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THE POULANTZAS READER BY VERSO=0A=0A=0AThe Poulantzas Reader=0A=0ANicos Pou=
lantzas=0A=0AEdited by James Martin=0A =0APublication: June 2008=0AHardback=
: ISBN 978 1 84467 199 1 / 256 pages / $95/ =C2=A360=0APaperback: ISBN 978 =
1 84467 200 4 / 256 pages / $34.95 / =C2=A319.99=0A=0A=0ANicos Poulantzas i=
s one of the foremost Marxist political theorists of the twentieth century.=
 =0AHe became justly famous for his work on social classes and the state, a=
nd for his engagements and debates with a range of influential thinkers, fr=
om Althusser and Foucault to Miliband and Laclau. =0AThis volume presents a=
 selection of Poulantzas=E2=80=99 key writings in legal philosophy and poli=
tical sociology, some of which are translated here for the first time.  =0A=
These seminal texts address a range of issues including the theory of hegem=
ony, Sartrean existentialism, fascism, and the Greek military coup of 1967.=
  =0AAlso included is an interview with Poulantzas himself from 1979, and h=
is classic, frequently cited dispute with Ralph Miliband on the nature of t=
he capitalist state. =0APoulantzas provided a remarkably prescient analysis=
 of capitalist political economy, during the most turbulent years of its ev=
olution into the globalized system we live in today.  =0AHis writings prefi=
gured many of the central debates in contemporary Marxist theory, and these=
 articles, spanning the length of his career, offer an essential and compre=
hensive introduction to his thought.=0A         =0APraise for State, Power,=
 Socialism:=0A=E2=80=9CIt is Poulantzas=E2=80=99 great virtue to have seen =
so clearly that an adequate Marxist theory of politics must be able to deal=
 with just those phenomena which non-Marxists have regarded as decisive ref=
utations of Marxism.=E2=80=9D=0ATimes Literary Supplement=0A=0APraise for P=
olitical Power and Social Classes:=0A=E2=80=9CThis is a book which deserves=
 a very wide audience. Of great interest for Americans is the fact that he =
bridges Marxist and =E2=80=98Western=E2=80=99 social science writings with =
remarkable acuity.=E2=80=9D=0AJournal of Politics=0A=0APraise for Classes i=
n Contemporary Capitalism:=0A=E2=80=9CPoulantzas=E2=80=99 major arguments a=
re very controversial and challenging. This is one of the most important re=
cent contributions to class theory.=E2=80=9D=0AContemporary Sociology=0A=0A=
AUTHOR: Nicos Poulantzas was born in Athens in 1936 and died in Paris in 19=
79.  His other published works include Political Power and Social Classes, =
Classes in Contemporary Capitalism, Fascism and Dictatorship and State, Pow=
er, Socialism.  =0AEDITOR: James Martin is Reader in Political Thought at G=
oldsmiths College, London, and is the author of Gramsci=E2=80=99s Political=
 Analysis, co-author of Third Way Discourse: European Ideologies in the Twe=
ntieth Century, and editor of Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments.=0A=0AM=
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