Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure (RLE Marxism)
Title | Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure (RLE Marxism) PDF eBook |
Author | H.T. Wilson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2015-04-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317499182 |
This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of humans as collective, cultural and historical beings, Marx undertook a radical critique of the theoretical/analytical method of his predecessors and his contemporaries in political economy, philosophy and the natural sciences. While elements of the methods of some of these thinkers – most conspicuously from the work of Aristotle, Kant and Hegel – were present in Marx’s thought, he achieved a new synthesis of procedural, epistemological and ontological methods.
Marx's Critical/dialectical Procedure
Title | Marx's Critical/dialectical Procedure PDF eBook |
Author | H. T. Wilson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781315712840 |
This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of humans as collective, cultural and historical beings, Marx undertook a radical critique of the theoretical/analytical method of his predecessors and his contemporaries in political economy, philosophy and the natural sciences. While elements of the methods of some of these thinkers - most conspicuously from the work of Aristotle, Kant and Hegel - were present in Marx's thought, he achieved a new synthes.
Time, Labor, and Social Domination
Title | Time, Labor, and Social Domination PDF eBook |
Author | Moishe Postone |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 442 |
Release | 1996-07-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521565400 |
Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by developing concepts aimed at grasping the essential character and historical development of modern society, and also at overcoming the familiar dichotomies of structure and action, meaning and material life. These concepts lead him to an original analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of 'actually existing socialism'. According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reinterpretation entails the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. This reformulation, Postone argues, provides the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late twentieth-century capitalism.
Marx and Critical Theory
Title | Marx and Critical Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuel Renault |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 92 |
Release | 2018-08-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004374949 |
Marx and Critical Theory examines Marx’s main philosophical, political and social theoretical ideas. Its purpose is twofold: making sense of the concepts and theses of Marx, and showing that they remain relevant for contemporary critical theory.
Issues in Marxist Philosophy: Dialectics and method
Title | Issues in Marxist Philosophy: Dialectics and method PDF eBook |
Author | John Mepham |
Publisher | Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity
Title | Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Starosta |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2015-11-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004306609 |
In Marx ́s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Guido Starosta develops a methodologically-minded critical reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy, which is shown to be a materialist inquiry into the social and historical determinations of revolutionary subjectivity.
Dance of the Dialectic
Title | Dance of the Dialectic PDF eBook |
Author | Bertell Ollman |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780252071188 |
Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of dialectical method. Marx made extremely creative use of dialectical method to analyze the origins, operation, and direction of capitalism. Unfortunately, his promised book on method was never written, so that readers wishing to understand and evaluate Marx's theories, or to revise or use them, have had to proceed without a clear grasp of the dialectic in which the theories are framed. The result has been more disagreement over "what Marx really meant" than over the writings of any other major thinker. In putting Marx's philosophy of internal relations and his use of the process of abstraction--two little-studied aspects of dialectics--at the center of this account, Ollman provides a version of Marx's method that is at once systematic, scholarly, clear and eminently useful. Ollman not only sheds important new light on what Marx really meant in his varied theoretical pronouncements, but in carefully laying out the steps in Marx's method makes it possible for a reader to put the dialectic to work in his or her own research. He also convincingly argues the case for why social scientists and humanists as well as philosophers should want to do so.