Critical And Post-critical Political Economy

Browning and Kilmister review the nature and possibility of critical political economy in the light of recent post-modern and cultural theory.They provide an historical understanding of critical political economy, focusing on the development of the critical perspectives on capitalism of Hegel and Marx.They then review post-Marxist, post-structuralist, ecological and feminist standpoints that challenge notions of critical political economy sustained in the Hegelian-Marxist tradition. This study of critical and post-critical political economy concludes by arguing for the integration or these standpoints within a revitalized critical perspective.

Gary K. Browning is a Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University.

Introduction * Hegel: Civil Society and the Political Economy of Modernity * Marx: The Critique of Political Economy * Foucalt: Constructing and Deconstructing Political Economy * Gorz: Critique, Work and the Working Class * Baudrillard: Consuming Critique Lyotard: Political Libidinal Economies * Fraser, Feminism and Political Economy * Conclusion