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376 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
In this sense, the book may also have undercut the fashionable argument that Marx was fundamentally a Eurocentric thinker trapped in the narrow frameworks of his time, the mid-nineteenth century, and thus largely impervious to contemporary issues like race, gender, and colonialism. I refer here not only to arguments like those of Edward Said's celebrated Orientalism, but also to more broadly philosophical ones like those of Michel Foucault, for whom "Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water; that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else".