The Crisis of Marxism: A Historical-Intellectual Problem

In this book, Elías José Palti analyzes the writings of key thinkers who have theorised the present situation of Marxism: Anderson, Jameson, Laclau, Zizek, Butler, Badiou and Derrida. The Crisis of Marxism aspires to clarify why the current crisis of Marxism contains some fundamental clues for it.

Elías José Palti obtained his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Consulting Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, and formerly was the director of the Center for Intellectual at the National University of Quilmes, and a Principal Researcher at Argentina’s National Research Commission (CONICET). Palti has published widely in the field of intellectual history across six different languages. His more recent publications include: An Archaeology of the Political. Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2017), Misplaced Ideas. Political-Intellectual History in Latin America (2024) and Political-Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change (2024).