<DIV><p>This collection of essays?including several translated to English for the first time?covers a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Marxist literature. With a particular focus on the important role played by Romanticism in Marxist thought, topics include religion, Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Walter Benjamin.</p><p><B>Michael Löwy</B> is research director in sociology at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris, France. He is the author of many books, including <I>The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx</I> and, with Olivier Besancenot, <I>Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy</I>.</p></DIV>