Marx and Europe: Beyond Stereotypes, Below Utopias

This book provides a unique scientific contribution to the debate on Marx’s legacy in proposing to critically articulate two ＂lines of discussion＂ which are most often kept apart. On the one hand, it reassesses the place of Marxian thought in the construction of Europe, seeking to revitalize the European political debate. On the other, it situates Marx’ thought in the perspective of postcolonial and decolonial studies, with particular attention to their effort to overcome the indisputable limits of the Marxian legacy. In asking whether Marx’ thought was too European or not European enough, the book examines internationalist emancipatory politics and eurocentrism, class struggle and finance in the shaping of the European institutions, migration, identity and violence, as well as Marxian critiques of colonialism both within and beyond Europe. At a time of extreme tension, also within leftist politics, this book provides a precise and rigorous argument on what continues to make Marx’sthought relevant, in grappling with social domination in the era of global capitalism, while also exploring the limits of Marxism today, both at the European level and worldwide.

Anders Fjeld is doctor in political philosophy and researcher and lecturer at Kulturakademiet in Paris. He is the author of Jacques Rancière. Pratiquer l’égalité (Michalon éditions, 2018) and, with Matthieu de Nanteuil, Le monde selon Adam Smith. Essai sur l’imaginaire en économie (PUF, 2022), and has edited several anthologies, among them Jacques Rancière (with Étienne Tassin, Katz Editores, 2017) and Movimientos sociales y subjetivaciones políticas (with Étienne Tassin and Laura Quintana, Ediciones Uniandes, 2016). He is an editor of contemporary philosophy at the Norwegian publishing house H//O//F, and has translated several books from French, such as Françoise Vergès, Avkoloniseringsfeminisme (2022), Vinciane Despret, Tenke som en rotte (2022) and Ludivine Bantigny, Revolusjon (forthcoming, 2024).

Matthieu de Nanteuil is professor in sociology at UCLouvain, and currently Dean of the Louvain School of Management. He has published a variety of works. Among others: Justice in the Workplace. Overcoming Ethical Dilemmas (Edward Elgard Publishing, 2001); Le monde selon Adam Smith. Essai sur l’imaginaire en économie (PUF, 2022) with Anders Fjeld; Introduction à la sociologie économique. Analyse critique des organisations et des marchés (De Boeck, 2022), with Thierry Amougou; Face à la violence. Tome 1: Représentations (Le Bord de L’eau, 2023). He has also designed a method based on deliberative workshops in organizational settings, allowing participants to overcome value conflicts and ethical dilemmas in the workplace, by relying on collective intelligence practices - entitled Ethical Dilemmas in Contemporary Organizations (EDICO).