MARXISM READING LIST
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)
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)
Literature and Revolution (1923)
"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)
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
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)
"The Method and Function of an Analytic Social Psychology: Notes on Psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism" (1932)
"Psychoanalysis and Sociology" (1929)
"On the Sociology of Literature" (1932)
Negative Dialectics (1966)
Dialectic of Enlightenment (By Adorno and Max Horkheimer) (1944)
"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)
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