From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Terrell Carver
Terrell Carver
Terrell Foster Carver Awards and responsibilities
Born September 4, 1946 (1946-09-04) Since 1995 Carver has been a member of the Editorial
Boise, Idaho
Commission of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe. Both in
Nationality American 1995/96 and in 2004/5 he was awarded a University of
Bristol Research Fellowship. In 2002/3 he received the
Occupation Professor of Political Theory
Arts and Humanities Research Board Research leave
award, and again from the Arts and Humanities Research
Terrell Foster Carver (born 4 September 1946, Boise, Ida-
Council in 2005/6. Carver is also a member of the Political
ho) is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of
Studies Association Executive Committee. He served as
Bristol.
Chair of the Publications Committee (2000-02), Chair of
the Grants & Awards Committee (2003-05) and as Chair of
Career the External Relations Committee (2005- ).
After receiving his B.A. from Columbia University in
1968, Carver went on to study in England. After finishing Books
his BPhil (1970) and DPhil (1975) at Oxford University, he
• Karl Marx: Texts on Method (1975)
worked as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool be-
• The Logic of Marx (ed.) (1980)
tween 1974 and 1979. In 1980 he moved to the Univer-
• Engels (‘Past Masters’) (1981, repr. 1991; Japanese
sity of Bristol where he was a Lecturer until 1990, when
trans. 1989; Korean trans. 2000; reissued as Engels: A
he became a Reader. In 1985/86 he was Visiting Professor
Very Short Introduction, 2003)
at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1991 he was
• Marx’s Social Theory (1982)
both a Visiting Fellow at The Research School of Social
• Marx and Engels: The Intellectual Relationship (1983;
Sciences of the Australian National University and also at
Japanese trans. 1995)
the Centre for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei Universi-
• Marx and Engels: A Conceptual Concordance (1983)
ty, Tokyo. In 1995 Carver was appointed Professor of Po-
• A Marx Dictionary (1987; Japanese trans. 1991)
litical Theory at the Department of Politics at the Univer-
• Marx’s ‘Grundrisse’ and Hegel’s ‘Logic’ (ed.) (1988;
sity of Bristol. Carver has also been Visiting Fellow spon-
German trans. 1994)
sored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
• Friedrich Engels: His Life and Thought (1989, repr. 1991)
Tokyo/Kyoto, in 1999; a Visiting Professor at Pitzer Col-
• Cambridge Companions to Philosophy: Marx (ed.) (1991)
lege of the Claremont Colleges in 2003; and Visiting Pro-
• Rational Choice Marxism: Assessments (ed.) (1995)
fessor at Senshu University, Tokyo, in 2006.
• Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought: Marx,
Later Political Writings (ed.) (1996)
Research interests • Gender is not a Synonym for Woman (1996)
Carver is a political theorist taking a textual, hermeneu- • Interpreting the Political: New Methodologies (ed.) (1997)
tic and postmodern approach to classic texts and prob- • The Postmodern Marx (1998)
lems. His longstanding interest is in analysis and trans- • The Politics of Sexuality (ed.) (1998)
lation of works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and • Engels After Marx (ed.) (1999)
the relation of those studies to Marxism and the Marxist • Engels: A Very Short Introduction (2003)
tradition in social thought and methodology of the social • Men in Political Theory (2004)
sciences. He has also taken an interest in feminist the- • Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought (ed.)
ories of sex, gender and sexuality, and the relation of (2006)
that work to the sociology of masculinities, using this ap- • Judith Butler’s Precarious Politics: Critical Reflections (ed.)
proach to reinterpret the ’malestream’ canon of classic (2008)
philosophers. He pursues this range of scholarly activ- • Political Language and Metaphor: Interpreting and
ities in an international setting and co-general-edits a Changing the World (ed.) (2008))
book series on Globalization. His books and articles have • William E. Connolly: Democracy, Pluralism and Political
been translated into German, French, Japanese, Korean Theory (ed.) (2008)
and Chinese.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Terrell Carver
References Name Carver, Terrell
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Date of birth 4 September 1946
• Terrell Carver’s University homepage
• List of publications (links to IRIS publications Place of birth Boise, Idaho
database) Date of death
Persondata Place of death
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