This universalized dialectic – the primacy of process over its constituent moments – is a critical achievement of the first ...

Over the course of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Lebanon has proved the most intractable obstacle to a durable settlement. Throughout, it has been the primary front on which Israel and Iran have ...

John Bayley: Tolstoy and the Novel. Chatto & Windus. 35s. It would be fair to say that the theoretical framework of Tolstoy and the Novel is not materially different from Bayley’s early book The ...

‘Aesthetic’ is commonly defined (see, for example, the Oxford English Dictionary) as having three meanings: (a) received by the senses; (b) referring to beauty; and (c) of superior taste. The last ...

The actual term ‘authoritarian populism’, however, only emerged in 1978 after I read the concluding section to Nicos Poulantzas’s courageous and original book, State, Power, Socialism, which was ...

Iundertook to write this obituary of Louis Althusser for the alumni of the École Normale Supérieure in 1993, nearly three years after the thinker’s death; and not without hesitations and ...

‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the ...

In the 19th century, the father of Italian Marxism was Labriola, who corresponded with Engels and Plekhanov. After the formation of the Third International, its historical centre became Gramsci. Both ...

When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first ...

One of the most dramatic, yet shadowy, events touched upon by Guiseppe Fiori in his Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionaryfootnote 1 is the disagreement between Gramsci on the one hand and Togliatti ...

It seemed that the brightest spark in Africa had been snuffed when the news came through of he Tanganyika-Zanzibar anschluss. But it is now possible to be somewhat more sanguine. First, the past.

In 1968, Perry Anderson drew attention to the bizarre role and status of literary criticism in the ‘national culture’; in a context in which the social sciences and historical disciplines were ...