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Author: Gerald Allan Cohen
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0199242062
Size: 44.95 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Historical materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Book Description: First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defence of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement - analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. Healso expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.

Author: G. A. Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691070681
Size: 17.38 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Book Description: Publisher's description: First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.

Author: John Torrance
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521440660
Size: 37.70 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Book Description: A new look at Marx, showing how he provides a sociology of ideas which is still of value in explaining how social life shapes and distorts people's ideas and beliefs.

Author: Allen Wood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136293388
Size: 53.26 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Book Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Patrick Murray
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415911962
Size: 57.57 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Book Description: Is commercialization the mainspring of modernity? Do modern commercial forms represent an end state of social development--the "end of history"? Reflections on Commercial Life, an anthology of writings from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, poses these and other similar questions. It provides students, scholars, and general readers an opportunity to develop a more self- conscious and critical relationship to commercial life, as it challenges the inattention of mainstream economics to the social forms that make up commercial life, such as money, the commodity, wage-labor, and capital.

Author: Henrietta L. Moore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118780590
Size: 47.24 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Book Description: This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology inTheory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates,revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation ofissues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemologyover the past century. Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and aninsightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theory Revised and updated to reflect an on-going strength anddiversity of the discipline in recent years, with new readingspointing to innovative directions in the development ofanthropological research Identifies crucial concepts that reflect the practice ofengaging with theory, particular ways of thinking, analyzing andreflecting that are unique to anthropology Includes excerpts of seminal anthropological works, key classicand contemporary debates in the discipline, and cutting-edge newtheorizing Reveals broader debates in the social sciences, including the relationship between society and culture; language and culturalmeanings; structure and agency; identities and technologies;subjectivities and trans-locality; and meta-theory, ontology andepistemology

Author: G. A. Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521477512
Size: 15.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Book Description: In this book, G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, arguing that it cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure thus undermining the concept that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism & its accompanying inequality.

Author: Stephen Henry Rigby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 58.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Book Description: Marx's theory of history is often regarded as the most enduring and fruitful aspect of his intellectual legacy. His "historical materialism" has been the inspiration for some of the best historical writing in the works of scholars such as Eric Hobsbawm, E.P.Thompson, Rodney Hilton and Robert Brenner. S.H. Rigby establishes Marx's claims about social structure and historical change, discusses their use in his own and his followers' writings, and assesses the validity of his theories. He argues that Marx's social theories were profoundly contradictory and that Marxism has proved most useful when it is seen as a source of questions, concepts and hypotheses rather than as a philosophy of historical development.

Author: Professor of Economic Social and Political Sciences Chair of Economic and Social Ethics Philippe Van Parijs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521418027
Size: 59.53 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Book Description: It was Philippe van Parijs' conviction that the Marxist tradition can be kept alive as an essential political component of the Left not through dutiful conservation, but through ruthless recycling: the discarding of encumbering elements, and the reshaping of the remainder using the latest intellectual 'technology'. The essays collected in this book examine the structure and potential of historical materialism as a general theory of social change. They draw on the lessons of the failure of Marxist crisis theory, and show how a rejuvenated notion of exploitation can illuminate the analysis of the class structure of welfare state capitalism or the assessment of international migration. They explore and advocate a 'capitalist road to communism' that expands the realm of freedom while bypassing socialism, and they develop those aspects of the Marxist project consistent with ecological concerns.

Author: Ryszard Panasiuk
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042005617
Size: 69.21 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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