Adventures in Marxism
"At the heart of Berman's commitment to Marxism is an understanding that, if the philosophy is to enjoy a continuing relevance in the coming century, it will have to move beyond its current casting as a critical tool or an occasional literary pleasure. The emancipatory potential of Marxism, its capacity to configure a world beyond the daily grind of selling one's labor to stay alive, needs to be renewed."--BOOK JACKET. "In these chapters are discussions of work on Marx and Marxism by Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Meyer Schapiro, Edmund Wilson, Jerrold Siegel, James Billington, Irving Howe and Isaac Babel, commentary on writers such as Perry Anderson and Studs Terkel, and an appreciation of the inestimable contributions of Frederick Engels and Marx himself. All are brought together in a single embrace by Berman's spirited appreciation of Marxism as expressive, playful, sometimes even a little vulgar, but always an adventure."--Jacket
xi, 273 pages ; 20 cm
9781859847343, 185984734X
222529209
Introduction
Caught Up in the Mix: Some Adventures in Marxism
1. Marx: The Dancer and the Dance
2. Freedom and Fetishism
3. Still Waiting at the Station
4. Studs Terkel: Living in the Mural
5. The People in Capital
6. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: Marx, Modernism and Modernization
7. The Signs in the Street
8. From Paris to Gdansk
9. Georg Lukacs's Cosmic Chutzpah
10. Isaac Babel: Waiting for the Barbarians
11. Meyer Schapiro: The Presence of the Subject
12. Walter Benjamin: Angel in the City
13. Unchained Melody