Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys
the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy,
40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse
pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume's 30 original essays
reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the
Amherst School-the interdisciplinary community of scholars that has
enriched and extended, while never ceasing to interrogate and
recast, the anti-economistic Marxism first formulated in the
mid-1970s by Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, and their economics
Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The
title captures the defining ideas of the Amherst School: an
open-system framework that presupposes the complexity and
contingency of social-historical events and the parallel
"overdetermination" of the relationship between subjects and
objects of inquiry, along with a novel conception of class as a
process of performing, appropriating, and distributing surplus
labor. In a collection of 30 original essays, chapters confront
readers with the core concepts of overdetermination and class in
the context of economic theory, postcolonial theory, cultural
studies, continental philosophy, economic geography, economic
anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory/studies. Though
Resnick and Wolff's writings serve as a focal point for this
collection, their works are ultimately decentered-contested,
historicized, reformulated. The topics explored will be of interest
to proponents and critics of the post-structuralist/postmodern turn
in Marxian theory and to students of economics as social theory
across the disciplines (economics, geography, postcolonial studies,
cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory,
philosophy, and literary studies, among others).
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