Publications

• Founder and Editor, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (2010) (ISSN 2042-2016)
• Co‑founder of Radical Philosophy and member of editorial board (1972‑2001)
  • Book Reviews Editor, Radical Philosophy (1993-8)
  • Issue editor, Radical Philosophy 47 (Autumn 1987)

• `Radical Philosophy turns 50’, Radical Philosophy 2.13, pp. 5-6, https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/radical-philosophy-turns-50
• `The Rational Kernel of Hegel’s Dialectic.’ International Critical Thought. Vol 12(2), 2022, pp. 327-336. (pdf)
• `Engels and the Dialectic of Nature.’ In Carver, T., Rapic, S. (eds) Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2022, pp. 33-51.
• `Engels und die Dialektik der Natur.‘ In Smail Rapic, ed. Naturphilosophie, Gesellschaftstheorie, Sozialismus: Zur Aktualität von Friedrich Engels. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2022: pp. 45–62
• `What is Marxism?’, in International Critical Thought (2021): pp. 1-12. doi: 10.1080/21598282.2021.1965493 (eprint)
• ‘Work and Human Nature in Hegel and Marx’. In The Politics and Ethics of Contemporary Work. Whither Work?, edited by Keith Breen and Jean-Philippe Deranty, pp. 49–58. London and New York: Routledge, 2021.
• `Church should review battle memorials say local residents‘, Canterbury  Journal , 22 July 2020
• `Engels und die Dialektik der Natur’ [Engels and the dialectic of nature], Zeitschrift Marxistiche Erneuerung, no. 122 (June 2020): pp. 75-80 (ISSN 0940-0648)
• `Marx and Progress’, International Critical Thought, 2020, vol. 10 no. 1: pp. 18-33 (ISSN 2159-8282) (pdf)
• `Marx and Teleology’, Science & Society, vol. 83 no. 1 (2019): pp. 37-63 (pdf)
• `Reflections on the Centenary of the Russian Revolution’, International Critical Thought, 2018: 1-9 (ISSN 2159-8282) (pdf)
• `The Idea of Communism’, in Jan Kandiyali ed., Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018: pp. 261-271 (ms)
  • `The Idea of Communism’ (Chinese trans. Qu Xuan) Xin Hua Wen Zhai [Xinhua Digest], No. 638, 2018 (2), pp.141-144. (ISSN 1001-6651)
  • `The Idea of Communism’ (Chinese trans. Qu Xuan), Marxism and Reality, No. 150, vol. 2017 (5): pp. 73-78. (ISSN 1004-5961)
  • `The Idea of Communism’ (Russian trans. Petr Kondrashov), Scientific Yearbook of the Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17, no. 1, 2017: pp. 7-20
• `Introduzione’, Antonio Senta, Luigi Galleani, L’anarchico più pericoloso d’America, Nova Delphi, Roma, 2018. (ISBN 978-88-97376-67-5) (English version)
  • `Foreword’, Antonio Senta, Luigi Galleani: The Most Dangerous Anarchist in America. Translated by Andrea Asali and Sean Sayers, AK Press, Chico, CA, 2019. (ISBN 9781849353489) (text)
• ‘Alienation.’ In Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics. Eds. David M. Brennan, David Kristjanson-Gural and Catherine P. Mulder. New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 135-43 (ISBN 9781138774933)
• `Immaterial labor and the information economy: reply [to Kaan Kangal]’, Science & Society, vol. 81 no. 1 (January 2017), pp. 133-6 (pdf)
• ‘Alienation as a Critical Concept.’ Proceedings of the First World Congress of Marxism, Volume 2. Beijing, 2016. Pp. 824-55. ISBN 9787010167053
• `Luigi Galleani: “The most dangerous anarchist in America”’, trans. From Italian of A. Soto by Pietro Casati: Theory without Borders
• `Luigi Galleani: “L’anarchico più pericoloso d’America”’, trans. A. Soto, Umanità Nova, 2 June 2016 (English text)
• `Marx, Hegel, and the historical method’, Chinese translation Cheng Yao, Philosophy 2014, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2015.
• `Introduction’ [with David Bates and Iain MacKenzie], in David Bates, Iain MacKenzie and Sean Sayers (eds), Marxism, Religion and Ideology: Themes from David McLellan, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2015, pp. 1-11 (ISBN 9781138850613)
• `The Concept of Alienation and the Development of Marx’s Thought’, in David Bates, Iain MacKenzie and Sean Sayers (eds), Marxism, Religion and Ideology: Themes from David McLellan, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2015, pp. 46-58 (ISBN 9781138850613) (ms)
• `Private Property and Communism’, Chinese translation Liu Yusen and Meng Gaofeng, in Marxism and Reality [CCTB Beijing] vol. 2015 no. 4, pp. 61-69 (ISSN 1004-5961)
• `Marx as a critic of liberalism’, in Michael J. Thompson (ed.), Constructing Marxist Ethics: Critique, Normativity, Praxis. E.J. Brill, Leiden and Boston MA, 2015, pp. 144-164. (ISBN 9789004254145); Haymarket, Chicago, 2016, pp. 144-64. (ISBN 9781608466412) [reprint of Brill, 2015] (pdf)
  • Chinese translation Zhang Na, in Philosophical Trends [CASS Beijing] vol. 2015 no. 3, pp. 31-41 (ISSN 1002-8862)
• `Marxism and the Doctrine of Internal Relations’, Capital & Class, vol. 39 no. 1 (2015), pp. 25-31 (pdf)
• `Marx on Property, Needs and Labor in Communist Society’, in Shannon Brincat ed., Communism in the 21st Century, Volume I: The Father of Communism: Rediscovering Marx’s Ideas, Praeger, Santa Barbara CA, 2014 (ISBN: 9781440801266), pp. 9-39
• Marco Piasentier and Andrea Soardo, `Alienazione e natura umana: in dialogo con Sean Sayers’, Knots, MicroMega, La Reppublica, (Italian translation by Marco Piasentier) (March 2014) (Original English version: `Marxism, Alienation, and Human Nature. A dialogue with Sean Sayers’)
• `Dialectic(s).’ In Gregory Claeys ed., Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, volume 4, 219-20. CQ Press, Washington DC, 2013. (ISBN 9781452234168)
• `Marxismos kai Ithiki’ [Marxism and Morality], Marxistiki Skepsi (Marxist Thought), vol. 6, pp. 244-252), Greek translation Christos Kefalis, [Σον Σέγιερς, Μαρξισμός και Ηθική, Μαρξιστική Σκέψη, τόμος 6, σελ. 244-252]
• `Marx’, in Tom Angier ed., Ethics: The Key Thinkers, Bloombury, London and New York, 2012, pp. 175-196 (ISBN 9781441149398) (ms)
  • `Marx as an ethical thinker’, Marxism and reality [CCTB Beijing], Chinese translation Huang Dongbo, vol. 2016 no. 4: pp. 77-85. (ISSN 1004-5961)
• `Marx and alienation’, The Montréal Review, January 2012 (link)
• `Alienation as a Critical Concept’, International Critical Thought, vol. 1 no. 3 (September 2011), pp. 287-304 (ISSN 2159-8282 print, 2159-8312 online) (pdf)
• `MacIntyre and Modernity’, in Paul Blackledge and Kelvin Knight eds., Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism (University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame IN, 2011), pp. 79-96 (ISBN 9780268022259) (pdf)
  • Chinese translation Qu Xuan, in The Review of Practical Philosophy, no. 2, ed. Xu Changfu, Sun Yat-sen University Press, Guangzhou, China (2015), pp. 148-167 (ISBN 9787306055873)
• `Marxism and Actually Existing Socialism’ , Greek translation by Christos Kefalis, in Christos Kefalis ed., October and our Age, Topos editions, Athens 2010, pp. 576-590 (ISBN 978-9606863851).
• `Religion and Politics in the Modern World’, in Interpretations of Marxism: Chinese and Western, Chinese translation Tan Qunyu, Social Sciences Academic Press (China), Beijing, 2010, pp. 209-229 (ISBN 978-7-5097-1345-7)
• `Marxism and the Crisis of Capitalism’, MRZine 20^th March 2009
  • Turkish translation Emrah Özdemir, Politika Dergisi (Politics Magazine), No. 23, June 2010, pp. 16-20 (additional link)
  • Chinese trans. Meng Gaofeng, Philosophical Trends (CASS, Beijing), vol 2009 no. 5 (May 2009), pp. 19-21 (ISSN 1002-8862)
  • `Marxism and the Crisis of Capitalism’, Marxistiki Skepsi [Marxist thought], Greek translation by Manos Skoufoglou, January 2011, pp. 167-173
• `Labour in Modern Industrial Society’, in Andrew Chitty and Martin McIvor eds, Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, pp. 143-158 (ISBN 978-0-230-22237-3) (pdf)
• `Marxist Philosophy in Britain: An Overview’, Modern Philosophy (Guangzhou), (Chinese translation Gao Baoli), vol. 2008, no. 2 (February 2008), pp. 52-57 (ISSN 1000-7660) (Chinese, English)
• `Marxism and Morality’, Chinese translation Lai He and Fusheng Liu, Philosophical Researches [Beijing], vol. 2007 no. 9 (September 2007), pp. 8-12 (ISSN 1000-0216)
• `The Concept of Labour: Marx and his Critics’, Science & Society, Vol. 71, No. 4 (October 2007), pp. 431-454 (ISSN: 0036-8237) (pdf)
• `Karl Marx and his Doctrine’, Spartacus, Greek translation, Christos Kefalis, Spartacus, no. 90 (June 2007), pp. 72-4 (ISSN 1106 790). [Translation of `Marx’, in Nöel Parker and Stuart Sim (eds), The A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists (1997)]
• `Marxism and Morality’, Proceedings of International Conference on Philosophy: Fundamental Theory and Contemporary Problems’, Jilin University, Changchun (July 2007), pp. 41-47
• `Marxism and Morality’, Chinese translation Qu Hongmei, Proceedings of International Conference on Philosophy: Fundamental Theory and Contemporary Problems’, Jilin University, Changchun (July 2007), pp. 48-53
• `Dialectic and Social Criticism’, Greek translation, Christos Kefalis, Spartacus, no. 89 (May 2007), pp. 86-90 (ISSN 1106 790)
• `Philosophy and Ideology: Marxism and the Role of Religion in Contemporary Politics’, Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics, ed. David Bates, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2007, pp. 152-168 (ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-4998-1) (pdf)
• `Individual and Society in Marx and Hegel’, Science & Society, vol 71 no. 1 (January 2007), pp. 84-102 (ISSN: 0036-8237) (pdf)
• `Labour in Modern Industrial Society‘, Practice and Text (Nanjing University), November 2006
• `Religion and Politics in the Modern World’, Modern Philosophy (Guangzhou), (Chinese translation Tan Qunyu), vol. 4 (November 2006), pp. 1-11 (ISSN 1000-7660)
• `Freedom and the “Realm of Necessity”’, The New Hegelians: Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School, ed. Douglas Moggach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2006, pp. 261-74 (ISBN: 0-521-85497-0)
• `The “Uplifting Influence” of Work and Industry: The Philosophical Background to The Step Of Steel’, in Serge Prokofiev, Le Pas d’Acier 1925, DVD set, IDM Ltd and AHRC, 2006 (distributed by http://dancebooks.co.uk)
• `Alienation’, `Contradiction’, `Dialectical materialism’, `Engels’, `Historical materialism’, `Ideology’, `Lenin’, `Marx’, `Marxism’, ` The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. John Protevi, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2005 (The Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2006), pp. 22, 107, 149-50, 170-1, 286-7, 302, 359-60, 379-88 (ISBN: 0-7486-1716-7)
• `Why Work? Marxism and Human Nature’, Science & Society, vol. 69 no. 4 (2005), pp. 606-16 (ISSN: 0036-8237) (pdf)
• `Analytical Marxism and Morality’, in Kai Nielsen and Robert Ware (eds), Analyzing Marxism: New Essays on Analytical Marxism (1989)
  • Chinese translation by Lu Kejian, Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2002, pp. 66-85 (ISBN: 7-300-04283-X)
• `Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and Marx’, Historical Materialism, vol. 11 no. 1 (2003), pp. 107-128 (ISBN 90-04-12501-9) (pdf)
  • `Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and Marx’, Chinese translation Li Yi-tian, Marxism and Reality (Journal of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, Beijing), vol. 2008, no. 2 (February 2008), pp. 37-44 (ISSN 1004-5961)
• `Freedom and the “Realm of Necessity”’, Proceedings of the ISSEI VIII International Conference (Aberystwyth, July 2002), (ed.) Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, CD ROM (file: 506sayers.rtf), ISSEI, 2003 (ISBN 0-9544363-0-X)

• `The Importance of Hegel for Marx: Reply to Zarembka’, Historical Materialism, no. 8 (Summer 2001), pp. 367-372 (ISBN 90-04-12501-9) (pdf)
• `The Prospects for Socialism in the Twenty-first Century’ (Chinese translation Dr Wei Xiaoping), in Gu Jiaqin (ed.), Socialism and the Twenty-first Century, Central Party Translation Bureau Publishing House, Beijing, 2000, pp. 71-8 (ISBN 7-80109-384-4)
  • (abridged version, Chinese translation Dr Wei Xiaoping), Guowai Lilun Dongtai (Current Trends in Theory), no. 287, January 2000, pp. 10-12
• `Identity and Community‘, Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. XXX, no. 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 147-60 (ISSN: 0047-2786)
• `Is the truth out there?’ (Interview with Richard Rorty), Times Higher Education Supplement, no.1283, 6 June 1997, p. 18
• `Progress and Social Criticism’, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, vol 2. no. 3 (May 1997), pp. 544-9 (ISSN: 1084-8770)
• `Marx’, in Nöel Parker and Stuart Sim (eds), The A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997), pp. 241-5 (ISBN 0-13-524885-X)
• `Who are my Peers? The Research Assessment Exercise in Philosophy’, Radical Philosophy 83 (May/June 1997), pp. 2-5 (ISSN 0300-211X) (pdf)
• `Marxismus. Ein Überblick’, [Marxism: An Overview] (German translation Dieter Lohaus) Marxisticsche Blätter, Heft 2-97 (March/April 1997), pp. 54-8 (ISSN 0542-7770)
• `Assessment Reassessed’, Times Higher Education Supplement, no.1269, 28 February 1997, p. 17
• `Engels and Materialism‘, in Christopher J. Arthur (ed.), Engels Today: a Centenary Appreciation, (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 153-172 (ISBN 0-333-63324-5 hb, 0-333-66531-7 pb); and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1996 (ISBN 0-312-16013-5 hb)
  • Chinese translation by Qin Wanli, Modern Philosophy, 2020(01), pp. 1-10
• `Communitarianism and Moral Realism’, in Jan Bransen and Marc Slors (eds), The Problematic Reality of Values (Van Gorcum: Assen, 1996), pp. 121-136 (ISBN 90-232-3169-4)
• `Dialectic and Social Criticism‘, Annalen der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie – Societas Hegeliana, Band IX (1996), pp. 241-5 (ISBN 3-89144-220-3)
• `The Value of Community‘, Radical Philosophy 69 (Jan/Feb 1995), pp. 2-4
• `Philosophy and the Information Superhighway‘, Radical Philosophy 67 (Summer 1994), p. 63
  • `La philosophie et l’autoroute électronique’, Horizons philosophiques, vol 6 no. 2 (Spring 1996), pp. 43-47 (trans Josette Lanteigne) (ISSN 1181-9227)
• `Moral Values and Progress‘, New Left Review 204 (March-April 1994), pp. 67-85
• `Once More on Relative Truth: A Reply to Skillen‘, Radical Philosophy 64 (Summer 1993), pp.35-8
• `Economic Ethics’ (Czeck translation R. Bureš), Etika (Brno) vol. 4 no. 1 (1992), pp. 60-8
• `The Human Impact of the Market,’ in P. Heelas and P. Morris (eds), The Values of the Enterprise Culture: The Moral Debate, (Routledge: London, 1992). pp. 120-38
• `Psychoanalysis and Human Rationality,’ Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 22 no. 2 (Fall 1991), pp. 60-70
• `Epistemology and Relativism,’ Annalen der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie – Societas Hegeliana, Band VII (1990), pp. 164-8
• `Radical Philosophy,’ (Chinese translation Zhang Dun Min) Zhexue Dongtai (Philosophical Information, CASS, Beijing), 11 (1991), pp. 35-7 (English version)
• `F.H. Bradley and the Concept of Relative Truth,’ Radical Philosophy 59 (Autumn 1991), pp. 15-20
• `Gorz on Work and Liberation,‘ Radical Philosophy 58 (Summer 1991), pp. 16-19
• `Introduction’, D. McLellan and S. Sayers (eds), Socialism and Democracy (London: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 1-5
• `Contradiction and Dialectic,’ Science & Society, vol. 55 no. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 84-91
• `Marxism and the Dialectical Method: A Critique of G.A. Cohen’ (1984), reprinted in S. Sayers and P. Osborne (eds), Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy: A Radical Philosophy Reader (London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 140-68 (pdf)
• `Marxism and Actually Existing Socialism,‘ in D. McLellan and S. Sayers (eds), Socialism and Morality (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 42‑64
• `Analytical Marxism and Morality,’ in Kai Nielsen and Robert Ware (eds), Analyzing Marxism: New Essays on Analytical Marxism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 15 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1989), pp. 81‑104
  • (Japanese translation, H. Kishimoto), The Bulletin of Nihon Fukushi University, No. 81-2 (April 1990), pp. 127‑57
• `Images of the French Revolution‘ Radical Philosophy 53 (Autumn 1989), pp. 50‑1
• `Knowledge as a Social Phenomenon,’ Radical Philosophy 52 (Summer 1989), pp. 34‑7
• `Thinking the Unthinkable,’ (with Ted Benton) The Times Higher Education Supplement, no.857 (7 April, 1989), p. 17
• `Work, Leisure and Human Needs,’ in C.J. Barrett and T. Winnifrith (eds), The Philosophy of Leisure (London: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 34‑53
• `The Need to Work: A Reply to Mr Higgins,’ in Radical Philosophy 47 (Autumn 1987), p. 48
• `Editorial,’ Radical Philosophy 47 (Autumn 1987), p. 1
• `The Actual and the Rational,’ in David Lamb (ed.), Hegel and Modern Philosophy (London: Croom Helm, 1987), pp. 143‑60
• `The Need to Work,’ Radical Philosophy 46 (Summer 1987), pp. 17‑26
  • `The Need to Work: A Perspective from Philosophy,’ in R.E. Pahl (ed.), On Work (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), pp. 722‑41
• `Work, Leisure and Human Needs,’ Thesis Eleven 14 (1986), pp. 79‑96
• `Mental Illness as a Moral Concept‘ in R. Edgley and R. Osborne (eds), The Radical Philosophy Reader (London: Verso, 1985), pp. 217‑33
• `Higher and Lower Pleasures,’ in B. Lang, W. Sacksteder & G. Stahl (eds), The Philosopher in the Community (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1984), pp. 112‑129
• `Marxism and the Dialectical Method: A Critique of G.A. Cohen,’ Radical Philosophy 36 (Spring, 1984), pp. 4‑13
• `Materialism, Realism and the Reflection Theory,’ Radical Philosophy 33 (spring, 1983), pp. 16‑26
• `On the Centenary of Marx’s Death,’ Labour Herald, no.27 (March, 1983), pp. 12‑13
• `Mao and the Cultural Revolution: What Went Wrong?’ China Now 100 (January‑February, 1982), pp. 10‑11
• `Contradiction and Dialectic in the Development of Science,’ Science and Society, vol.45 no.4 (Winter, 1981), pp. 409‑436
• `Computer Threat?’ China Policy Study Group Broadsheet, vol.18 no.11 (November, 1981), pp. 3‑4
• `Forces of Production and Relations of Production in Socialist Society,’ Radical Philosophy 24 (Spring, 1980), pp. 19‑26
• `The Cultural Revolution: Towards a Reassessment,’ China Policy Study Group Broadsheet, vol.16 no.8 (August, 1979), pp. 1‑3
• `Productive Forces and Relations of Production,’ China Policy Study Group Broadsheet, vol.14 no.7 (July, 1977), pp. 1‑4
• `On the Marxist Dialectic,’ Radical Philosophy 14 (Summer, 1976), pp. 9‑19
• `Ordinary Language Philosophy and Radical Philosophy,’ Radical Philosophy 8 (Summer, 1974), pp. 36‑8
• `Radical Philosophy in Britain and in the United States,’ Radical Philosophers Newsjournal 2 (March, 1974), pp. 35‑40
• `Mental Illness as a Moral Concept,’ Radical Philosophy 5 (Summer, 1973), pp. 3‑8
  • `Mental Illness as a Moral Concept,’ reprinted in Inscape: Journal of the British Association of Art Therapists 9 (Winter, 1974), pp. 1‑13
• `Towards a Radical Philosophy,’ Cambridge Review, vol. 94 no.2209 (October, 1972), pp. 11‑16
• `Hinton’s Reaction: A Reply,’ (with Tony Skillen) Radical Philosophy 2 (Summer 1972), pp. 24‑5
• `Examinations and Academic Illiteracy,’ Radical Philosophy 1 (January 1972), pp. 14‑15

• Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx, 1881-1883: An Intellectual Biography. Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis: Vol. 1(2), Article 10. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol1/iss2/10 (May 2022)
• Evald Ilyenkov, Intelligent Materialism: Essays on Hegel and Dialectics, Science and Society, vol 84 no 3 (July 2020), pp. 433-435  (pdf)
• Xu Changfu, Marxism, China and Globalization, Science and Society, vol. 82 no. 2 (April 2018), pp. 310-312
• Nathan Coombs, History and Event: From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory. Science and Society, vol. 81 no. 2 (April 2017), p. 313-316 (pdf)
• Rahel Jaeggi, Alienation. Philosophical Review 125 no. 2 (April 2016), pp. 290-2 (pdf)
• G. A. Cohen, Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy. Science and Society, vol. 79 no. 4 (October 2015), pp. 633-5 (pdf)
• Stephen Eric Bronner, Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia. H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews. January, 2015.
• Justin P. Holt, Karl Marx’s Philosophy of Nature, Action and Society: A New Analysis, in Science & Society, vol. 77 no. 4 (October 2013), pp. 584-587 (ISSN 0036-8237)
• István Mészáros, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume II: The Dialectic of Structure and History, in Science & Society, vol. 77, no. 3 (July 2013), pp. 428–41 (ISSN 0036-8237) (pdf)
• Paul Blackledge, Marxism and Ethics: Freedom, Desire, and Revolution, in International Socialism: A Quarterly Journal of Socialist Theory, no. 136 (October 2012), pp. 218-221 (ISSN: online 1754-4653 / Print 0020-8736)
• David Spencer, The Political Economy of Work, in Science & Society, vol. 75, no. 2 (April 2011), pp. 269-72 (ISSN 0036-8237) (pdf)
• Axel Honneth, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, in Mind 118, no. 470 (April 2009), pp. 476-79 (ISSN: online 1460-2113 / print 0026-4423). (pdf)
• David Leopold, The Young Karl Marx and Douglas Moggach, The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer, in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, nos. 57/58 (2008), pp.173-80 (ISSN 0263-5232) (pdf)
• John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy, in Radical Philosophy 148 (March-April 2008), pp. 49-50 (ISSN 0300-211X)
• Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1, and Ethics and Politics, Selected Essays Volume 2, in Radical Philosophy 143 (May/June 2007), pp. 56-58 (ISSN 0300 211X)
• Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics, Culture Machine (October 2005)
• Iseult Honohan, Civic Republicanism, in Philosophical Books, vol. 45 no.3 (July 2004), pp. 269-71 (ISSN 0031-8051) (pdf)
• Paul O’Grady, Relativism, in International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 44 no. 1 (March 2004), pp. 123-24 (ISSN 0019-0365)
• Adriaan T. Peperzak, Modern Freedom: Hegel’s Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, No. 49/50 (2004), pp. 158-163 (ISSN 0263 5232) (pdf)
• Hilary Putnam, The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays, in Radical Philosophy 122 (November/December 2003), pp. 52-3 (ISSN 0300-211X)
• Tony Burns and Ian Fraser (eds), The Hegel-Marx Connection, in Studies in Marxism, vol 8 (2001), pp. 163-166 (ISSN: 1358-6823)
• John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, in Radical Philosophy 110 (November-December 2001), pp. 48-9 (ISSN 0300-211X) (pdf)
• Onora O’Neill, Bounds of Justice, FIRST ReVIEW, theglobalsite, (http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/review/111sayers.htm, September 2001) (ms)
• G. A. Cohen, If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?, in Radical Philosophy 104 (November/December 2000), pp. 39-41 (ISSN 0300-211X)
• Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals and Stuart Hampshire, Justice is Conflict, in Radical Philosophy 102 (July/August 2000), pp.47-9 (ISSN 0300 211X)
• James D. White, Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism, in Historical Materialism 5 (Winter 1999), pp. 359-66 (ISBN 0 9532171 4 0) (pdf)
• Ian Hunt, Analytical and Dialectical Marxism, in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, nos. 39/40 (1999), pp. 133-8 (ISSN 0263 5232)
• George Sher, Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics, in Philosophical Books, vol. 40 no. 2 (April 1999), pp. 133-5 (ISSN: 0031-8051)
• Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 2 no. 7 (November 1997), pp.1263-4 (ISSN: 1084-8770) (pdf)
• W.F. Hegel, Lectures on Natural Right and Political Science, in Radical Philosophy 84 (July/August 1997), pp.51-2 (ISSN 0300-211X)
• Kevin Anderson, Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study, in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no. 34 (Autumn/Winter 1996), pp.72-6 (ISSN 0263 5232)  (ms)
• John E. Roemer, A Future for Socialism, in Philosophical Books, vol. 36 no. 3 (July 1995), pp. 209-11 (ms)
• Daniel Bell, Communitarianism and its Critics, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, no. 1109 (4 February 1994), pp. 22-3 (ms)
• George G. Brenkert, Political Freedom, in Philosophical Books, vol. 34 no. 1 (January 1993), pp. 51-3
• Allen W. Wood, Hegel’s Ethical Thought, in Radical Philosophy 61 (Summer 1992), pp. 61-2
• Robert Meister, Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx, in Philosophical Books, vol. 33 no. 2 (April 1992), pp. 74-6
• E. Bowie (ed.), Equal Opportunity, in Philosophical Books, Vol. 31 No. 3 (July 1990), pp. 176-7
• Szporluk, Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx Versus Friederich List, in History of European Ideas, vol. 12 no. 4 (1990), pp. 552-4
• Kevin M. Brien, Marx, Reason and the Art of Freedom, in Science and Society, vol. 54 no. 2 (Summer 1990), pp. 235‑8 (pdf)
• Stafford, Socialism, Radicalism and Nostalgia: Social Criticism in Britain 1775‑1830, in History of European Ideas, vol.10 no.1 (1989), pp. 119‑21
• Timms and P. Collier (eds), Visions and Blueprints, in History of European Ideas, vol.10 no.5 (1989), pp. 624‑5
• Braybrooke, Meeting Needs, in Philosophical Books, vol.30 no.3 (July 1989), pp. 179‑80
• Thomson, Needs, in Philosophical Books, vol.29 no.4 (October 1988), pp. 229‑31
• Gollobin, Dialectical Materialism, in Science and Society, vol.52 no.3 (Fall 1988), pp. 347‑50
• W.F. Hegel, Philosophical Propaedeutic, in Radical Philosophy 45 (Spring 1987), pp. 45‑6
• Jacobson, Pride and Solace, in Radical Philosophy 45 (Spring 1987), pp. 46‑7
• Lukes, Marxism and Morality, in Radical Philosophy 44 (Autumn 1986), pp. 32‑3
• W.F. Hegel, Introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of History, in Philosophical Books, vol. 27 no.3 (July, 1986), pp. 146‑8
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`Reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic’ (June 2020)

`On Karl Marx’s Two-hundredth Anniversary‘ (2018)

`Marxism and Human Nature: a reply to Terry Eagleton‘ (1999)

`A Note on Emergent Materialism‘ (1996)

`Making Room for the Mental‘ (1995)

`Review of Mundle, Critique of Analytical Philosophy‘ (1970)

Books

• Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes. Chinese translation Cheng Yao, Renmin University Press, Beijing
• Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes. German translation Andreas Főrster, LAIKA-Verlag, Hamburg. (ISBN 9783944233567)
• Plato’s Republic: An Introduction. Chinese translation Zhou Hongyin

Articles

• `Alienation’, Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory, ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo
• `Marx and Teleology’, Science & Society
• `Marx and modern China’, Proceedings of the International Symposium on China’s path towards poverty eradication and comprehensive well-off society, Peking University October 2016
• `Alienation as historical concept’ [abridged version], Russian translation. Scientific Yearbook of the Institute of Philosophy and Law [The Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg]
• `Private Property and Communism’, Marxism and Reality
• `Private Property and Communism’, trans. Meng Gaofeng [being arranged by Pan Huixiang]
• `Marx, Hegel and the Historical Approach’, trans Cheng Yao
• `Teleology and Meaning in History’, trans Cheng Yao
• `Marx’s concept of communism’, trans. Pan Huixiang
• `Dialectical materialism’ in Terry Ball ed., Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• `Marxism and the Dialectical Method: A Critique of G.A. Cohen’, Chinese translation Li Yi-tian, Journal of World Philosophy [CASS Beijing]
• `Marxist Philosophy in Britain: An Overview’, Chinese translation Feng Yanli, Journal of Institute of Marxism, CASS, Beijing
• `The Republic (Plato)’, Encyclopedia of Literature and Philosophy, ed. M. Keith Booker, Greenwood Press, Westport CT
• `Dialectic in Western Marxism’ (in Chinese), Appendix in Peng Yen-Han, Dialectics Beijing University Press, Beijing (1992)
• `Rethinking Marxism After 1989′, Journal of the Institute of Philosophy, Beijing (1991)
• `The Future of Marxism in the Post Communist World’, ARKA (1990)
• `Alienation and Economic Development,’ The Ethical Record (1989)

Reviews

• Sitton, Marx’s Theory of the Transcendence of the State: A Reconstruction, in Political Studies (1990)

Other

• Fang Jue, `Interview with Sean Sayers’, Journal of Philosophical Analysis of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
• `On Chinese Reform and Opening Up’, Interview with Cui Linfei, China Youth Daily