Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis and Imre Szeman (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, 2019 ✓

The challenge was both

• not to miss in 2018 the anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx (1818)
• and to publish a collection of studies of a good scientific level about his work.

These two objectives are difficult to reconcile and, in this case, it is clear that only the first has more or less been achieved. (Date is 2019 in print, but 27-12-2018 on the publisher’s website. Producing the book as a thing takes some time. The book seems to have been ready to print in October 2018.) The level of the articles is quite uneven. Some are very good; some, although weaker, are still interesting, stimulating. Some are rather poor (to be polite) or much worse and should never have been published. “Written by an international team of leading Marx scholars”, in the aforementioned web page. International, indeed; leading Marx scholars, not all of them.

• • Preface, Wolfgang Fritz Haug
  • Introduction, Andrew Pendakis, Imre Szeman and Jeff Diamanti
• Part I Key Writings
  • A. Key Texts
    • Introduction to a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843–1844) — Jerilyn Sambrooke Losch
    • The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (1844) — Judith Grant
    • “Theses on Feuerbach” (1845–1846) — Andrew Pendakis
    • The German Ideology — Anna Kornbluh
    • The Communist Manifesto (1848) — Peter Lamb
    • The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) — Gavin Walker
    • The Grundrisse (1858) — Nick Nesbitt
    • A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) — Simon Choat
    • Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I (1867) — Harry Cleaver
    • The Civil War in France (1871) — Franco Berardi
    • “Critique of the Gotha Program” (1875) — Andrew Pendakis
• Part II Context
  • B. Philosophical and Historical Context
    • Materialism and the Natural Sciences — Maurizia Boscagli
    • The Christian State — Roland Boer
    • Liberalism and its Discontents — Terrell Carver
    • Philosophical Constellations — Christian Thorne
    • Nineteenth-Century Social Theory — Corbin Hiday
    • Industry, Technology, Energy — Bob Johnson
    • Engels — Jordan Kinder
  • C. Sources and Influences
    • Ancient Philosophy — Aaron Jaffe and Cinzia Arruzza
    • Hegelianism — Andrew Cole
    • Political Economy — Radhika Desai
    • French Socialism and Communism — Jonathan Beecher
    • Marx’s German and British Political Encounters — William Clare Roberts
• Part III Key Themes and Topics
  • D. Key Themes and Topics
    • Abstraction Leigh — Claire La Berge
    • Accumulation — Sean O’Brien
    • Alienation — Timothy Bewes
    • Base and Superstructure — Edgar Illas
    • Capital — Elena Louisa Lange
    • Circulation — Atle Mikkola Kjøsen
    • Crisis — Joshua Clover
    • Dialectics — Carolyn Lesjak
    • Exploitation — Matt Cole
    • Fetishism — James Penney
    • History and Class Struggle — Peter Hitchcock
    • Ideology — Tanner Mirrlees
    • Imperialism — Tanner Mirrlees
    • Mediation Ruth Jennison
    • Mode of Production — Jason Read
    • Nature and Ecology — Philip Campanile and Michael Watts
    • Primitive Accumulation — Jordy Rosenberg
    • Profit — Alan Freeman
    • Property — Christian Schmidt
    • Religion — Jan Rehmann
    • Reproduction — Amy De’Ath
    • Revolutionary Communism — Peter Hudis
    • Revolutionary Strategy — Peter Hallward
    • Social Relations — Kevin Floyd
    • Utopia — Gerry Canavan
    • Value — Mathias Nilges
    • Work — David Ravensbergen
• Part IV Reception and Influence
  • E. Marx after Marx
    • Soviet Union and Eastern Europe — Joseph Grim Feinberg
    • Latin America — Emilio Sauri
    • China — Rebecca Karl
    • Japan — Gavin Walker
    • Western Europe — Jan Kandiyali
    • The Arab World — Jaafar Aksikas
    • India — Dhruv Jain
    • Africa — Priya Lal
    • North America — Tanner Mirrlees
    • Indigenous Internationalisms — Deena Rymhs
  • F. Contemporary Theory and Philosophy
    • Literature and Culture — Sarah Brouillette
    • Cultural Studies — Jaafar Aksikas
    • Ecology and Environmentalism — Danijela Dolenec
    • Gender and Feminism — Leopoldina Fortunati
    • Geography — Matthew Huber
    • Materialisms — David Chandler
    • Philosophy — Panagiotis Sotiris
    • Political Economy — Justin Paulson
    • Political Theory — Bruno Bosteels
    • Psychoanalysis — Kiarina Kordela
    • Racism Barbara — Foley
    • Sociology — Samir Gandesha
    • Technology — McKenzie Wark
    • Uneven Development — Harry Harootunian