Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy

This text offers an authoritative reassessment of Marxist political economy, perhaps the most significant since Althusser. Original reinterpretations of thinkers including Hegel, Weber, Althusser, Derrida and Adorno illuminate heated battles between Hegelian dialectics and deconstructivist criticism. The book seeks to make accessible the sometimes daunting thought associated with both dialectics and deconstruction drawing upon insights from philosophy, sociology, political science and critical theory. Finding a non essentialist way of using the immense cognitive power of dialectics accepting a limited deconstruction but challenging further deconstructionist directions represents a major breakthrough for political economy.