1st Edition
Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media, Communication and Society Volume One
1. Introduction
2. Erich Fromm and the Critical Theory of Communication
3. Revisiting the Althusser/E. P. Thompson-Controversy: Towards a Marxist Theory of Communication
4. Raymond Williams’s Communicative Materialism
5. Henri Lefebvre’s Theory of the Production of Space and the Critical Theory of Communication
6. Towards A Critical Theory of Communication with Georg Lukács’s and Lucien Goldmann
7. Günther Anders’s Critical Theory of Technology
8. Jean-Paul Sartre as Critical Theorist of Communication. An Engagement with "Critique of Dialectical Reason"
9. M. N. Roy, Socialist Humanism, and the Critical Analysis of Communication
10. Capitalism, Racism, Patriarchy
11. Conclusion
Biography
Christian Fuchs is a critical theorist of communication and society. He is co-editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. He is author of many publications, including the books Social Media: A Critical Introduction (3rd edition 2021), Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory (2020), Marxism: Karl Marx’s Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural & Communication Studies (2020), Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News (2020), Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism (2019), Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter (2016), Digital Labour and Karl Marx (2014), Internet and Society (2008).
'In this volume, Christian Fuchs collected and partly updated his recently published articles analysing some key twentieth-century critical/Marxist contributions to the media and communication theory. His work makes an unparalleled contribution to the critical literature of communication studies by analysing, from a Marxist perspective, different dimensions and diverse contexts of mass communication, such as the base-superstructure relationship, human alienation, ideology, hegemony, and its reproductive power for capitalism and its contemporary forms and manifestations, such as authoritarianism, fascism, nationalism, and digital capitalism. A must-read for every critical scholar in the field.'Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana
