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About Helena Sheehan

Helena Sheehan is Professor Emerita at Dublin City University in Ireland where she taught STS as well as history of ideas more generally. Her books include Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History, The Syriza Wave, Navigating the Zeitgeist and Until We Fall (in progress). She has also published many articles on philosophy, science, politics, and culture. She has lectured in various countries in America, Europe and Africa. She has been an activist on the left since the 1960s.
  • Should private property be abolished? Dublin students vote yes

    Helena Sheehan

    It was a packed room for the Trinity College Dublin Philosophical Society debate on whether private property should be abolished. I was the first speaker and spoke in an impassioned way for the motion. There was much expression of assent in the room.

  • The Soviet delegation at the International History of Science Congress in London, 1931: Nikolai Bukharin, Modest Rubenstein, and Boris Hessen in the foreground.

    Marxism and STS: From Marx and Engels to COVID-19 and COP26

    Helena Sheehan

    At the recent conference of the Society for the Social Study of Science, I came to the conclusion that the history of Marxism in relation to science and technology studies is an increasingly forgotten story.

  • Helena Sheehan - Science and Technology Studies: A Marxist Narrative

    Helena Sheehan – ‘Science and Technology Studies: A Marxist Narrative’

    Originally published: Marx-STS on November 18, 2021 (more by Marx-STS)

    The author of several books, including the definitive study ‘Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History’, Professor Sheehan traces the historical entanglements of Science and Technology Studies with Marxist thought, as well as her own biography as a scholar and activist.

  • Although J. D. Bernal reached the heights of the academic establishment, he put forward a radical critique of its cherished assumptions and power structures.

    John Desmond Bernal, Marxism, and the scientific revolution

    Originally published: Jacobin Magazine on April 25, 2021 (more by Jacobin Magazine)  |

    J. D. Bernal was one of the twentieth century’s great scientific minds, whose work nurtured the imagination of science-fiction writers. In a world where capitalist priorities distort scientific research, Bernal’s Marxist perspective on science is more relevant than ever.

Also By Helena Sheehan in Monthly Review Magazine

  • Return of the Dialectics of Nature Debate September 01, 2022
  • Marxism, Science, and Science Studies May 01, 2022
  • The Synthesizing Impulse: J. B. S. Haldane October 01, 2021
  • Between Nature and Society March 01, 2018
  • As the World Turned Upside Down July 01, 2017
  • South Africa—The Left Must Launch a Counteroffensive November 01, 2011
  • Ecological Roots October 01, 2000

Books By Helena Sheehan

  • Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism March 13, 2019
  • The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left January 17, 2017

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    Late Imperialism and the Expropriation of the Earth.

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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