Editor’s Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on the Text vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Editor’s Introduction 1
6. Part I Theoretical Readings
7. One Marx’s Notes on Method: 19
8. Two Rethinking the “Base and Superstructure” Metaphor [1977] 62
9. Three The “Political” and the “Economic” in Marx’s Theory of Classes [1977] 91
10. Four The Problem of Ideology 134
11. Editor’s Discussion of the Part I Writings 158
12. Part II Thematic Overviews
13. Five Subcultures, Cultures and Class 179
14. Six Black Crime, Black Proletariat 199
15. Seven Variants of Liberalism [1986] 227
16. Editor’s Discussion of the Part II Writings 247
17. Part III Points of Departure
18. eight Nicos Poulantzas 261
19. Nine In Defence of Theory [1981] 273
20. Ten Authoritarian Populism 282
21. Eleven When Was “the Post-colonial”? Thinking at the Limit [1996] 293
22. Twelve The Centrality of Culture 316
23. Editor’s Discussion of the Part III Writings 335
24. Index 351
25. Place of First Publication 363