Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of essays, written for specialists, students, and the educated general reader, aims to highlight usually neglected aspects of the socialist culture: romanticism, utopia, and the religious dimension. Most of these essays deal with methodological issues in political philosophy and the social sciences, and the collection provides a heterodox reintegration of the revolutionary socialist tradition. In addition to Karl Marx, the essays focus on the work of authors belonging to the revolutionary/humanist tendency in Western Marxism: Rosa Luxemburg, Gramsci, Lukacs, and Walter Benjamin.
