A new issue of Cosmos and History is out. An interview with Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala, authors of Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx. A review of Radicalism in French Culture: A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s by Niilo Kauppi. A review of The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World by David Priestland. A review of Critical Theory to Structuralism: Philosophy, Politics, and the Human Sciences, ed. David Ingram. A review of Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism by Kieran Allen. Is the phrase "critical theory" a useful distinction or unconscious smugness? An interview with Terry Eagleton, author of Why Marx Was Right. Wendy Brown on her book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty. A review of Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies by Arnold Farr. Before October: Roland Boer on the unbearable romanticism of Western Marxism. Simon Glendinning on Derrida and the promise of democracy. The Age of Occupation: Jon Wiener reviews Eric Hobsbawm's How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism. An interview with Ben Agger, co-editor of A Journal of No Illusions: Telos, Paul Piccone, and the Americanization of Critical Theory (and more). Jeffrey J. Williams on the brief, wondrous life of the theory journal. John Riddell on black liberation and the Communist International. A review of Democracy in What State? by Giorgio Agamben et al. Andrew McAfee on why he won't quote Marx. Mary Gabriel on how Marx came to discover the alienation of labor, and on the humble origins of Marxism’s founding document. In the second of his series on Roland Barthes, political theorist Andrew Robinson presents the French author's theory of myths.
