Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st Century

Bryant William Sculos, Ph.D. (2017), is Visiting Assistant Professor of global politics and political theory at Worcester State University. He was a 2019 Fellow at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School for Social Research and a Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2018-2019). He is a regular contributor to The Hampton Institute and Class, Race and Corporate Power -- where he also serves as Politics of Culture section editor. Sculos's transdisciplinary research and teaching expertise includes: modern and contemporary political theory, global politics, critical/radical pedagogy, and critical political economy.Mary Caputi, Ph.D., teaches political theory at California State University, Long Beach. She publishes in the areas of feminism, critical theory, postcolonialism, and psychoanalysis. Her books include Feminism and Power: the Need For Critical Theory (Lexington, 2013), Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts, co-edited with Vincent Del Casino (Bloomsbury, 2013), A Kinder, Gentler America: Melancholia and the Mythical 1950s (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Theory of the Obscene (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994). She is currently at work on the topic of Slow Food, USA.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction>Part 1: Issues in Teaching Marx(ism)1 The Specter That Haunts Political Science: the Neglect and Misreading of Marx in International Relations and Comparative Politics Sebastián Sclofskyand Kevin Funk2 Marxism and ipeRonald W. Cox3 Marx in Miami: Reflections on Teaching and the Confrontation with IdeologyBryant William Sculos and Sean Noah Walsh4 Marxferatu: Introducing Marx through the Vampire MetaphorJess Morrissette5 Neoliberal Feminist Monsters: Where to Find Them and How to Slay ThemMaylin M. HernandezPart 2: Rethinking Critical Theory & Critical Pedagogy6 The “Great Refusal” Redux: Antidote to Mindless SyncopationMary Caputi7 Deep Critique: Critical Pedagogy, Marxism, and Feminist Standpoint Theory in the Corporate ClassroomAllan Ardill8 Pedagogies of Freedom: Exile, Courage, and Reflexivity in the Life of Paulo FreireMauro J. Caraccioli9 The Materiality of Proletarian Subjectivity: Anticapitalist Antiracist Pedagogies for the 21st CenturyZachary A. Casey10 Teaching Marx, Critical Theory, and Philosophy: Some Personal ReflectionsDouglas KellnerCoda: Inspiring Action: Rethinking the Public Function of Pedagogy Index