Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century: Reflections and Revaluations (Hardcover)

Chapter One: Introduction.- Section 1 Epistemology and Philosophy of Nature.- Chapter Two: Engels and the dialectic of nature.- Chapter Three: Engels and the “Dialectics of Nature”.- Chaper Four: Was Engels a dialectical materialist?.- Chapter Five: Engels and the end of philosophy.- Section 2 Political Economy.- Chapter Six: Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy: the is/ought question.- Chapter Seven: The young Engels and the critique of capitalism: his influence on the young Marx.- Chapter Eight: Engels on the ?external market“ and ?de-industrialization“.- Section 3 The Condition of the Working Class.- Chapter Nine: The constitution of the proletariat: bringing together Friedrich Engels, Edward P. Thompson and Michael Vester.- Chapter Ten: The Housing Question Revisited.- Section 4 Theorizing Power.- Chapter Eleven: Engels theorizes gender hierarchy in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.- Chapter Twelve: The concept of power in Engels’s theory of the state.- Chapter Thirteen Re-reading Engels in the twenty-first century: state, nationalism, and internationalism.- Section 5 Engels and Literature.- Chapter Fourteen: The proletariat and the ?people“: Engels and the ?social prose“ of the 1840s.- Chapter Fifteen: Engels’s philosophical mock-epic: The Triumph of Faith.- Chapter Sixteen: Engels and German literature: a political history to the present.- Section 6 Emancipation ? Revolution ? Communism.- Chapter Seventeen: Engels on post-capitalist society: continuity or discontinuity with Marx.- Chapter Eighteen        Engels and the remaking of communism in the twenty-first century.- Chapter Nineteen: Afterword: whither Engels?