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Situated Marxism analyzes theoretical practices in postwar Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on their own terms and within their institutional, social, and historical contexts. Challenging enduring narratives of dogma and decline, twelve case studies from across the region trace how Marxist thought engaged with science, ecology, global futures, and Western philosophy, and how these engagements shaped new understandings of orthodoxy. The volume reveals a rich intellectual tradition with continuing relevance to today’s debates on knowledge, crisis, and social justice.

Adela Hîncu is an intellectual historian whose work focuses on the history of social sciences, Marxist social theory, and women’s political thought in East Central Europe after the Second World War. Currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, she is conducting research on the transnational history of social expertise from Eastern Europe from the 1970s to the early 2000s.Stefan Baghiu is lecturer of Romanian literature and literary theory at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and editor of the Transilvania journal. His research consists of quantitative analysis and ideological readings of Romanian literature and world literature. He has co-edited several collective volumes, such as Ruralism and Literature in Romania (2019) and Beyond the Iron Curtain (2021).Alex Cistelecan is a researcher in philosophy and history of ideas, specializing in Marxism and state socialism. He holds a PhD in political theory from LUISS University (Rome). He has published articles in Historical Materialism, Telos, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Studies in East European Thought, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.Christian Ferencz-Flatz is a philosopher and media scholar. His works include Critical Theory and Phenomenology (2023). and Film as a Social Situation (2018). Together with Radu Jude, he co-authored the found footage film Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024). He is the PI of a research project devoted to post-socialist advertising.

Political Ideologies, Europe, Political Science, History

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