The Conformist Rebellion

This is an extremely well-conceived and executed book. The preponderance of radical theory today has moved very far from traditional concerns with class and exploitation, rooted in an interest-based framework. Instead, it has embraced concepts like marginality, exclusion, otherness, etc. This collection joins a small but significant stream of work, published over the past decade, that is pushing back against this faux radicalism.

-- Vivek Chibber, New York University

This book has many strengths—breadth, depth, range of authors, as well as a cohering intellectual spine. It would make an excellent coursebook, offering options for both required reading and suggested reading on various sociology / social theory / cultural theory / political history / political theory / critical theory-style courses.

-- Philip Cunliffe, University of Kent

There is a real need for a robust debate within the left on what emancipation means or can mean in the wake of neoliberalism, and for a renewal of Marx’s critique of political economy. It is not that the left is oblivious to systematic forms of oppression, but that it has ceded the analytical tools—which Marx provides—with which to criticize them. This book will fill an important place in contemporary left scholarship.

-- Stella Gaon, Saint Mary's Univer