Kevin B. Anderson
Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
[Winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Award for the Best Book in Iranian Women’s Studies, 2006.]
We analyze critically the extensive but little-known writings on Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution by Michel Foucault, who traveled there twice in 1978. These writings, published in 1978-79 in French and Italian newspapers and journals, celebrate the Islamic revolution as an alternative to both Western capitalist democra…
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
This volume, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson, provides an annotated selection from Luxemburg’s major political and economic works – Accumulation of Capital, the Mass Strike, Reform or Revolution, on nationalism, on Lenin, on the Russian Revolution, etc. -- as well as her letters. Several important Luxemburg texts that have been translated into English for the first time by Ashley Passmore and me: a…
The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx
This volume contains annotated selections from Raya Dunayevskaya’s lifelong writings on Hegel, Marx, and dialectics, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson. It comprises work on dialectics that did not appear in Philosophy and Revolution (1973) and other of her books published during her lifetime. It begins with one of Dunayevskaya’s last writings on dialectics, followed by a closely linked text, her 195…
Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society
[Recipient of the International Erich Fromm Prize, 2000)
Part one is a Fromm biography, while part two includes six essays on Fromm and criminology by contemporary scholars, of which mine is entitled “Erich Fromm and the Frankfurt School Critique of Criminal Justice” (pp. 83-119). Part three contains annotated translations (by Heinz D. Osterle and me) of Fromm’s discussions -- during the early years of the F…