Marx, Marxism and the Spiritual

This book sets up a much-needed dialogue between a rethought Marxian praxis of the political and a rethought experience of spirituality. The chapters in this book were originally published in, Rethinking Marxism - A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society.

Anjan Chakrabarti, Professor of Economics, University of Calcutta, India. Anup Dhar, Professor of Philosophy, Ambedkar University Delhi, India. Serap A. Kayatekin, Professor, American College of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Editors' Introduction Theory  1. Rethinking Marx and the Spiritual 2. Spirituality Beyond Man: Toward a Labor Theory of the Soul 3. Marx, Foucault, and the Secularization of Western Culture 4. What Kind of "Life Affirmation"? Disentangling the Conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche 5. Specter and Spirit: Ernst Bloch, Jacques Derrida, and the Work of Utopia 6. Ernst Bloch and the Spirituality of Utopia 7. Reading Marx with Levinas 8. Liberation Theology and Marxism Practice 9. Saint Francis in Climate-Changing Times: Form of Life, the Highest Poverty, and Postcapitalist Politics 10. Faiths with a Heart and Heartless Religions: Devout Alternatives to the Merciless Rationalization of Charity 11. Gramsci's Concept of the "Simple": Religion, Common Sense, and the Philosophy of Praxis 12. Subalterns, Religion, and the Philosophy of Praxis in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks 13. Marxism as Asketic, Spirituality as Phronetic: Rethinking Praxis Social Context of Theory and Practice 14. Religion in Russian Marxism 15. Serving the Sighs of the Working Class in South Africa with Marxist Analysis of the Bible as a Site of Struggle 16. Inner Life, Politics, and the Secular: Is There a "Spirituality" of Subalterns and Dalits? Notes on Gramsci and Ambedkar Conversations 17. "I am sure that you are more pessimistic than I am...": An interview with Giorgio Agamben 18. Crossing Materialism and Religion: An Interview on Marxism and Spirituality with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama 19. Transcendence, Spirituality, Practices, Immanence: A Conversation with Antonio Negri