Andrew Merrifield

Metromarxism

A Marxist Tale of the City

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Produktbeschreibung

"Metromarxism" discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s to the present by way of biographical chapters on figures from the Marxist tradition, including Marx, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, and David Harvey.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415933490
• ISBN-10: 0415933498
• Artikelnr.: 22361885

Autorenporträt

Andy Merrifield is Professor of Geography at Clark University. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford and is the coeditor of The Urbanization of Justice in addition to being a contributor to The Nation and Dissent.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1.Karl Marx: Commodities and Cities, With Sober
Senses2.Fredrick Engels: Back Street Boy in Manchester3.Walter Benjamin:
The City of Profane Illumination4.Henri Lefebvre: The Urban Revolution5.
Guy Debord: The City of Marx and Coca-Cola6.Manuel Castells: The City of
Althusser and Social Movements7. David Harvey: The Geopolitics of
Urbanization8. Marshall Berman: A Marxist URban Romance