Reexamining Engels's Legacy in the 21st Century

While the deepening structural crisis of capitalism in the 21st century has led to a revival of interest in Marx all over the world, Marx's life-long comrade Frederick Engels has largely remained marginalized. To commemorate the bicentenary of Engels birth, this edited collection aims to rectify this gap in academic scholarship by gathering a diverse group of scholars to consider the legacy of Engels's thought and work and critically examine his theoretical relevance in today's world. The contributors of this volume provide new, stimulating reading of Engels's works to revive some of Engels's key ideas. The Legacy of Engels in the 21st Century integrates the most recent discoveries and achievements of Marxian scholarship, employing the historical-critical method developed in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe to shed light on the forgotten aspects of Engel's critique of capitalism and vision of postcapitalism.

Offers a critical re-examination of Engels's philosophy and critical economy based on the new complete edition, Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe Considers key issues in contemporary society previously neglected in Engels scholarship such as ecology, gender, and anthropology Provides a comprehensive, fresh, original interpretation of the text through philological attention for the different editions of the work

Autorentext

Kohei Saito is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Osaka City University, Japan.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. The Legacy of Engels in the 21st Century.- Chapter 2. Engels's Conception of Dialectics in the Plan 1878 of Dialectics of Nature.- Chapter 3. Engels, Philosophy and Politics.- Chapter 4. Frederick Engels and The Condition of the Working Class in England between 1845 and 1892.- Chapter 5. Engels's Theory of Class Struggle.- Chapter 6. Engels and the Irish Question.- Chapter 7. Engels's Thoery of Crisis.- Chapter 8. Engels, Lukács and Historical Materialism.- Chapter 9. Marx-Engels Question' in Envisioning Postcapitalism in the 21st Century.- Chapter 10. Engels as an Ecologist.- Chapter 11. Engels as an Anthropologist.- Chapter 12. Engels as a Feminist.- Chapter 13. Conclusion