Bruce Robbins

Kluge always wanted to give people, and the principles to which people try to be faithful, some extra lift.

Not all privilege is intolerable.

Were we fighting the power, or were we an institutional part of it?

Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything?

Remembering the great Marxist critic.

Notes on the style of the present.

A new biography challenges the Veblen’s image as an academic misfit.

In the last two years of his life Karl Marx took over a thousand pages of notes concerning world history. In ill health, unable to finish the promised third volume of Capital, and (according to the recent Gareth Stedman Jones biography) unpleasantly aware that he still had not ...