Acknowledgements/Introduction: Bearing Society in Mind/Intermezzo/ 1 Subjectivation, The Social, and a (Missing) Account of the Social Formation/ 2 Society, Social Formations: Reading the 1857 Introduction/ 3 Thought and the Real: Conceptualizing the Social Formation/ 4 The Temporality of Social Formations/ 5 Interests, Groups, and the Social Formation/ Coda/ Works Cited/Index
Samuel A. Chambers teaches political theory and cultural politics
at Johns Hopkins University where he is an associate professor of
political science. He is co-editor of the journal ‘Contemporary
Political Theory’ and general series coeditor of the Routledge
series, ‘Innovators in Political Theory’. His work is broadly
interdisciplinary, ranging from philosophy of language, to feminist
and queer theory, to critical television studies. He has published
four books, ‘The Lessons of Rancière’ (2013), ‘Untimely Politics’
(2003); ‘Judith Butler and Political Theory’ (2008); and ‘The Queer
Politics of Television’ (2009).
samuelachambers.com
In this astute and engaging new book Samuel Chambers shows how
radical theory ‘after’ Marx can and must ‘return’ to Marx if it is
to realize its critical potential. Chambers’ goal is not to reject
movements such as post-structuralism but to retrieve and recreate
for them the concept of ‘social formation’ through which we can see
better the shape of the present and the kinds of action that open
on to what comes next. The book sets out with clarity and
conviction the challenge to which a serious contemporary political
theory must rise.
*Alan Finlayson, Professor of Political and Social Theory,
University of East Anglia*
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