It is often argued that cosmopolitanism faces unique motivational constraints, asking more of individuals than they are able to give. This ‘motivational problem’ held pose a significant challenge cosmopolitanism, as it appears unable transform its moral demands into motivated political action. article develops novel response the problem facing arguing self-interest, alongside appeals sentiment,...

Conßict is of course central to Marxian economics. Consistent with Marx and Engels’ (1848, 3) belief that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles,” most, but not all, of the conßict described involves classes, either “fundamental” or “subsumed” (Resnick and Wolff 1982). Some of it involves individuals, however, on one or both sides, often in different “cl...

The publication in 1923 of Georg Lukács’s foundational History and Class Consciousness is approaching its centenary. Arising from high revolutionary passion, this book faces bleak prospects a hundred years on. After much influence and attention, western Marxism-and broadly speaking, the western Left-likewise has declined since at least 1968. Perry Anderson, the leading philosophical exponent of...

Under the conviction that theories contend in a field of struggle which they confront each other, this work focuses on positions those who start and from Ernesto Laclau Slavoj Žižek stand out when building their theoretical-political devices. Along path, authors corroborate an inverse roadmap, since while starts intellectual history Marxism, he abandons his core categories proposes, instead, po...

Drawing on the World Social Forum as an exemplary case study, this article shows how an emerging mode of cosmopolitanist vision (‘transversalism’) can be explained in terms of activists’ experiences of both complexity and contradiction in their networks. The paper questions the idea that the transnationalization of networks of solidarity and interconnection can uncomplicatedly encourage the gro...

Ignazio Silone, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party, has written strikingly about the role of moral commitment in radical theory. ‘The more Socialist theories claim to be “scientifi c”’, he suggests, ‘the more transitory they are; but Socialist values are permanent. The distinction between theories and values is not suffi ciently recognized, but it is fundamental. On a group of t...

The publication in 1923 of Georg Lukács’s foundational History and Class Consciousness is approaching its centenary. Arising from high revolutionary passion, this book faces bleak prospects a hundred years on. After much influence and attention, western Marxism-and broadly speaking, the western Left-likewise has declined since at least 1968. Perry Anderson, the leading philosophical exponent of...

Memory Studies and its Trajectories When the authors of this volume were asked 'to reflect on (y)our own work through the prism of (y)our companions' I was somewhat apprehensive. The social sciences never had the kind of personal awakening like say 'new journalism' or some of the humanities driven by a more subjective approach to writing. Even if most of the research questions we pose involve s...