Publications Representative of Current Research Areas
Books:
Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, Chris O'Kane (eds.) Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society, Volume One. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage, 2018.
Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, Chris O'Kane (eds.) Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory: Themes, Volume Two. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage, 2018.
Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, Chris O'Kane (eds.) Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory: Contexts, Volume Three. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage, 2018.
Beverley Best, Marx and the Dynamic of Capital Formation:An Aesthetics of Political Economy. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Articles and book chapters:
Beverley Best, 'Wages for Housework Redux: Social Reproductionand the Utopian Dialectic of the Value Form.' Theory and Event, 24:3, 2021
Beverley Best, 'Political Economy Through the Looking Glass: Imaging Six Impossible Things About Finance Before Breakfast.' Historical Materialism, 25.3, 2017.
Beverley Best, 'Distilling a Value Theory of Ideology from Volume Three of Capital.' Historical Materialism, 23.3, 2015.
Beverley Best, 'Raymond Williams et la structure de sensibilité de la télérealité. Raymond Williams et les sciences de la culture.' J-F. Coté et A. Bélanger (Eds.). Laval, QC: University of Laval Press, 2015.
Beverley Best, 'Speculating without Hedging: What Marxian Political Economy can offer Laclauian Discourse Theory.' Critical Discourse Studies, 11 (3), 272-287, 2014.
Beverley Best, 'Marx and the Aesthetics of Political Economy.' American International Journal of Social Science, 2 (8), 10-19, 2013.
Beverley Best, ‘Fredric Jameson Notwithstanding’: The Dialectic of Affect. Rethinking Marxism, 23 (1), 2011.
Beverley Best, 'The Problem of Utopia: Capitalism, Depression and Representation.' Canadian Journal of Communication, 35 (4), 2010.