R. Albritton – författare

In this collection authors from eight different countries, representing a wide variety of academic disciplines and theoretical perspectives, investigate the differing phases of capitalist development. They offer diverse and powerful analyses of the postwar boom, economic crises and globalization within this context.

This text offers an authoritative reassessment of Marxist political economy, perhaps the most significant since Althusser. Original reinterpretations of thinkers including Hegel, Weber, Althusser, Derrida and Adorno illuminate heated battles between Hegelian dialectics and deconstructivist criticism. The book seeks to make accessible the sometimes daunting thought associated with both dialectics and deconstruction drawing upon insights from philosophy, sociology, political science and critical theory. Finding a non essentialist way of using the immense cognitive power of dialectics accepting a limited deconstruction but challenging further deconstructionist directions represents a major breakthrough for political economy.

In this collection authors from eight different countries, representing a wide variety of academic disciplines and theoretical perspectives, investigate the differing phases of capitalist development. They offer diverse and powerful analyses of the postwar boom, economic crises and globalization within this context.

Many of the leading thinkers on dialectics in the Marxian tradition have collaborated here to put forward and debate challenging new perspectives on the nature and importance of dialectics.