Marxist Theory & Criticism


Primary Sources   I   Marxist Theory & Criticism


Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1970, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster, 1971).

Louis Althusser, Pour Marx (1965, For Marx, trans Ben Brewster, 1969).

Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, Lire le "Capital" (1965, Reading "Capital," trans. Ben Brewster 1970).

Renée Balibar, Les Français fictifs: Le Rapport des styles littéraires au français national (1974).

Renée Balibar and Dominique Laporte, Le Français national: Politique et pratique de la langue nationale sous la révolution (1974).

Terry Eagleton, Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory (1976).

Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981).

Fredric Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism (1972).

Pierre Macherey, A quoi pense la littérature? (1990, The Object of Literature, trans. David Macey, 1995).

Pierre Macherey, Pour une théorie de la production littéraire, (1966, A Theory of Literary Production, trans. Geoffrey Wall, 1978).

Pierre Macherey and Étienne Balibar, "Sur la littérature comme forme idéologique: Quelques hypothèses marxistes" (1974), "Literature as an Ideological Form: Some Marxist Propositions," Praxis 5 (1981).

Michel Pêcheux, Les Vérités de La Palice: Linguistique, sémantique, philosophie (1976 Language, Semantics, and Ideology: Stating the Obvious, trans.  Harbans Nagpal, (1982).

Nicos Ar. Poulantzas, L’État, le pouvoir, le socialisme (1978, State, Power, Socialism, trans.  Patrick Camiller, 1980).

Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory (1993).

Aijaz Ahmad, "The Third World in Jameson’s Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," Social Text 31–32 (1992).

Étienne Balibar, Masses, Classes, Ideas (trans. James Swenson, 1994).

Étienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein, Race, nation, classe: Les Identités ambiguës (1988, Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, trans. Chris Turner, 1991).

Antonio Callari and David F. Ruccio, eds., Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory (1996).

Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx (1993, Specters of Marx, trans.  Peggy Kamuf,. 1994).

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (2000).

Rosemary Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (1993).

Peter Hitchcock, Oscillate Wildly: Space, Body, and Spirit of Millennial Materialism (1999).

Fredric Jameson, The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (1992).

Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic (1990).

Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious (1981).

Fredric Jameson, "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," New Left Review 146 (1984).

Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991).

Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, Materialist Feminisms (1993).

Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg, Whither Marxism? Global Crises in International Perspective (1995).

Karl Marx, "Eighteenth Brumaire," Surveys from Exile (ed. and intro. David Fernbach intro. Ben Fowkes, et al. 1973).

Karl Marx, Grundrisse, (1953, Grundrisse., trans. Martin Nicolaus, 1973).

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, vol.  1 (1867, Capital, vol. 1,  Ben Fowkes, 1976).

Karl Marx, Karl Marx: Early Writings (trans. Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton, 1975).

Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics (1985).

Toril Moi and Janice Radway, eds.,  Materialist Feminism, special issue, South Atlantic Quarterly 93.4 (1994).

Antonio Negri, Marx oltre Marx (1979, Marx Beyond Marx, trans. Harry Cleave, Michael Ryan, and Maurizio Viano 1984).

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999).

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987).

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993).

Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989).