David Harvey
eBook - ePub

David Harvey

A Critical Introduction to His Thought

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

David Harvey

A Critical Introduction to His Thought

About this book

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey's writings over a long period of time.

Harvey's writings have exerted huge influence within the social sciences and the humanities. In addition, his work now commands a global readership among Left political activists and those interested in current world affairs. Harvey's central preoccupation is capitalism and the impacts of its growth-obsessed, contradictory dynamics. His name is synonymous with key analytical concepts like 'the spatial fix' and 'accumulation by dispossession'. This critical introduction to his thought is an essential companion for both new and more experienced readers. The critique of capitalism is one of the most important undertakings of our time, and Harvey's work offers powerful tools to help us see why a 'softer' capitalism is insufficient and a post-capitalist future is necessary.

This book is an important resource for scholars and graduate students in geography, politics and many other disciplines across the social sciences and humanities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Endorsements Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 David Harvey: Geographer, Marxist and public intellectual
  13. 3 Between philosophy and political practice: The power of critical theory
  14. 4 Contradiction, perpetual change and crisis: The DNA of capitalism
  15. 5 The restless and uneven geographies of capitalism
  16. 6 Capital unbound: The commodification of everything
  17. 7 From structure to agency: The tangled human geographies of difference, inequality, solidarity and protest
  18. 8 What is to be done? Towards a more just geography for a feasible future
  19. 9 Marxism within and beyond the academy: Communicating critical thought in a ‘post-public’ era
  20. 10 Conclusion: A Marxist for our time?
  21. Bibliography
  22. Appendix 1: David Harvey: List of publications
  23. Appendix 2: David Harvey’s books
  24. Appendix 3: A timeline of events of significance in David Harvey’s lifetime
  25. Index