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Leading scholars make the case that Marx & Critical Theory remain essential teaching material for a diverse range of contemporary fields.
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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction>
Part 1: Issues in Teaching Marx(ism)
1 The Specter That Haunts Political Science: the Neglect and Misreading of Marx in International Relations and Comparative Politics
Sebastián Sclofskyand Kevin Funk
2 Marxism and ipe
Ronald W. Cox
3 Marx in Miami: Reflections on Teaching and the Confrontation with Ideology
Bryant William Sculos and Sean Noah Walsh
4 Marxferatu: Introducing Marx through the Vampire Metaphor
Jess Morrissette
5 Neoliberal Feminist Monsters: Where to Find Them and How to Slay Them
Maylin M. Hernandez
Part 2: Rethinking Critical Theory & Critical Pedagogy
6 The “Great Refusal” Redux: Antidote to Mindless Syncopation
Mary Caputi
7 Deep Critique: Critical Pedagogy, Marxism, and Feminist Standpoint Theory in the Corporate Classroom
Allan Ardill
8 Pedagogies of Freedom: Exile, Courage, and Reflexivity in the Life of Paulo Freire
Mauro J. Caraccioli
9 The Materiality of Proletarian Subjectivity: Anticapitalist Antiracist Pedagogies for the 21st Century
Zachary A. Casey
10 Teaching Marx, Critical Theory, and Philosophy: Some Personal Reflections
Douglas Kellner
Coda: Inspiring Action: Rethinking the Public Function of Pedagogy
Index
About the author
Bryant William Sculos, Ph.D. (2017), is Visiting Assistant Professor of global politics and political theory at Worcester State University. He was a 2019 Fellow at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School for Social Research and a Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2018-2019). He is a regular contributor to The Hampton Institute and Class, Race and Corporate Power -- where he also serves as Politics of Culture section editor. Sculos's transdisciplinary research and teaching expertise includes: modern and contemporary political theory, global politics, critical/radical pedagogy, and critical political economy.
Mary Caputi, Ph.D., teaches political theory at California State University, Long Beach. She publishes in the areas of feminism, critical theory, postcolonialism, and psychoanalysis. Her books include Feminism and Power: the Need For Critical Theory (Lexington, 2013), Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts, co-edited with Vincent Del Casino (Bloomsbury, 2013), A Kinder, Gentler America: Melancholia and the Mythical 1950s (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Theory of the Obscene (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994). She is currently at work on the topic of Slow Food, USA.
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Leading scholars make the case that Marx & Critical Theory remain essential teaching material for a diverse range of contemporary fields.
