In der Dämmerung: Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Kritischen Theorie (In the Twilight. Studies on the Pre- and Early History of Critical Theory) by Christian Voller, Matthes & Seitz, 2022, 414 pages, German. Reviewed by Jonathan Roessler, Free University Berlin, 2023. Pentecost 1923, Geraberg, a small village on the northern edge of the
Sonja Buckel, Subjectivation and Cohesion, trans. Monika Vykoukal (Brill, 2021) Reviewed by Susan Dianne Brophy From the start, Sonja Buckel faces a difficult task. Although writing “in the tradition of Karl Marx”, she is “diametrically opposed” to the standard line adopted by latter-day Marxist legal theorists, namely that law should be unmasked as ideologically
Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer (eds.), Hunger and War. Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II, Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2015 Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer, Fortress Dark and Stern. The Soviet Home Front During World War II, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021 Reviewed by Michael Haynes
On 29 July, Geert Reuten passed away after a short illness with liver cancer. Geert was the youngest of twelve children and belonged to a prominent Catholic family. His grandfather, textile manufacturer Vincent van den Heuvel, had for many years been a member of parliament for the Catholic Party and played an important role in
The Historical Materialism journal and book series editorial boards are very sad to announce the death of Geert Reuten due to cancer. Geert was a great supporter of the HM project from the very beginning. Aside from being a brilliant Marxist theorist, Geert was also a kind person – not always the most frequent combination!
23 July 2025 Time Agenda 13.20 – 13.30 Opening 13.30 – 15.00 Panel 1: Capital, Ideology, and Historical Formations Chair: Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung – University of Vienna Embedded Sufficiency? The Sufficiency Economy as Labor Discipline in Post-Crisis Thailand Aila Trasi – Johns Hopkins University and Goethe University Frankfurt Travelling Mangoes: Tropical
As the editorial board of Historical Materialism, we would like to express our condemnation, indignation and anger regarding the unprecedented forms of censorship and ideological silencing with which the Historical Materialism Paris Conference had to deal. In particular, we would like to condemn the stance adopted by the management of the Dauphine – PSL University,
Guest editors: Anna Beria (Kingston University, London), Isabel Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London), Giorgi Kobakhidze (Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès), Jiří Růžička (The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) The deadline for abstract submission has now closed. The distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and
With each passing day and at an accelerating pace in recent years, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale, similar to the era of the rise of fascist forces between the two world wars of the twentieth century. The label “neofascism”
I wrote this shortly after participating in an historic HM Conference in London, only days after having heard the election result in the US while in the UK. We now face the increasing threat of reaching dangerous climatic tipping points simultaneously with an incoming climate-denialist Trump administration with virtual control of Congress. So, given this
Dear comrades, A huge thanks to all the participants in the 2024 Historical Materialism London conference. The conference was a huge success with over 800 presentations and 900 attendees that joined us over the four days. The success of the conference is an expression of the continuous pertinence of critical Marxist theory in these times
