Marxism with Soul Marxist Humanism after Marshall Berman

Marshall Berman, Professor of Political Science at City University of New York, died September 11th 2013 in New York City. He authored a number of influential books including The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society (1970), All That Is Solid Melts into Air: the Experience of Modernity (1982), Adventures in Marxism (1999) and On The Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square (2006). In the introduction to the earliest of these books, Berman conjures the memorable phrase ‘Marxism with Soul’, a refrain that captures the exuberant, romantic and tragic reading of Marx that runs through all his subsequent work.

The symposium will be introduced by Gareth Millington (York) and will feature the following speakers: Andy Merrifield (Cambridge), Todd Gitlin (Columbia), Göran Therborn (Cambridge), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, London), Kirsteen Paton (Leeds) and Owen Hatherley. David Madden (London School of Economics) is the discussant.

For further information contact Dr Gareth Millington (gareth.millington@york.ac.uk)