J. Habjan & J. Whyte 
(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy 

(Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Rancière, Latour and Žižek.

Table of Content

Notes on Contributors Introduction; Jernej Habjan and Jessica Whyte 1. A Historical Materialism with Romantic Splinters: Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx; Michael Löwy 2. Adorno’s Account of the Anthropological Crisis and the New Type of Human; Massimiliano Tomba 3. The Republican and the Communist: Arendt Reading Marx (Reading Arendt); Charles Barbour 4. Ricardo – Marx // Foucault – Althusser; Rastko Mo?nik 5. Foucault Against Marxism: Althusser Beyond Althusser; Mark G. E. Kelly 6. Deleuze and Guattari and Minor Marxism; Eugene W. Holland 7. The Grundrisse Beyond Capital ? Negri’s Marx and the Problem of Value; Dave Eden 8. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Jacques Derrida; Jernej Habjan 9. The Visibility of Politics: Jacques Rancière’s Challenge to Marxism; Tim Fisken 10. ‘I, Ideology, Speak.’ Elements of Žižek’s Ideological Prosopopoeia; Simon Hajdini 11. ‘Man Produces Universally’: Praxis and Production in Agamben and Marx; Jessica Whyte 12. The Discreet Charm of Bruno Latour; Benjamin Noys 13. The Fate of the Generic: Marx with Badiou; Bruno Bosteels Index

About the author

Charles Barbour, University of Western Sydney, Australia Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University, USA Dave Eden, University of Queensland, Australia Tim Fisken, University of Birmingham, UK Simon Hajdini, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Eugene W. Holland, Ohio State University, USA Mark G. E. Kelly, Macquarie University, Australia Michael Löwy, CNRS, and Lecturer at EHESS, France Rastko Mo?nik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Benjamin Noys, University of Chichester, UK Massimiliano Tomba, University of Padua, Italy