-25797-9 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

In the United States there have been brilliant examples of anti-racist struggle-black soldiers in the Civil War, coal miners of Alabama, and especially the anti-racist working-class struggles led by the Communist Party. Yet racism persists: Jim Crow replaced racial slavery, and mass incarceration has replaced Jim Crow. Why? Paul Gomberg argues that racism is functional for capitalism, supplying low-wage, vulnerable labor and driving down conditions for all workers. How can anti-racists put an end to racist society? Gomberg argues for race-centered Marxism: anti-racism must lead working-class struggle, but racism will end only in a communist society that creates opportunity for all.

Chehonadskih, Maria, Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 275 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <712-80>
ISBN 978-3-031-40238-8 hard ¥25,527.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environment, agency and subjectivity, party and class, knowledge and power. The book traces the adventure of the synthesis of empiricism and Marxism across philosophy, science, politics, art and literature from the 1890s to the 1930s, offering a radical rethinking of the true scope and scale that the main proponent of Empirio-Marxism, Alexander Bogdanov, had on the post-revolutionary socialist legacies. Chehonadskih draws on both key and forgotten figures and movements, such as Proletkult, Productivism and Constructivism, filling a gap in the literature that will be particularly significant for Marxism, continental philosophy, art theory and Slavic studies specialists.

Haenninen, Sakari, Political Creativity: Antonio Gramsci on Political Transformation. 206 pp. 2024:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <712-560>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1621-2 hard ¥26,188.- (税込) GB￡ 93.00 *

For several decades, Antonio Gramsci has been one of the most studied and discussed political theorists; however, his originality as a political thinker has not yet been fully understood. In this incisive book, Sakari Haenninen explores Gramsci's political theory of transformation and posits that he was altogether too creative a thinker to be simply categorized as an adherent of a certain school of thought or tradition.Following Gramsci's own advice to trace the stable and permanent elements of a thinker's intellectual development in statu nascendi, Haenninen argues that Gramsci's thinking was distinct and superior to the material he studied. Chapters examine the central question of his exilic writing in prison: political, historical and societal transformation - generated by struggle and strife giving birth to something qualitatively new and unforeseen - as a pluritemporal 'becoming' rather than unilinear development. The book further investigates Gramsci's modal analysis of political transformation moving from Marxian necessity to Machiavellian opportunity.Political Creativity: Antonio Gramsci on Political Transformation will be an enlightening read for students and scholars in the fields of political, social and historical science, particularly political theory, cultural studies and European politics. Its insights will also benefit political and civic activists, civil society agencies and think tanks.

マルクス主義と資本主義国家－新たな議論に向けて
Hunter, Rob / Khachaturian, Rafael / Nanopoulos, Eva (eds.), Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a New Debate. (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose) 323 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-87>
ISBN 978-3-031-36166-1 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book builds on the recent revival of interest in Marx and Marxism, calling for a renewal and refinement of Marxist state theory. It aims to provoke and encourage new debates and critiques that build on-but also update and extend-the rich tradition of Marxist analyses of the capitalist state, including the well-known debates of the 1970s. The chapters present a dynamic and diverse constellation of arguments and perspectives on a range of topics, from general re-appraisals of the capitalist state to investigations of contemporary challenges-including digitalisation, the ecological crisis, the coronavirus pandemic, social reproduction, and critical political economy. What they share is a commitment to an understanding of the specifically capitalist character of the modern state and its significance for any serious discussion of the causes of our current age of global catastrophe and the overcoming of capitalist social relations.

Plys, Kristin / Priyansh / Goonewardena, Kanishka (eds.), Marxist Thought in South Asia. (Political Power and Social Theory 40) 260 pp. 2023:12 (Emerald, UK) <710-90>
ISBN 978-1-83797-183-1 hard ¥28,314.- (税込) US$ 132.00 *

Marxism is not just a Euro-American preoccupation. It has had vibrant articulations around the world, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and amongst Black diasporas. But South Asia has been relatively neglected in efforts to register the revolutionary theoretical traditions of the Global South. Reinvigorating the study of Marxism within the South Asian context, this volume of Political Power and Social Theory highlights lesser-known thinkers to unsettle the propensity within the Marxist cannon to disproportionately fixate on white male theorists. Forging an anti-imperialist Marxism through dialectical and historical approaches, chapters demonstrate how the South Asian facet of this revolutionary tradition can contribute to and even reenergize global Marxist theory.

Yang, Haifeng, The Philosophy of Capital. 258 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-92>
ISBN 978-981-9935-44-4 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book attempts to reveal Karl Marx's philosophical critique of the social being in capitalist societies from the text of Capital. Marxists' different understandings of Capital in different historical periods reveal the rich meaning of Capital, which plays an important role in promoting Marxian philosophy. These different modes of interpretation also mean that the understanding of Capital is endless, because re-reading of Capital will always open up a new realm for the interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Since the financial crisis in 2008, Capital has once again become a hot topic in academic fields. However, in these new interpretations, there is no fundamental breakthrough in the illustration of Marx's thought, because some either stick to the discussions in pure economic fields, some the revision of Marx's manuscripts from the perspective of literature compilation, others the role of Engels' edition. The popularity of Capital mainly stays in a certain emotion and in the internal requirements of critical reflection on capitalist society.

Murray, Patrick / Schuler, Jeanne, Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy: Recognizing Capital. (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose) 341 pp. 2023:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-27>
ISBN 978-3-031-37544-6 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose. The chapters form a connected inquiry into consequences of capital, a far-reaching social form, through a critique of political economy and the mindset it shares with much modern philosophy and social theory. The authors call this bifurcating mentality factoring philosophy. Factoring philosophy mistakes the distinguishable for the separable. It splits the subjective and objective, form and content, and it takes the object of social theory to be an impossible economy-in-general, stripped of constitutive social forms. The critique of factoring philosophy structures the collection, which makes a wide-ranging contribution to the research field of the critique of political economy as critical social theory. Ultimately, this book solidifies Murray and Schuler's impact on the study of political economy, political philosophy, modern philosophy, Hegel, Marx, and critical theory.

Chambers, James, Marx and Laozi: A Dialectical Synthesis. 447 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-14>
ISBN 978-3-031-40980-6 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined. The resulting synthesis is a positive materialist negation of Hegel's idealist dialectics. Syntheses are presented for Marx and Laozi in ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, scientific method, ethics and politics: the full spectrum of their foundational principles. The book is an attempt to reconstruct a materialist interpretation of Laozi, which can be put to work for Marxist theory.

Wyatt, Chris, Associational Anarchism: Towards a Left-Libertarian Conception of Freedom. (Contemporary Anarchist Studies) 232 pp. 2023:10 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <708-727>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7128-3 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Associational anarchism presents a ground-breaking alternative to both liberal democracy and state socialism, derived from the ideas of Karl Marx and G. D. H. Cole. Uniting the public sphere of citizenship with the private sphere of production in a system of communal ownership, the book proposes a scheme of horizontal networks held together through libertarian politics. With no role for a centralised state, the functions of coordination and administration are fulfilled through pluralist self-governance. Political intermediation proceeds via a web of functional associations, which operate within a system of revitalised communities, while management is carried out through modes of self-regulation that embody the key anarchist values of equality, solidarity and mutual-aid.

ボルシェヴィズムとは何だったのか？
Lih, Lars T., What Was Bolshevism? (Historical Materialism Book Series 298) 590 pp. 2023:12 (Brill, NE) <708-104>
ISBN 978-90-04-68445-4 hard ¥42,706.- (税込) EUR 184.00 *

How did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow individual leaders - Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Trotsky, Zinoviev - to come alive and speak in their own voices, with surprising results that challenge conventional narratives left and right. What Was Bolshevism? uses novels, plays, literary criticism, photographs, statues, poetry, history textbooks, songs, and film to paint an indispensable self-portrait of Soviet civilization.

Wenxi, Zhang, Property and Justice: A Trend Towards Marxist Political Philosophy. (China Perspectives) 328 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <707-82>
ISBN 978-1-032-61185-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book attempts to answer the question "what on earth is the Marxist political philosophy?" The author discusses Karl Marx's vision of the good life and the good society, focusing in particular on the interrelationship between property and justice.Strictly speaking, the subject of this book should not be placed within an a priori conceptual framework, which essentially focuses on academic notions of the good society, good government and justice. However, for the purposes of this book, Marxist political philosophy, namely communism, is already embodied in two aspects. This book argues that it is the noisy and confusing modern political philosophy that obscures the actualization of human nature unfolded by the Marxist political philosophy before us.The book will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy, Marxism, Chinese studies and Chinese Marxist philosophy.

Hosseini, S. A. Hamed / Gills, Barry K., Capital Redefined: A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life. (Rethinking Globalizations) 168 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <707-492>
ISBN 978-1-032-37476-5 hard ¥15,484.- (税込) GB￡ 54.99 *

Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of "capital," departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue that the current understanding of "value" must be re-examined and liberated from its subservient ties to capital while acknowledging the ways in which capital appropriates value. This is achieved by differentiating between "fetish value" created by capital and "true value" generated through various commons-based forms of coexistence.The authors propose a defetishization of value by rejecting the commonly accepted idea of its objectivity. They introduce their "commonist value theory," which redefines capital as both the product and process of perverting the fundamental commoning causes of true value into sources of fetish value. Capital is theorized through a "modular" framework, where multiple intersecting processes constitute a comprehensive power structure, a "value regime," representing an unprecedented degree of the domination of capital over life. Their theory reconciles two apparently incompatible views on the notion of value. One view encompasses all inputs involved in capitalist value production and conflates intrinsic and commodity values. The other warns against this conflation as it treats capital as an entity tightly associated only with commodity production and wage labor.The authors believe that establishing alternative forms of value creation based on normative principles of living in commons is crucial as an analytical base for criticizing existing power structures and economic systems. The book offers a theoretical foundation for transforming our life worlds toward "post-capitalist" futures. It appeals to scholars and students in various fields, such as political economy, capitalism, and post-capitalist studies, economic and political sociology, globalization, development studies, social ecology, and ecological philosophy.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Tunderman, Simon, Hegemony and the Politics of Labour: Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism. (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) 256 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-240>
ISBN 978-1-032-57690-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour takes up a question that goes to the heart of the debate about politics, capitalism, and discourse: how can labour relations and value production be understood as discursive processes?When they launched their poststructuralist discourse theory almost 40 years ago, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe positioned the contingency of discourse and politics in sharp contrast to the deterministic tendencies of the Marxist critique of capitalism. Moving beyond Marxism as an essentialist 'other', discourse theory has since remained notoriously silent on questions related to the core workings of capitalism. This book is the first to bring the central categories of discourse theory into conversation with Marx's critique of political economy. Reintegrating both traditions, it argues that the social relations of labour in capitalism emerge as a hegemonic formation. Its contribution is to extend the reach of discourse theory to the capitalist economy, exploring how a post- Marxist account of labour, value, and class connects to the contingent politics of populism.Hegemony and the Politics of Labour is an original and important contribution to the fields of discourse theory and critique of political economy.

A.グラムシ必携
Carroll, William K. (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci. (Elgar Companions to Great Thinkers) 448 pp. 2024:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-103>
ISBN 978-1-80220-859-7 hard ¥52,096.- (税込) GB￡ 185.00 *

Affirming Antonio Gramsci's continuing influence, this adroitly cultivated Companion offers a comprehensive overview of Gramsci's contributions to the interdisciplinary fields of critical social science, social and political thought, economics and emancipatory politics. Within the tradition of historical materialism, it explores the continuing impact of Gramscian perspectives in the present day.Featuring contributions from eminent scholars, the Companion engages with Gramsci's thought in the broader context of his life, outlining his innovative theoretical and historical analyses of capitalist modernity. Key themes within Gramscian theory are examined such as historical bloc, passive revolution, integral state, and civil society, which elaborate upon the core concept of hegemony. Chapters map out the development of historical materialism and rigorously analyse contemporary issues of urgency including climate breakdown, the rise of far-right populism, and increasing geopolitical tension.Offering a state-of-the-art review of Gramscian theory, this Companion will prove beneficial to academics, researchers and students from across the social sciences and humanities, and will be essential reading for those interested in political economy and political theory, sociology, philosophy, radical and feminist economics, environmental studies, gender studies, and post-colonial and cultural studies.

A.デミロヴィッチ著　民主主義者としてのマルクス
Demirovic, Alex, Marx als Demokrat oder: Das Ende der Politik. 176 S. 2023:11 (Dietz, GW) <706-104>
ISBN 978-3-320-02410-9 paper ¥3,713.- (税込) EUR 16.00

Karl Marx kritisierte die liberale Demokratie als Form der Herrschaft der Bourgeoisie und war zugleich radikaler Verfechter demokratischer Selbstbestimmung. Damit brachte er die grundlegende Ambivalenz von Demokratie auf den Punkt: In ihrem Namen wird Herrschaft ausgeuebt und zurueckgewiesen. Marx vollzieht diese Ambivalenz in seinem Denken selbst nach ? historisch wie theoretisch: Er demonstriert die historischen Begrenzungen demokratischer Konzepte und Praxis und deren zukuenftige Moeglichkeiten bis zur aeussersten Entfaltung. Fuer ihn gehoert in eine radikale Perspektive der Emanzipation auch, dass der Begriff der Demokratie sich selbst historisch ueberfluessig macht. Alex Demirovi? zeigt, wie sich Karl Marx’ Verstaendnis von Demokratie vor dem Hintergrund politischer Enttaeuschungen und Analysen im Lauf der Zeit veraendert hat. Es sind vor allem Marx’ grundlegende Ueberlegungen zum Kapital und zur Stellung von Freiheit und Gleichheit, die sein Verstaendnis von Demokratie gepraegt haben. Dem umfangreichen Essay von Demirovi? sind Texte von Marx beigegeben. Sie veranschaulichen dessen kontinuierliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema am Beispiel von Pressefreiheit und Vertragstheorie, Staat, Parlamentarismus und Raetedemokratie sowie Freiheit und Gleichheit als Ideologieform.

J.ホロウェイの政治思想
Garcia Vela, Alfonso / Bonnet, Alberto (eds.), The Political Thought of John Holloway: Struggle, Critique, Emancipation. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 189 pp. 2023:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-105>
ISBN 978-3-031-34570-8 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides renewed reflection and critical discussion on John Holloway's political and theoretical thought. Two decades ago, in Change the World without Taking Power, Holloway set out on a path that he followed a decade later in Crack Capitalism and continues to walk today with his new book, Hope in Hopeless Times. The contributions in this volume critically analyze his innovative attempt to rethink the meaning and dynamics of revolution in the conditions of contemporary capitalism. More than ten years after the publication of Crack Capitalism, this volume aims to question Holloway's attempt, as well as his theoretical foundations in his original rereading of Marxism and Critical Theory and their relations with the characteristics adopted by the anti-capitalist struggles during the last two decades. Its authors, from different geographies, traditions, and scientific disciplines, establish throughout its pages a fruitful dialogue convened by Holloway's innovative ideas.

Neubauer, Sebastian, Louis Althusser und das politische Denken der Fruehen Neuzeit: Zwischen Marx und der postmarxistischen Theorie. (Schriftenreihe der Sektion Politische Theorien und Ideengeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung fuer Politische Wissenschaft 43) 375 S. 2023:5 (Nomos, GW) <706-107>
ISBN 978-3-7560-0053-1 paper ¥20,656.- (税込) EUR 89.00 *

Althusser ist der dunkle Fleck der politischen Theorie. Seine verfemten und kaum erforschten Beitraege sind dennoch praegend fuer das kritische Denken der Gegenwart. Interessanterweise beruhen seine Interventionen wiederum zentral auf seinen eigenen umfangreichen und nachgelassenen Lektueren des politischen Denkens der Fruehen Neuzeit. Die Studie zeichnet daher erstmals und umfaenglich Althussers Bearbeitungen von Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau und Montesquieu nach. Darauf aufbauend wird verdeutlicht, wie sich hieraus Althussers bis heute wirkende Neubegruendung des Marxismus erhebt. Dabei wird sichtbar, wie sich gerade das von Althussers vielen bedeutenden Schuelern fortgefuehrte postmarxistische Paradigma durch dessen Lektueren der buergerlichen Denker des Staates formiert.

Cadava, Eduardo / Nadal-Melsio, Sara, Politically Red. 384 pp. 2024:1 (MIT Pr., US) <703-87>
ISBN 978-0-262-04780-7 paper ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence."Reading is class struggle," writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality, racism, and fascism. Reading between the lines, as it were, and even behind them, Cadava and Nadal-Melsio engage in an inventive mode of activist writing to argue that reading and writing are never solitary tasks, but always collaborative and collective, and able to revitalize our shared political imagination. Drawing on what they call a "red common-wealth"-an archive of vast resources for doing political work and, in particular, anti-racist work-they demonstrate that sentences, as dynamic repositories of social relations, are historical and political events.

Xiaomeng, Zhang, Justice of Marxism: Debate, Dialogue and Defense. 272 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-89>
ISBN 978-1-032-58107-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book analyzes Marxian theories of justice within the context of contemporary political philosophy and intellectual history.Transcending perspectives from classical Marxism, the author analyzes how Western Marxism has engaged with critically and responded to the theories of justice, especially since the 1970s. The nine chapters cover major intellectual movements and multi-dimensional frameworks of thought that critique and understand anew the idea of justice, including anglophone debates on Marxism and justice, global distributive justice, and viewpoints from analytical Marxism, radical egalitarianism, the Frankfurt School, Marxian feminism and ecological Marxism. The second part of the book returns to the classical texts of Marxism, with a focus on historical materialism and a critique of capitalism to reinterpret basic tenets of justice in Marxism and to reconstruct Marxian theory of justice.This title will be of value to scholars and students interested in theories of justice, Marxian philosophy and political philosophy.

東欧における国家社会主義
Bartha, Eszter / Krausz, Tamas / Mezei, Balint (eds.), State Socialism in Eastern Europe: History, Theory, Anti-capitalist Alternatives. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 219 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-887>
ISBN 978-3-031-22503-1 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to address the long theoretical, conceptual and political debate on the interpretation of "actually existing" socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While the major paradigms - totalitarianism, neo-totalitarianism, revisionism, post-revisionism, modernization, and the world-system analysis - are well known in the Western (English-language) literature, the concept of state socialism, which has strong theoretical roots in Hungary (going back to the works of Gyoergy Lukacs and Istvan Meszaros) received less international attention. This book contributes to a productive discussion about viable alternatives to capitalism by introducing and theoretically elaborating on the concept and practice of state socialism, highlighting the historical significance of Hungary's experiment with the "new economic mechanism" of 1968. It generates a common point of reference for various generations of anti-systemic thinkers, scholars, and activists to move beyond Cold War simplifications and ideological divides, and contributes to the discussion about anti-capitalist alternatives, which are relevant today for the global left. The chapter "Dance Around a 'Sacred Cow': Women's Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Chakrabarti, Anjan / Dhar, Anup, World of the Third and Hegemonic Capital: Between Marx and Freud. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 326 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-888>
ISBN 978-3-031-25016-3 hard ¥34,811.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the foreclosure of class and world of the third. The authors counterpose the world of the third to the mainstream notion of the third world, seen as a lacking other in desperate need of aid and development. Thus, for them, the hegemonic form of global capital is engendered through the foregrounding of the poor, victim third world and the foreclosure of the non-capitalist world of the third. Building on what they characterize as an ab-original reading of Marxian historical materialism and the Lacanian real, the authors seek to conceptualize a counter-hegemonic revolutionary subject as a basis for postcapitalist alternatives to the hegemonic form of global capital.

Nigam, Aditya, Border-Marxisms and Historical Materialism: Untimely Encounters. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 263 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-890>
ISBN 978-3-031-22894-0 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book engages with the diverse traditions within non-Western Marxisms, as they emerge across the Global South, positioning itself against calls for a "pure" Marxism. The author views Marxism as a conceptual "field," similar to electromagnetic or gravitational fields, where bodies and objects impact other bodies and objects without necessarily coming in contact with them. So too, in the "field" of Marxism, people behave in specific ways and deploy languages and concepts with their own specific inflections and accents. While rejecting the view of Marxism as an inherently European and fully-formed doctrine that is corrupted by contact with alien contexts, Nigam simultaneously acknowledges the residual force of certain elements of the theory and the gravitational pull that the authoritative figures continue to have on the evolution of the field in non-Western contexts. He argues that since a large part of Marxism's earthly journey was undertaken in the Global South, it is that experience that needs to be rendered legible, by setting aside the conceptual lens of Western Marxism that repeatedly misreads such experience. Ultimately, the book invites a fruitful and challenging re-examination of a variety of phenomena arising from the contemporaneous co-existence of pre-capitalist and capitalist social relations that have been an inextricable part of the majority of the world-what the author terms "untimely encounters."

マルクス主義、労働主義、英国共産主義のルーツ　1884～1921年
Collins, Tony, Raising the Red Flag: Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism, 1884-1921. (Historical Materialism Book Series 288) 304 pp. 2023:8 (Brill, NE) <702-114>
ISBN 978-90-04-54961-6 hard ¥31,333.- (税込) EUR 135.00 *

Raising the Red Flag explores the origins of the British Marxist movement from the creation of the Social Democratic Federation to the foundation of the Communist Party. It tells a story of rising class struggle, the founding of the Labour Party, the fight against World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the explosive year of 1919. The book also uses new archival sources to re-examine Marxist organisations such as the British Socialist Party, the Socialist Labour Party, and Sylvia Parkhurst's Workers' Socialist Federation. Above all, this is the story of men and women who fought to liberate the working class from capitalism through socialist revolution.