From Marxism to Post-Marxism?

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On sale May 01, 2018 | 208 Pages | 9781788732451
A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics

In this pithy and panoramic work—both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the general reader—one of the world's leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, traces the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and anticipates its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first.
Göran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is also the former Co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences at Uppsala. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages. Since his retirement from Cambridge in 2010, he has lived at Ljungbyholm, in southeast Sweden.

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A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics

In this pithy and panoramic work—both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the general reader—one of the world's leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, traces the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and anticipates its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first.

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Göran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is also the former Co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences at Uppsala. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages. Since his retirement from Cambridge in 2010, he has lived at Ljungbyholm, in southeast Sweden.

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