HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Sičcle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Audience

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

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Sub-Schools:

Feminist:

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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2008:

2007:

  • Afternoon Seminar, Marx and Philosophy Society, Institute of Education, University of London, October 13

  • The Justification of Socialism, Fourth Annual Conference, Marx and Philosophy Society, Institute of Education, University of London, May 19

  • Materials and Materialisms, Radical Philosophy conference, University of London, Birkbeck College, May 12

  • Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future: Critical Theory, John Cabot University, Rome, April 27-29

  • Phenomenology and Critical Theory, 25th Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University, March 16-17

2006:

  • Afternoon Seminar, Marx and Philosophy Society, October 21

  • Marxist Philosophy: Chinese and Western Perspectives, Department of Philosophy, Flinders University, July 14-15

  • Annual Institute on Culture and Society, Marxist Literary Group, Georgetown University, June 8-12

  • Third Annual Conference, Marx and Philosophy Society, Institute of Education, University of London, May 27

  • Critical Theory: Fundamental Questions, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, May 5

  • Afternoon Seminar, Marx and Philosophy Society, Royal Holloway College, University of London, February 25

2005:

  • The Representation of Capital 1700-2000: Speculation and Displacement, Institute for Commonwealth Studies and Institute for English Studies, University of London, September 14 - 17 September, 2005

  • Second Annual Conference, Marx and Philosophy Society, Institute of Education, University of London, September 10

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2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

1999:

1998:

1996:

Annual:

  • Annual Conference, Marx and Philosophy Society

  • Annual Institute on Culture and Society, Marxist Literary Group

COURSES

Frankfurt School:

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Frankfurt School:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • General:
      • Gottlieb, Roger S., ed.  An Anthology of Western Marxism: from Lukács and Gramsci to Socialist Feminism.  Oxford: OUP, 1989.

      • Marx, K., F. Engels, and V. Lenin.  On Communist Society: a Collection.  Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974.

      • Marx, K., F. Engels, and V. Lenin.  On Historical Materialism: a Collection.  New York: International, 1972.

    • Frankfurt School:

      • Arato, Andrew, and Eike Gebhardt, eds.  The Essential Frankfurt School Reader.  New York: Continuum, 1982.

      • Bronner, Stephen Eric, and Douglas Kellner, eds.  Critical Theory and Society: a Reader.  London: Routledge, 1989.
      • Ingram, David, and Julia Simon-Ingram, eds.  Critical Theory: the Essential Readings.  Paragon, 1990.

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

        • Craig, David, ed.  Marxists on Literature: an Anthology.  

        • Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
        • Eagleton, Terry, and Drew Milne, eds.  Marxist Literary CriticismOxford: Blackwell, 1996.
        • Gorky, Maxim, et al.  Problems of Soviet Literature: Reports and Speeches at the First Soviet Writers' Congress, 1934.  New York: International, 1935.

        • Jameson, Frederic, ed.  Aesthetics and Politics: Debates Between Bloch, Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno.  London: New Left Books, 1977.

        • Mulhern, Francis, ed.  Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism.  London: Longman, 1992. 

        • Solomon, Maynard, ed.  Marxism and Art: Essays Classic and Contemporary.  1973.

      • Being:

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      • Communication:

      • Human Nature:

      • Knowledge:

        • Eagleton, Terry, ed.  Ideology.  
        • London: Longman, 1994.
      • Morality:

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      • Nature:

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      • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Religion:

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      • Society:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:

    • Frankfurt School:

      • Neumann, Franz.  Behemoth: the Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944.  Rev. ed. 1944.
      • Rose, Gillian. 

      • Wellmer, Albrecht.  Critical Theory of Society.  1971.
    • Topics:
      • Arts:

        • Berger, John.  Ways of Seeing.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.

        • Gorky, Maxim.  "Comments on Socialist Realism."  Documents of Modern Literary Realism.  Ed. George J. Becker.  Princeton: Princeton UP, .  486-488.

        • Plekhanov, George V.  Art and Social Life.

        • Radek, Karl.  "Contemporary World Literature and the Tasks of Proletarian Art."  Gorky, Maxim, et al.  Problems of Soviet Literature: Reports and Speeches at the First Soviet Writers' Congress, 1934.  New York: International, 1935.  Rpt. in Dramatic Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Bernard F. Dukore.  New York: Harcourt BRace Jovanoovich, .  964-969.

        • Zdhanov, Andrei A.  Essays on Literature, Philosophy, and Music.  1950.

        • Zdhanov, Andrei A.  "Soviet Literature: the Richest in Ideas, the Most Advanced Literature."  Gorky, Maxim, et al.  Problems of Soviet Literature: Reports and Speeches at the First Soviet Writers' Congress, 1934.  New York: International, 1935.  Rpt. in Dramatic Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Bernard F. Dukore.  New York: Harcourt BRace Jovanoovich, .  960-964.

        • Zima, Peter V.  Pour une sociologie du texte littéraire.  Paris: Union Générale d'Editions, 1978. 

        • Zima, Peter.  Semiotics and Dialectics: Ideology and the Text

      • Being:

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      • Communication:

      • Human Nature:

      • Knowledge:

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      • Morality:

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      • Nature:

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      • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Religion:

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      • Society:

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • General:
      • Bottomore, Tom, ed.  Modern Interpretations of Marx.  Oxford: Blackwell, .
      • Bottomore, Tom, ed.  A Dictionary of Marxist Thought.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1983.
      • Burns, Tony, and Ian Fraser, eds.  The Hegel-Marx Connection.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
      • Drachkovitch, Milorad, ed.  Marxist Ideology in the Contemporary World: its Appeals and Paradoxes.  New York: , 1966.
      • Drachkovitch, Milorad, ed.  Marxism and the Modern World.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1965.
      • Mepham, John, and David-Hillel Ruben, eds.  Issues in Marxist Philosophy.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1979.
    • Frankfurt School:

      • Kompridis, Nicolas, ed.  Rethinking Critical Theory: Habermas and BeyondInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 13.3 (2005).  (available here)
      • O'Neill, John, ed.  On Critical Theory.  1976.
      • Rasmussen, David, ed.  Handbook of Critical Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

      • Rush, Fred, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory.  Cambridge: CUP, 2005.

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

        • Nelson, Cary, and Lawrence Grossberg, eds.  Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988.

        • Routh, Jane, and Janet Wolff, eds.  The Sociology of Literature: Theoretical Approaches.  Keele: U of Keele P, 1977.
      • Being:

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      • Communication:

      • Human Nature:

      • Knowledge:

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      • Morality:

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      • Nature:

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      • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Religion:

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      • Society:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:

      • Anderson, Kevin.  Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: a Critical Study.  Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

      • Anderson, Perry.  Spectrum: from Right to Left in the World of Ideas.  London: Verso, 2008.
      • Anderson, Perry.  "Modernity and Revolution."  Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture.  Ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988.  317-338.
      • Anderson, Perry.  In the Tracks of Historical Materialism.  London: Verso, 1983.
      • Anderson, Perry.  Arguments Within English Marxism.  London: Verso, 1980.
      • Aronowitz, Stanley.  The Crisis in Historical Materialism: Class, Politics, and Culture in Marxist Theory.  New York: Praeger, 1981.
      • Colletti, Lucio.  Marxism and Hegel.  London: New Left, 1973.
      • Dupré, Louis.  "Recent Literature on Marx and Marxism."  Journal of the History of Ideas 35 (1974): 703-714.
      • Goldstein, Philip.  Post-Marxist Theory: an Introduction.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2005.

      • Gottfried, Paul Edward.  The Strange Death of Marxism: the European Left in the New Millennium.  Minneapolis: U of Missouri P, 2005.

      • Hunt, Ian.  Analytical and Dialectical Marxism.  Aldershot: Avebury, 1993.
      • Kolakowski, Leszek.  1976.

        • Main Currents of Marxism.  3 Vols.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.  Rpt. in one vol. New York: Norton, .

          • The Breakdown.  Vol. 3.

          • The Golden Age.  Vol. 2.

          • The Founders.  Vol. 1.

      • Kelly, Michael.  "Philosophies of Marxism: Lenin, Lukács, Gramsci, Althusser."  Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy.  Vol. 8 of The Routledge History of Philosophy.  Ed. Richard Kearney.  London: Routledge, 1994.  222-253.
      • Kelly, M.  Modern French Marxism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

      • Lerner, Warren.  A History of Socialism and Communism in Modern Times.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.

      • Lichtheim, George.  From Marx to Hegel.  1971.

      • Lichtheim, George.  The Concept of Ideology, and Other Essays.  New York: Random House, 1967.

      • Lichtheim, George.  Marxism: an Historical and Critical Study.  London: , 1961.

      • Matthews, Eric.  "Three French Marxists."  Twentieth Century French Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.  108-134.

      • Merquior, J. G. Western Marxism.  London: Paladin, 1986.
      • Plamenatz, John.  German Marxism and Russian Communism.  London and New York: , 1954.
      • Popper, Karl.  The Open Society and its Enemies.  2 Vols.  London: Kegan Paul, 1945.
      • Poster, Mark.  Foucault, Marxism and History.  Polity, 1984.
      • Sayers, Sean.  Marxism and Human Nature.  London: Routledge, 1998.
      • Schroeder, William.  "Marx and Western Marxism."  Continental Philosophy: a Critical Approach.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.  60-92.

      • West, David.  "Dialectics of Emancipation: Marx, the Frankfurt School and Habermas."  An Introduction to Continental Philosophy.  Cambridge: Polity, 1996.  42-78.

      • Wolfe, Bertram.  Marxism: One Hundred Years in the Life of a Doctrine.  New York: , 1965.
    • Frankfurt School:

      • Benhabib, Seyla.  Critique, Norm, Utopia: a Study of the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory.  New York: Columbia UP, 1986.

      • Bottomore, Tom.  The Frankfurt School and its Critics.  London: Tavistock, 1984.

      • Bowie, Andrew.  "Critical Theory."  Introduction to German Philosophy: from Kant to Habermas.  Cambridge: Polity, 2003.  222-245.

      • Bronner, Stephen Eric.  Of Critical Theory and its Theorists.  1994.
      • Brosio, Richard A.  The Frankfurt School: an Analysis of the Contradictictions and Crises of Liberal Capitalist Societies.  1980.
      • Buck-Morss, Susan.  The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute.  NY: Free Press, 1977.
      • Brosia, Richard A.  The Frankfurt School: an Analysis of the Contradictions and Crises of Liberal Capitalist Society.  Muncie, IND: Ball State UP, 1980.

      • Connerton, Paul.  The Tragedy of Enlightenment: an Essay on the Frankfurt School1980.

      • Dews, Peter.  Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory.  London: Verso, 1987.

      • Dubiel, H.  Theory and Politics: Studies in the Development of Critical Theory.  Trans. B. Gregg.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.

      • Friedman, George.  The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School.  1981.

      • Geuss, Raymond.  The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School.  Cambridge: CUP, 1981.

      • Held, David.  Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas.  Berkekely: U of California P, 1981.

      • Jay, Martin.  Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America.  New York: Columbia UP, 1986.

      • Jay, Martin.  Marxism and Totality: the Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.

      • Jay, Martin.  The Dialectical Imagination: a History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.  Rpt. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.

      • Kellner, Douglas.  Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.

      • Pensky, Max.  "Third Generation Critical Theory."  A Companion to Continental PhilosophyEd. Simon Critchley and William R. SchroederOxford: Blackwell, 1998.  407-416.
      • Poster, Mark.  Critical Theory and Poststructuralism: in Search of a Context.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989.
      • Schirmacher, Wolfgang.  German 20th Century Philosophy: the Frankfurt School.  London: Continuum, .

      • Schroeder, William.  "Marx and Western Marxism."  Continental Philosophy: a Critical Approach.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.  60-92.

      • Sedgwick, Peter.  "The Frankfurt School: Horkheimer and Adorno."  Descartes to Derrida: an Introduction to European Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.  78-95.

      • Sherman, David.  "Critical Theory."  The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Robert Solomon and David L. Sherman.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.  188-218.

      • Snedeker, .  The Politics of Critical Theory: Language / Discourse / Society.  Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2004.

      • Tar, Zoltan.  The Frankfurt School: the Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.  1977.

      • West, David.  "Dialectics of Emancipation: Marx, the Frankfurt School and Habermas."  An Introduction to Continental Philosophy.  Cambridge: Polity, 1996.  42-78.

      • Wiggerhaus, Rolf.  The Frankfurt School: its History, Theories, and Political Significance.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.

      • Wolin, Richard.  "The Frankfurt School Revisited," and Other Essays on Politics and Society.  London: Routledge, 2006.

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

        • Arvon, Henri.  Marxist Esthetics

        • Bennett, Tony.  Formalism and Marxism.  London: Methuen, 1979.

        • Bennett, Tony.  Outside Literature.  London: Routledge, 1990.

        • Bernstein, J. M.  Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006.
        • Bisztray, George.  Marxist Models of Literary Realism.  New York: Columbia UP, 1978.
        • Bowie, Andrew.  From Romanticism to Critical Theory: the Philosophy of German Literary Theory.  London: Routledge, 1996.
        • Bullock, Chris, and David Peck.   Guide to Marxist Literary Criticism.  1980.

        • Demetz, Peter.  1959.

          • Marx, Engels and the Poets: Origins of Marxist Literary Criticism.  Trans. J. L. Sammons.  1967. 

        • Dentith, Simon.  "Marxism and Literary Criticism."  The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  368-376.

        • Eagleton, Terry.  Marxism and Literary Criticism.  London: Methuen, 1976.

        • Forgacs, David.  "Marxist Literary Theories."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  London: Batsford, 1982.  134-169.

        • Goldstein, Philip.  The Politics of Literary Theory: an Introduction to Marxist Criticism.  1990.
        • Harland, Richard.  "The Beginnings of Sociological Criticism: Taine and Marx."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  90-95. 
        • Harland, Richard.  "Marxism and Literary Theory."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  137-145.
        • Laing, Dave.  The Marxist Theory of Art: an Introductory Survey.  1978.

        • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Leftist Criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  366-408.

        • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Marxist Criticism in the 1930s."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  1-23.

        • Lunn, Eugene.  Marxism and Modernism: an Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1982.
        • Selden, Raman.  "Marxist Theories."  A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985.  24-50.
        • Slaughter, Cliff.  Marxism, Ideology and Literature.  1980.
        • Stacy, Robert H.  Russian Literary Criticism: a Short History.  1974.
        • Williams, Raymond.  Marxism and Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1977.
      • Being:

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      • Communication:

      • Human Nature:

        • Williams, Caroline.  "Marxism and Subjectivity: from Lukacs to Althusser."  Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Pers