Gavin Kitching is a Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. In addition to Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis (Routledge, 1988) and Marxism and Science: Analysis of an Obsession (Penn State, 1994), he has written books on Africa, Third World development and globalisation. A collection of personal essays, Wittgenstein and Society, will be published in 2003., Nigel Pleasants is Lecturer in Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory: A Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar (Routledge, 1999).

• Introduction, Gavin Kitching; Part 1 Conventional wisdoms; Chapter 1 Ernest Gellner's criticisms of Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy, T.P. Uschanov; Part 2 Commonalities; Chapter 2 Marx and Wittgenstein as natural historians, Ted Schatzki; Chapter 3 Marx and Wittgenstein, David Rubinstein; Chapter 4 Commodity fetishism as a form of life, David Andrews; Chapter 5 Marx, Wittgenstein and postmodernism, Terrell Carver; Part 3 Wittgenstein and Sraffa; Chapter 6 Sraffa's influence on Wittgenstein, Keiran Sharpe; Chapter 7 A Marxist influence on Wittgenstein via Sraffa, John B. Davis; Part 4 Disjunctions; Chapter 8 Wittgenstein, Winch and Marx, Ted Benton; Chapter 9 Towards a critical use of Marx and Wittgenstein, Nigel Pleasants; Part 5 Forerunners; Chapter 10 Towards a Marxian use of Wittgenstein, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi; Chapter 11 Remarks on Marxism and the philosophy of language, Joachim Israel; Part 6 Knowledge, morality and politics; Chapter 12 Marxism and reflexivity, Gavin Kitching; Chapter 13 Marx and Wittgenstein on vampires and parasites, Rupert Read; Chapter 14 Beyond Marx and Wittgenstein, K.T. Fann;