MARXISM READING LIST

Karl Marx (1818 - 1883):

• A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859)

• Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (1857-1858)

• The German Ideology (1845-1846)

• Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)

Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895):

• Letters to Lasalle, Kautsky, Harkness, Bloch and Mehring

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)

V. I. Lenin (1870 - 1924):

• Essays on Tolstoy (collected in Marxists on Literature: an Anthology, ed. David Craig.  346-362)

• The State and Revolution (1917)

• Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916)

• Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1909)

• What is to be Done? (1902)

Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940):

• Literature and Revolution (1923)

Georg Lukács (1885 - 1971):

• "The Ideology of Modernism" (1955)

• "Art and Objective Truth" (1954)

• The Historical Novel (1937)

• "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923)

• "Class Consciousness" (1920)

• "What is Orthodox Marxism?" (1919)

• The Theory of the Novel (1916)

Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937):

• Prison Notebooks (1929-1935):

  • Selections from Cultural Writings:

    • "Normative Grammar" (184-187)

    • "Concept of National-Popular" (206-212)

  • Selections from Prison Notebooks:

    • "The Intellectuals" (3-23)

    • "History of the Subaltern Classes: Methodological Criteria" (52-55)

    • "State and Civil Society" (206-276)

    • "The Study of Philosophy" (321-377)

Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940):

• "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940)

• "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936)

• "The Author as Producer" (1934)

• "On Language as Such and on the Language of Man" (1916)

Christopher Caudwell (1907 - 1937):

• Illusion and Reality: a Study of the Sources of Poetry (1937)

Lucien Goldmann (1913 - 1970):

• "The Epistemology of Sociology" (1967)

• "The Genetic Structuralist Method in the History of Literature" (1964)

• "Introduction to the Problems of a Sociology of the Novel" (1963)

Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988):

• Marxism and Literature (1977)

• "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory" (1973)

• Culture and Society, 1780-1950 (1958)

Pierre Bourdieu (1930 - 2002):

• Homo Academicus (1984)

• The Logic of Practice (1980)

• Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (1979)

• Outline of a Theory of Practice (1972)

• Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (1970)

Frederic Jameson (1934 - ):

• see Structuralist Marxism Reading List

Terry Eagleton (1943 - ):

• see Structuralist Marxism Reading List

Franco Moretti (1950 - ):

• Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005)

• Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms (1983)

Frankfurt School of Critical Theory

Max Horkheimer (1895 - 1971):

• Dialectic of Enlightenment (By Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno) (1944)

• "The Social Function of Philosophy" (1939)

• "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" ()

• "Materialism and Metaphysics" ()

• "Notes on Science and the Crisis" ()

• "Traditional and Critical Theory" ()

Herbert Marcuse (1898 - 1979):

• Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory (1941): Parts I and II

• "Philosophy and Critical Theory" (1937)

• "The Foundation of Historical Materialism" (1932)

Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980):

• "The Method and Function of an Analytic Social Psychology: Notes on Psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism" (1932)

• "Psychoanalysis and Sociology" (1929)

Leo Lowenthal (1900 - 1993):

• "On the Sociology of Literature" (1932)

Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969):

• Negative Dialectics (1966)

• Dialectic of Enlightenment (By Adorno and Max Horkheimer) (1944)

Jurgen Habermas (1929 - ):

• "Hermeneutic and Analytic Philosophy: Two Complementary Versions of the Linguistic Turn?" (1999)

• The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (1985)

• The Theory of Communicative Action (2 Vols.) (1981)

• "The Hermeneutic Claim to Universality" (1973)

• "Hermeneutics and the Social Sciences" (1970)

• Knowledge and Human Interests (1968)

• "The Public Sphere: an Encyclopedia" (1964)

See also:

• Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle) Reading List

• Structuralist Marxism Reading List