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Reexamining Engels’s Legacy in the 21st Century

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Editors:
  1. Kohei Saito

    1. Department of Economics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

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  • Offers a critical re-examination of Engels’s philosophy and critical economy based on the new complete edition, Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe
  • Considers key issues in contemporary society previously neglected in Engels scholarship such as ecology, gender, and anthropology
  • Provides a comprehensive, fresh, original interpretation of the text through philological attention for the different editions of the work

Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  3. Engels and Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Engels, Thinking and Being

      • Tom Rockmore
      Pages 47-67

    3. Engels’s Conception of Dialectics in the Plan 1878 of Dialectics of Nature

      • Kaan Kangal
      Pages 69-87

  4. Engels and Crisis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Engels’s Theory of Economic Crisis

      • Timm Graßmann
      Pages 91-114

    3. Metabolism, Crisis, and Elasticity

      • Kohei Saito
      Pages 115-135

    4. Engels’s Concept of Alternatives to Capitalism

      • Seongjin Jeong
      Pages 137-167

  5. Engels at the Margins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Engels as an Ecologist

      • Camilla Royle
      Pages 171-193

    3. Engels and Gender

      • Heather A. Brown
      Pages 195-213

    4. Engels and the Irish Question: Rethinking the Relationship between the Peasants and Socialism

      • Soichiro Sumida
      Pages 215-236

    5. Engels’s Legacy to Anthropology

      • Thomas C. Patterson
      Pages 237-256

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 257-271
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About this book

While the deepening structural crisis of capitalism in the 21st century has led to a revival of interest in Marx all over the world, Marx’s life-long comrade Frederick Engels has largely remained marginalized. To commemorate the bicentenary of Engels birth, this edited collection aims to rectify this gap in academic scholarship by gathering a diverse group of scholars to consider the legacy of Engels’s thought and work and critically examine his theoretical relevance in today’s world. The contributors of this volume provide new, stimulating reading of Engels’s works to revive some of Engels’s key ideas. The Legacy of Engels in the 21st Century integrates the most recent discoveries and achievements of Marxian scholarship, employing the historical-critical method developed in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe to shed light on the forgotten aspects of Engel's critique of capitalism and vision of postcapitalism. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

    Kohei Saito

About the editor

Kohei Saito is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Osaka City University, Japan. 

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