Metromarxism

A Marxist Tale of the City
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93348-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

"Metromarxism" discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s to the present by way of biographical chapters on figures from the Marxist tradition, including Marx, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, and David Harvey. Each chapter combines interesting biographical anecdotes with an accessible analysis of each individual's contribution to an always-transforming Marxist theory of the city. He suggests that the interplay between the city as center of economic and social life and its potential for progressive change generated a major corpus of work. That work has been key in advancing progressive political and social transformations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Merrifield, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction1.Karl Marx: Commodities and Cities, With Sober Senses2.Fredrick Engels: Back Street Boy in Manchester3.Walter Benjamin: The City of Profane Illumination4.Henri Lefebvre: The Urban Revolution5. Guy Debord: The City of Marx and Coca-Cola6.Manuel Castells: The City of Althusser and Social Movements7. David Harvey: The Geopolitics of Urbanization8. Marshall Berman: A Marxist URban Romance

Über Autor(innen)

Andy Merrifield is Professor of Geography at Clark University. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford and is the coeditor of The Urbanization of Justice in addition to being a contributor to The Nation and Dissent.