Publisher's Synopsis
This collection is designed to answer the demands of students and socialists, teachers and interested readers, for a comprehensive critique of the major schools of European Marxism since the October Revolution. It is composed of a series of carefully documented essays setting out the theories of the major thinkers of the tradition, and submitting them to searching criticism.
Essays include critiques of Luk�cs by Gareth Stedman Jones and Michael L�wy; a survey of the Frankfurt School by G�ran Therborn; an assessment of the legacy of Gramsci, by John Merrington; exposition and criticism of the work of Sartre by Andr� Gorz and Ronald Aronson; major assessments of Althusser by Norman Geras and Andr� Glucksmann and a wide-ranging interview with the Italian philosopher Lucio Colletti that provides an overview of Western Marxism.
