In the Tracks of Historical Materialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Tracks of Historical Materialism write by Perry Anderson. This book was released on 1984. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Tracks of Historical Materialism write by Perry Anderson. This book was released on 2016-02-23. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole? In the Tracks of Historical Materialism looks at some of the paradoxes in the evolution of Marxist thought in this period. It starts by considering the remarkable and variegated growth of historical materialism in the Anglo-American world, spreading across a broad field from history to economics, politics to literature, sociology to philosophy. By contrast, the same years have seen a drastic recession of Marxist influences in the Latin cultures where it was traditionally strong—France or Italy. Its main theoretical challengers there proved to be successive forms of structuralism and post-structuralism. The common coordinates of these—tracing the outer bounds of the work of Levi-Strauss or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida—are surveyed and criticized, in the light of the inherent limitations of the language model from which they derived. In Germany, on the other hand, the theoretical scene has been largely dominated by the accumulating work of Habermas, with its roots in the Frankfurt School. Yet Habermas’s philosophy also reveals unexpected affinities with the trend of prevalent Parisian concerns, in its unifying emphasis on communication—while at the same time diverging from them in the constancy of its political commitments. The historical background of international class struggles against which these variant fates of Marxism in the west were played out is then explored, with special attention to the interconnection between the destinies of Maoism and Eurocommunism. What, finally, is the nature of the relationship between Marxism as a theory and socialism as a goal? A conclusion reviews the wider issues posed for the labour movement by the rise of the peace movement and the women’s movement, and suggests a range of priorities for the further development of Marxist thought in the eighties.
Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism
Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism write by Jacques Bidet. This book was released on 2008. Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. International and interdisciplinary in range and scope, the "Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism" provides a thorough and precise panorama of recent developments in Marxist theory in the US, Europe and beyond.
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marxism and the Philosophy of Science write by Helena Sheehan. This book was released on 2018-01-23. Marxism and the Philosophy of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science Sheehan retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that shaped it. Skilfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan shows how Marx and Engel’s ideas on the development and structure of natural science had a crucial impact on the work of early twentieth-century natural philosophers, historians of science, and natural scientists. With a new afterword by the author.
Marx and Human Nature
Marx and Human Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marx and Human Nature write by Norman Geras. This book was released on 2016-02-23. Marx and Human Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Marx did not reject the idea of a human nature. He was right not to do so.” That is the conclusion of this passionate and polemical new work by Norman Geras. In it, he places the sixth of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach under rigorous scrutiny. He argues that this ambiguous statement—widely cited as evidence that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845—must be read in the context of Marx’s work as a whole. His later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfills both explanatory and normative functions. The belief that Marx’s historical materialism entailed a denial of the conception of human nature is, Geras writes, “an old fixation, which the Althusserian influence in this matter has fed upon … Because this fixation still exists and is misguided, it is still necessary to challenge it.” One hundred years after Marx’s death, this timely essay—combining the strengths of analytical philosophy and classical Marxism—rediscovers a central part of his heritage.
