Marx and Marxisms: New Horizons
About the Book Series
The peer-reviewed series Marx and Marxisms: New Horizons' (edited by Marcello Musto, with Francesca Antonini as Assistant Editor) comprises rigorous scholarly books, accessible to general readers, that offer innovative and critical works in the field of Marx studies and Marxisms. The series publishes monographs, edited collections, and anthologies, by both prestigious and emerging international experts, in the fields of political theory, history of political thought, sociology, political philosophy, and heterodox economics. The books in this series provide original investigations within the Marxist tradition, push the boundaries of accepted interpretations and existing literatures, bring different concepts and thinkers into new relationships, and inspire significant conversations for today. They come from a wide range of academic disciplines, subject matters, political perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and geographical areas, producing an eclectic and informative collection that appeals to a diverse and international audience.
Theories of Alienation: From Rousseau to the Present
1st Edition
By Christoph Henning
November 27, 2025
Theories of alienation had a long history, burgeoned since the 1960s, yet almost disappeared in recent decades – but in his book, Christoph Henning brings these theories back on the agenda, to better account for contemporary social pathologies. Feelings of estrangement, of not feeling at home in ...
Historical Materialism: Revisiting the Fundamental Concepts
1st Edition
By Tony Andréani
November 26, 2025
First published in French, this book by Tony Andréani, a prolific French Marxist scholar, summarises decades of research on Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism. Written to further debate among scholars and beyond, Andréani develops the fundamental concepts of the Marxist theory of history...
New Gramscian Paths
1st Edition
By Guido Liguori
November 17, 2025
Guido Liguori’s book Nuovi sentieri gramsciani is at the cutting edge of Gramscian scholarship. Now available in English, this generous book offers a plenitude: biographical, philological, and interpretative advancements in Antonio Gramsci’s political thought to provide new perspectives on key...
Allende and Popular Unity: The Road to Democratic Socialism
1st Edition
By Paula Vidal Molina, Ximena U. Odekerken
October 26, 2025
This book is a fascinating collection of carefully handpicked key texts and speeches from Chile’s 1,000 Days of Revolution, previously unpublished in English. Twenty-three texts embodying the activity of Unidad Popular and Salvador Allende’s government in the early 1970s are structured around five ...
The Revolution is the Emergency Break: Essays on Walter Benjamin
1st Edition
By Michael Löwy
October 26, 2025
Winner of the 2020 European Walter Benjamin Prize, The Revolution is the Emergency Break is a rich discussion of Walter Benjamin’s lesser-known writings by renowned social scientist Michael Löwy. Translated into several languages but available in English for the very first time, Löwy’s book brings ...
A Contemporary History of Marx’s Capital: The Inexhaustible and the Unfinished
1st Edition
By Paolo Favilli
September 02, 2025
Paolo Favilli provides both students and scholars with an original reading of themes and issues found in Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and its connections with present- day challenges. By way of continuous cross- referencing between present and past, Favilli demonstrates that claims regarding the ...
Italian Communist Dissidence and Transnational Trotskyism towards the Fourth International (1928–1938)
1st Edition
By Gabriele Mastrolillo
August 07, 2025
Following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky promoted the birth of an International Anti-Stalinist Communist movement which considered itself in opposition to the Communist International (Comintern). However, since 1933, it began to regard itself as an independent ...
The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852–1933: Meanings and Uses in Context
1st Edition
By Sam Stark
June 19, 2025
The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852–1933 is the first extended political history of Karl Marx’s seminal text. Written largely in an engaging narrative form that centers political actors engaging with the text, the book uses published and archival sources to ...
The Crisis of Marxism: A Historical-Intellectual Problem
1st Edition
By Elías J. Palti
June 08, 2025
In this book, Elías J. Palti analyzes the writings of key thinkers who have theorized the present situation of Marxism: Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, Alain Badiou, and Jacques Derrida. His aim is to interrogate what appears to be the final crisis of ...
Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy: How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939-1979)
1st Edition
By Xavier Domènech Sampere
March 30, 2025
In Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy: How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939–1979), historian Xavier Domènech Sampere tells the story of Franco’s dictatorship, the struggle for freedoms and the foundations on which democracy was shaped. From the perspective of history from below ...
Gramsci and the Southern Question: Global Readings, Interpretations and Uses
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez, Carlo Verri, Tommaso Baris
February 24, 2025
This book looks at the Southern question in Antonio Gramsci. It takes this as an opportunity to reflect on the special nature of his thought, linked to the concepts of hegemony, subalternity and the critique of the particular culturalidentitarian and ideological forms of the South and its ...
Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci: A Missed Encounter
1st Edition
Edited
By Dario Gentili, Elettra Stimilli, Gabriele Guerra
September 03, 2024
This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first time side by side. Benjamin and Gramsci were contemporaries, whose births and deaths took place within a few years of each other in ...