Marx & Philosophy Review of Books http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/50 The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books publishes online reviews of books in the area of Marxism and philosophy, interpreted broadly as regards both 'Marxism' and 'philosophy'. en Marx & Philosophy Review of Books 120 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/assets/templates/marxandphilosophy/images/favicon-mprb.png Marx & Philosophy Review of Books http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/50 16 16 The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books publishes online reviews of books in the area of Marxism and philosophy, interpreted broadly as regards both 'Marxism' and 'philosophy'. Hegel, Haiti and Universal History http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/160 Review by Philip Cunliffe

Susan Buck-Morss
Hegel, Haiti and Universal History.
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2009, £15.50 pb
ISBN 9780822959786

]]> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:09:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/160 Philip Cunliffe Dissensus http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/173 Review by David W. Hill

Jacques Rancière
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics
Edited and Translated by Steven Corcoran. Continuum, London, 2010. 230pp., £14.99
ISBN 9781847064455

]]> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:07:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/173 David W. Hill Pocket Pantheon | Badiou’s Being and Event http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/170 Review by Iain MacKenzie

Alain Badiou
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy
Translated by David Macey, Verso, London and New York, 2009. xii+196 pp., £9.99 hb
ISBN 9781844673575

Christopher Norris
Badiou’s Being and Event: A Reader’s Guide
Continuum, London and New York, 2009. 316 pp., £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780826498298

]]> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:54:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/170 Iain MacKenzie Capitalist Realism http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/166 Review by Steven Sherman

Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Zero Books, Ropley, Hampshire, 2009. 92pp., £7.99 pb
ISBN 9781846943171

]]> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:36:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/166 Steven Sherman Capitalism and the Dialectic http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/163 Review by Jelle Versieren

John R. Bell
Capitalism and the Dialectic: The Uno-Sekine Approach to Marxian Political Economy
Pluto Press, London, 2009, 256pp, £25 pb
ISBN 9780745329338

]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:24:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/163 Jelle Versieren Reflections on Empire | Empire and Beyond http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/154 Review by John McSweeney

Antonio Negri
Reflections on Empire
Translated by Ed Emery. Polity, Cambridge, 2008. 202pp., £15.99 pb
ISBN 9780745637051

Antonio Negri
Empire and Beyond
Translated by Ed Emery. Polity, Cambridge, 2008. 239pp., £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780745640488

]]> Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:40:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/154 John McSweeney The Aesthetic Unconscious http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/150 Review by Owen Hulatt

Jacques Rancière
The Aesthetic Unconscious
Translated by Debra Keates and James Swenson, Polity, Cambridge, 2009. 95pp., £9.99 hb
ISBN 9780745646435

]]> Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:40:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/150 Owen Hulatt Heidegger, Work and Being http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/157 Review by Robert Farrow

Todd S. Mei
Heidegger, Work and Being
Continuum, London & New York, 2009. 177pp. £65 hb
ISBN 9781847063724

]]> Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:38:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/157 Robert Farrow Marxism and Ecological Economics http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/147 Review by Gerry Gold and Steven Harris

Paul Burkett
Marxism and Ecological Economics: Toward a Red and Green Political Economy
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2009. 332pp., $28.00 pb
ISBN 9781608460250

]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:59:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/147 Gerry Gold and Steven Harris The Idea of Justice http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/144 Review by David Marjoribanks

Amartya Sen
The Idea of Justice
Allen Lane, London, 2009. 468pp. £25.00hb
ISBN 9781846141478

]]> Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:46:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/144 David Marjoribanks Rescuing Justice and Equality | Why Not Socialism? http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/125 Review by Peter Amato

G.A. Cohen
Rescuing Justice and Equality
Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2008. xvii + 430pp., £29.95 hb
ISBN 978067403076

G.A. Cohen
Why Not Socialism?
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2009. 83pp., £10.95 hb
ISBN 9780691143613

]]> Wed, 26 May 2010 08:57:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/125 Peter Amato Fanaticism http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/133 Review by Tom Eyers

Alberto Toscano
Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea
Verso, London and New York, 2010. 304pp., £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781844674244

]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 08:59:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/133 Tom Eyers Bonfire of Illusions http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/139 Review by Daniel Whittall

Alex Callinicos
Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World
Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010, 179pp, £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780745648767

]]> Mon, 24 May 2010 16:42:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/139 Daniel Whittall Adorno’s Concept of Life http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/136 Review by Rich Daniels

Alastair Morgan
Adorno’s Concept of Life
Continuum, New York and London, 2007. 163 pp., £70 hb
ISBN 9780826496133

]]> Mon, 24 May 2010 15:53:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/136 Rich Daniels The Frock-Coated Communist http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/129 Review by Terrell Carver

Tristram Hunt
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Allen Lane, London, 2009. xvi + 443 pp., £25 hb
ISBN 9780713998528

]]> Mon, 24 May 2010 13:07:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/129 Terrell Carver Between Naturalism and Religion http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/122 Review by Paula Cerni

Jürgen Habermas
Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays
Translated by Ciaran Cronin. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2008. 361pp., £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780745638256

]]> Mon, 24 May 2010 12:17:00 +0100 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/122 Paula Cerni The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir | The Second Sex http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/104 Review by Mary Evans

Penelope Deutscher
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversation, Resistance
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008. xi + 199pp., £45 hb
ISBN 9780521885201

Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Jonathan Cape, London, 2009. 848pp., £30 hb
ISBN 9780224078597

]]> Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:05:00 +0000 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/104 Mary Evans The Ecological Revolution http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/108 Review by Ted Benton

John Bellamy Foster
The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2009. 288pp., $17.95 pb
ISBN 9781583671795

]]> Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:03:00 +0000 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/108 Ted Benton Karl Marx’s Philosophy of Nature, Action and Society http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/114 Review by Ishay Landa

Justin P. Holt
Karl Marx’s Philosophy of Nature, Action and Society: A New Analysis
Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009. xii + 190pp., £34.99 hb
ISBN 9781443805513

]]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:04:00 +0000 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/114 Ishay Landa Work http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/111 Review by Rajeev Sehgal

Lars Svendsen
Work
Acumen, Stocksfield, 2008. 138pp., £10.99 pb
ISBN 9781844651542

]]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:51:00 +0000 http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/111 Rajeev Sehgal