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Informationen zum Autor Francis Mulhern (born 1952) comes from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. He was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Cambridge. His books include The Moment of 'Scrutiny' and Culture/Metaculture . He is Associate Editor of New Left Review. Adolfo Gilly (1928-2023) was a professor of history and politics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the author of the classic study La revolución interrumpida (in English, The Mexican Revolution ), which was conceived and written while he was imprisoned. Asada Akira is a critic and curator and the current head of the Graduate School at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. His first book, published in 1983, was Structure and Power: Beyond Semiotics . Since then he has published, among other things, Beyond "the End of History" and The End of Cinema's Century . He was co-editor of Hihyokukan ("Critical Space"). David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City , The Condition of Postmodernity , The Limits to Capital , A Brief History of Neoliberalism , Spaces of Global Capitalism , and A Companion to Marx's Capital . Dorothy Thompson taught in the School of History in the University of Birmingham, where she wrote a series of highly regarded books about Chartism and other topics in nineteenth-century British history-among them, Early Chartists , Chartism in Wales and Ireland , Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation and Queen Victoria: Gender and Power . Her edited volume Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb testified to her engagement in post-war peace movements. For more on Dorothy and Edward Thompson visit their website. Ernest Mandel (1923-95), historian, economist and activist, was a leading figure in the Fourth International from 1945 and was the author of a number of books, including Late Capitalism , Marxist Economic Theory , Long Waves of Capitalist Development , and The Meaning of the Second World War . Georg Lukács (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Long Twentieth Century, Adam Smith in Beijing , and, with Beverly Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System . His work has appeared in many publications, including New Left Review -who published an interview on his life-long intellectual trajectory in March-April 2009 (http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2771)., and in Nov-Dec 2009 ("http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2814) - and there are more accounts on his memorial website: http://www.sympathytree.com/giovanniarrighi1937/. Hedda Korsch (1890-1982) helped form the German Communist Parth (KPD) and was a teacher at the University of Jena in the early 1920s. She also worked in experimental schools and the Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin, until KPD leaders had her dismissed because of her relationship to the Marxist theorist Karl Korsch. Jean-Paul Sartre was a philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps modernes . Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 - and turned it down. His books include Nausea ,
