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info am 28. November 2011 um 17:00We’re very happy to announce the publication of the English-language edition of Poulantzas lesen.
READING POULANTZAS
Edited by Alexander Gallas, Lars Bretthauer, John Kannankulam & Ingo Stützle
Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979), one of the most influential Marxist intellectuals of the 1970s, is renowned for his rich analyses and for his thought-provoking writing on socialist strategy. In these essays contributors highlight his enduring contemporary relevance; assess his impact on theories of crisis, class and the state; examine how he responded to challenges such as the internationalization of capital, the rise of feminism and the new social movements; and discuss his work in relation to Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and Michel Foucault.
“Bringing together an impressive collection of established and younger scholars working in the Poulantzasian and Gramscian traditions, this is a book that has one overriding concern, to understand the contemporary political situation. The concepts deployed and the questions examined in Reading Poulantzas are indispensable for anyone who wants to comprehend contemporary political struggle and change.” Peter Bratsis, University of Salford
MerlinPress | ISBN. 978-0-85036-647-1 | paperback | Published November 2011
http://www.merlinpress.co.uk/acatalog/READING_POULANTZAS.html
Index: Download Subject Index and Name Index of Reading Poulantzas.
Errata
Please excuse the erroneous page numbers on pgs. 72-88, 138-153, 170-185, and 231-260. An index with corrected page numbers will be made available on this website soon. Please find the notes on the editors (here) and the list of abbreviated references (here).



Die Staatstheorie Nicos Poulantzas’ und das damit zusammenhängende zentrale Konzept des Staats als „materieller Verdichtung eines Kräfteverhältnisses zwischen Klassen und Klassenfraktionen“ wurden in den letzten Jahren im deutschen Sprachraum viel diskutiert. Teilweise sehr abstrakt gehaltene Beiträge erinnerten dabei oft an Milibands Kritik im Zuge der berühmten Debatte in New Left Review Anfang der 1970er: „Out, out, damned fact“, persiflierte er Poulantzas’ „absurdly exaggerated fear of empiricist contamination“. Heute scheint insbesondere die deutsche Debatte um Poulantzas oft von einer ähnlichen Angst geplagt. Im Gegensatz zu Poulantzas’ Werk, der in „Faschismus und Diktatur“ eine empirische Faschismusstudie vorlegte, sind im Neo-Poulantzianismus empirische Studien oft Mangelware.