Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism) - Brossura

Creaven, Sean

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ISBN 10: 0415547601 ISBN 13: 9780415547604

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2009

Riassunto

In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness, forces and relations of production, base and superstructure, class structure and class conflict, and demonstrates how they allow the social analyst to conceptualize geo-history as embodying a tendential evolutionary directionality, rather than as simply random or indeterminate in terms of its outcomes.

For those interested in social and political theory, Marxism and communism and contemporary social theory, this outstanding volume is an in important read and a valuable resource.

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

Introduction  1. Critical Realism and Dialectic  2. Materialist Dialectics  3. Socio-Historical Materialism  4. Stratification and Power  5. Marx and Weber and the Dialectics of History.  Conclusion

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0415547601
• ISBN 13: 9780415547604
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 412