Is Western Marxism Western? The Cases of Gramsci and Tosaka by Takahiro Chino

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Rudi Dutschke and György Lukács on the Problems of the Bolshevik Type Socialism by Sviatoslav V. Shachin, László G. Szücs

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Tillbaka till Hegel! by Anders Burman

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La cuestión de la crítica en la teoría marxista The question of criticism in Marxist theory by Fernando Forero Pineda

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Aesthetics Problematics in Chinese and Neο-Marxism: Between Art and Politics by Vitalii Turenko

“…In this respect, the diverse practices and designs of Chinese Marxism are similar to those of Western Marxism or an equally distinct variety of Euro-American Marxist intellectual enterprises. …”
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The question of criticism in Marxist theory by Fernando Forero Medina

“…The objective of this work is to examine and analyze Marx’s concept of critique regarding the concepts of praxis, critique of the political economy, critique of ideology, and critique as political action in relation to the theoretical perspective of western Marxism and, especially, in relation to Habermas’s idea of Marx’s theory.…”
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On Dallas Smythe’s “Audience Commodity”: An Interview with Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzerolle by Henry Adam Svec

“…This interview with Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzerolle explores some concepts and debates charted by their new co-edited book, The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age: Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media, which both celebrates and scrutinizes Dallas Smythe’s canonical 1977 essay, “Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism”. The discussion covers Smythe’s contribution to the field of media studies and the state of current debates pertaining to the theory of the audience commodity, and it also touches on questions of Smythe’s mainstream reception and legacy.…”
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The One-Dimensionality of Econometric Data: The Frankfurt School and the Critique of Quantification by Scott Timcke

“…Using methodological techniques from Western Marxism, with special reference to the work of Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno, and Marcuse to inform a critique of Acemoglu and Robinson, I argue that the historical emergence of econometrics as a mode of mediated knowledge is a reified practice within the broader technical administration of social life, a practice that is not a transparent representation of social phenomena. …”
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Reflections on Phelan’s Neoliberalism, Media, and the Political by Thomas Klikauer

“…Seeking to overcome the “Blindspot of Western Marxism”, Phelan’s insightful book discusses neo-liberalism, the media, and the political by defacing neo-liberalism, analysing journalism using neo-liberal media control of New Zealand and Ireland (the so-called Celtic Tiger) as well as the case of “Climategate” as prime examples. …”
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Media, Journalism, and the Public Sphere in Private Family Ownership. On the Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Media Enterprises by Manfred Knoche

“…Selected works by Marx and Engels as well as works from developments of the approaches of the “New Reading of Marx” and “Western Marxism” form the theoretical-methodological basis. …”
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Post-Marxist Philosophy of Language: In Search of Symbolic Basis of Power and Emancipation by Tyutchenko, D.A.

“…Post-Marxism allows usto take a critical look at both the history ofWestern Marxism and the politically victorious liberalism. …”
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Is Green the New Red? Marxism, Ecology, and Contemporary Architectural Theory by Curtis Swope

“…For Marxist theorists concerned about ecology but averse to Western Marxism because of its supposed idealism, Cruz and SH show anew the importance of aesthetic concerns to conceptions of the environment. …”
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The worlds of E.D. Morel, 1873-1924 by Collett, MD

“…The fundamental assumptions and preoccupations of my investigation are instead drawn from so-called ‘continental philosophy’, in particular the traditions of phenomenology, existentialism, Western Marxism, and psychoanalysis.</p> <p>Especially important to this project is the titular concept of a ‘World’: an internally coherent existential space of signification through which the subject is able to navigate its existence meaningfully. …”

<b>Do “mito” ao “simulacro”: a crítica da mídia, de Barthes a Baudrillard</b> by Maria Eduarda da Mota Rocha

“…These authors’ works are revealing not only of the status of the media in contemporary social theory but also of the movement that ends in the review or renunciation of western Marxism after the 1970s. The notion of “spectacle” is crucial in the analysis of the relation between media and society in this tradition, and embodies the source of the idea of “simulacrum”, which is central to postmodern theory. …”
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