This book sets up a much-needed dialogue between a rethought Marxian praxis of the political and a rethought experience of spirituality. The chapters in this book were originally published in, Rethinking Marxism - A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society.

Editors' IntroductionTheory 1. Rethinking Marx and the Spiritual2. Spirituality Beyond Man: Toward a Labor Theory of the Soul3. Marx, Foucault, and the Secularization of Western Culture4. What Kind of "Life Affirmation"? Disentangling the Conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche5. Specter and Spirit: Ernst Bloch, Jacques Derrida, and the Work of Utopia6. Ernst Bloch and the Spirituality of Utopia7. Reading Marx with Levinas 8. Liberation Theology and MarxismPractice9. Saint Francis in Climate-Changing Times: Form of Life, the Highest Poverty, and Postcapitalist Politics10. Faiths with a Heart and Heartless Religions: Devout Alternatives to the Merciless Rationalization of Charity11. Gramsci's Concept of the "Simple": Religion, Common Sense, and the Philosophy of Praxis12. Subalterns, Religion, and the Philosophy of Praxis in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks13. Marxism as Asketic, Spirituality as Phronetic: Rethinking PraxisSocial Context of Theory and Practice14. Religion in Russian Marxism15. Serving the Sighs of the Working Class in South Africa with Marxist Analysis of the Bible as a Site of Struggle16. Inner Life, Politics, and the Secular: Is There a "Spirituality" of Subalterns and Dalits? Notes on Gramsci and AmbedkarConversations17. "I am sure that you are more pessimistic than I am...": An interview with Giorgio Agamben18. Crossing Materialism and Religion: An Interview on Marxism and Spirituality with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama19. Transcendence, Spirituality, Practices, Immanence: A Conversation with Antonio Negri