Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century: Reflections and Revaluations

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• ISBN 10:3030971384
• ISBN 13: 9783030971380
• Author:Terrell Carver

This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than “junior partner” to Karl Marx or “second fiddle” in the Marxist orchestra. The nineteen critical essays in this collection are the work of scholars from Germany, USA, UK, Italy, China, India, Mexico and the Philippines. Together they present and evaluate archival material and scholarly commentary that covers epistemology, political economy, political theory, gender studies, cultural studies, political geography, philosophy of social science and sociological studies of class-conflict. Students, activists and specialists will find fresh consideration of familiar works, such as The Condition of the Working Class in England, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and The Dialectics of Nature. They will also be able to explore Engels’s less familiar pamphleteering, literary criticism and political commentary through detailed contextualization andcareful analysis. Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century: Perspectives and Problems is unique in putting different intellectual and political receptions of Engels’s work into productive conversation, particularly from non-Anglophone scholars, translated here into English. Readers will appreciate why Engels has been so widely celebrated some two hundred years after his birth.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

Part I. Epistemology and Philosophy of Nature

2. Engels and the Dialectic of Nature

3. Engels and the “Dialectics of Nature”

4. Was Engels a Dialectical Materialist?

5. Engels and the End of Philosophy

Part II. Political Economy

6. Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy: The is/Ought Question

7. The Young Engels and the Critique of Capitalism: His Influence on the Young Marx

8. Engels on the “External Market” and “Deindustrialization”

Part III. The Condition of the Working Class

9. The Constitution of the Proletariat: Bringing Together Friedrich Engels, Edward P. Thompson and Michael Vester

10. The Question of Housing Revisited

Part IV. Theorizing Power

11. Engels Theorizes Gender Hierarchy in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

12. The Concept of Power in Engels’s Theory of the State

13. Re-Reading Engels in the Twenty-First Century: State, Nationalism, and Internationalism

Part V. Engels and Literature

14. The Proletariat and the “People”: Engels and the “Social Prose” of the 1840s

15. Engels’s Philosophical Mock-Epic: The Triumph of Faith

16. Engels and German Literature: A Political History to the Present

Part VI. Emancipation—Revolution—Communism

17. Engels on Post-capitalist Society: Continuity or Discontinuity with Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism?

18. Engels and the Remaking of Communism in the Twenty-First Century

19. Afterword: Whither Engels?

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