Overview
- Provides the "missing link" between postcolonialism and studies of Marx
- Offers a comprehensive overview on Marx’s engagement with non-European societies
- Concludes with a "roundtable" discussion chapter that includes historians, political scientists and philosophers
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book mediates between postcolonial positions that criticize Marxist approaches (and Marx’s writings) for their Eurocentrism and defenders of Marx, who claim that this accusation is a myth. In different contributions to this volume, Kolja Lindner pleads for a differentiated assessment of the whole of Marx’s work, including less known manuscripts, and a theoretical reconstruction of various elements that have come into the focus of postcolonial critique: ethnocentrism, Orientalism, false universalism and the oblivion of modernity’s global entanglement. Against this background, two opportunities simultaneously arise: Marx’s Eurocentrism can be deconstructed and his growing awareness of global developments and cosmopolitan struggles established.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kolja Lindner is Lecturer in the Departments of German Studies and Political Science, University Paris 8, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marx, Marxism and the Question of Eurocentrism
Authors: Kolja Lindner
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81823-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81822-7Published: 14 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81825-8Published: 15 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81823-4Published: 13 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 168
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Development and Post-Colonialism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Postcolonial Philosophy, Political Sociology