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Emergentist Marxism

Sean Creaven
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Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136013508

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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.

Emergentist Marxism

Sean Creaven
Emergentist Marxism Book PDF

Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136013423

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Emergentist Marxism by Sean Creaven Pdf

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.

Marxism and Realism

Sean Creaven
Marxism and Realism Book PDF

Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134562206

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This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as voluntarism versus determinism and humanism versus economism.

Marx, Spinoza and Darwin

Mauricio Vieira Martins
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Author : Mauricio Vieira Martins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031130250

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Marx, Spinoza and Darwin by Mauricio Vieira Martins Pdf

Marx, Spinoza and Darwin presents a common thread in its argument: it shows how these authors—certainly with differences among themselves—consolidated a field of investigation that does not resort to transcendent or religious premises in approaching the phenomena they analyze. Thus, when Spinoza declared that the “will of God” is the “sanctuary of ignorance,” when Marx provocatively maintained that “criticism of religion is the premise of all criticism,” or when Darwin polemicized against a millennial creationist approach, all were taking a stand that invited us to view our world through a secular and immanent lens. In addition to this common thread, Martins discusses other issues present in the works of these thinkers, for instance the space that exists for human subjectivity from a Marxist perspective (which is not to be confused with philosophical “objectivism”): men and women are encouraged to act in the world. With this conceptual background, the concluding chapters of the book address the proliferation of some less examined Christian fundamentalisms in contemporary world, presenting an explanatory hypothesis for the phenomenon.

Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education

Grant Banfield
Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education Book PDF

Author : Grant Banfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317411482

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Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education by Grant Banfield Pdf

This book offers a critical realist intervention into the field of Marxist Sociology of Education. Critical realism, as developed by British philosopher Roy Bhaskar, is known for its capacity to serve as a conceptual underlabourer to applied fields like education. Indeed, its success in clarifying and resolving thorny issues of educational theory and practice is now well established. Given critical realism’s sympathetic Marxist origins, its productive and critical engagement with Marxism has an even longer history. To date there has been little sustained attention given to the application of critical realism to Marxist educational praxis. The book addresses this gap in existing scholarship. Its conceptual ground clearing of the field of Marxist Sociology of Education centres on two problematics well-known in the social sciences: naturalism and the structure-agency relation. Marxist theory from the days of Marx to the present is shown to also be haunted by these problematics. This has resulted in considerable tension around the meaning and nature of, for example, reform, revolution, class determinism and class struggle. With its emergence in the 1970s as a child of Western Marxism, the field continues to be an expression of these tensions that seriously limit its transformative potential. Addressing these issues and offering conceptual clarification in the interests of revolutionary educational practice, Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education provides a new perspective on education which will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004505612

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Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education by Anonim Pdf

This Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education showcases the explanatory power of Marxist educational theory and practice.

Dialectic

Roy Bhaskar
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Author : Roy Bhaskar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134050932

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Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom is now widely regarded as a classic of contemporary philosophy. Written by the renowned founder of the philosophy of critical realism, first published in 1993, this book sets itself three main aims: the development of a general theory of dialectic – of which Hegelian dialectic can be seen to be a special case; the dialectical enrichment and deepening of critical realism – into the system of dialectical critical realism; and the outline of the elements of a totalizing critique of Western philosophy.

Against the Spiritual Turn

Sean Creaven
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Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134009138

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The argument presented in this book is that the recent ‘spiritual’ trajectory of Roy Bhaskar’s work, upon which he first embarked with the publication of his From East to West, undermines the fundamental achievements of his earlier work. The problem with Bhaskar’s new philosophical system (Transcendental Dialectical Critical Realism or simply Meta-Reality), from the critical-realist Marxist perspective endorsed here, is that it marks both a departure from and a negation of the earlier concerns of Bhaskar to develop a realist philosophy of science and under-labour for an emancipatory materialist socio-historical science. The end-result is a meta-philosophy which is irrealist, speculative, under-theorized, internally self-contradictory, and which cannot provide philosophical guidance to liberatory social practices. In opposition to theist ontological logics more generally (including the rather more rational theism presented by Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier and Doug Porpora), the argument of this book is that the earth-bound materialist dialectics of the classical Marxist tradition, and the naturalistic humanism these dialectics under-labour on the terrain of socio-historical being, offer a much more promising way forward for critical realist theory and for liberatory politics and ethics.

Working with Critical Realism

Alpesh Maisuria,Grant Banfield
Working with Critical Realism Book PDF

Author : Alpesh Maisuria,Grant Banfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000804614

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Working with Critical Realism by Alpesh Maisuria,Grant Banfield Pdf

This international and interdisciplinary collection gathers stories from researchers and research students about their methodological encounters with critical realism. Whether the contributors are experienced or novice researchers, they are predominantly new to critical realism. For various reasons, as the contributors’ detail, they have all been drawn to critical realism. It is well known that critical realism can be bewildering and even overwhelming to newcomers, especially to those unfamiliar with language of, and without a grounding in, philosophy. While there are now numerous and important introductory and applied critical realist texts that make critical realism more accessible to a broader audience, stories from newcomers have been absent – especially as part of a single collection. The significance and uniqueness of this collection lies in its documentation of first-hand reflective insights on the practical use and implementation of critical realism. The contributors feature critical realist inspired research journeys in Australia, England, Scotland, Belgium, Sweden, and Spain. The hope of this book is that the stories and accounts presented in it will inspire – or at least sufficiently arouse – the curiosity of others to explore critical realist possibilities, which we believe offer enormous value to serious researchers across and within all disciplines and subjects who are interested in rigorous intellectual work with a socially progressive purpose.

Modernity and the Pandemic

Sean Creaven
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Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003818175

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Modernity and the Pandemic by Sean Creaven Pdf

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to the pandemic. The book focuses on key themes integral to a sociology of pandemics in the ‘global’ age. Firstly, Creaven argues that cultures of individualism and consumerism, and of pervasive and deeply entrenched social inequalities (i.e. decivilization) significantly weaken the cause of public health by weakening the compliance of people with state-mandated non-pharmaceutical interventions (including and especially physical distancing rules) and encouraging vaccine hesitancy. Secondly, Creaven examines how interstate competition and imperial politics has undermined an effective global policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy failure with regard to the management of the pandemic is interpreted as being rooted in the dominance of neoliberal ideology and governance in the politics of international relations, particularly in the politics of the leading state actors, by protection of corporate interests at the expense of public health, and in the constraints imposed on state actors by the competitive dynamic of multinational capitalism in the ‘global’ age. Modernity and the Pandemic will appeal to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with interests in neoliberalism and its social, cultural and epidemiological impacts.

Critical Realism and Spirituality

Mervyn Hartwig,Jamie Morgan
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Author : Mervyn Hartwig,Jamie Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134005284

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Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes, delineates, explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism, which has been under way since the mid-1990s, as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussion and anaysis of the following broad questions: How does critical realism allow and facilitate the resolution of problems in the area of comparative religion? Can it help you to justify your own faith or belief? What are the implications of the new philosophy of meta-Reality for traditional religious studies and how we organize and conduct our lives? A range of distinguished critical realists, theological critical realists and scholars working with related approaches (Roland Benedikter, Roy Bhaskar, Terry Eagleton, Mervyn Hartwig, Alister McGrath, Markus Molz, Jamie Morgan, Andrew Wright and others) bring their talents to bear on this task. While their personal beliefs span the whole spectrum from theism to atheism, they are united by the desire to open up a space for dialogue of one kind or another (intra-faith, inter-faith and/or extra-faith), promoting mutual understanding, respect and the unity and capability for collective emancipatory action on a global scale that humanity is so sorely in need of. This book is therefore, essential reading for students and academics alike in Religous Studies, Theology and Philosophy.

Rethinking Marxism

Jolyon Agar
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Author : Jolyon Agar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317834618

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First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden

Alpesh Maisuria
Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden Book PDF

Author : Alpesh Maisuria
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351976770

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Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called ‘Swedish model’ from its inception to its current neoliberalisation, Maisuria explores the contours of class as part of social democratic history, culture and education, especially against the alternatives of communism and fascism. Presenting empirical research on class consciousness within a higher education context, Maisuria analyses student testimonies on their perceptions of social democracy and ‘Swedishness’ with ethno-racial dynamics, which is subjected to a Gramscian and Critical Realist derived explanatory critique for social transformation.

The Return of Nature

John Bellamy Foster
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Author : John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583679289

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The Return of Nature by John Bellamy Foster Pdf

Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx, it commenced an intellectual and social history, encompassing thinkers from Epicurus to Darwin, who developed materialist and ecological ideas. Now, with The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Foster continues this narrative. In so doing, he uncovers a long history of efforts to unite issues of social justice and environmental sustainability that will help us comprehend and counter today’s unprecedented planetary emergencies. The Return of Nature begins with the deaths of Darwin (1882) and Marx (1883) and moves on until the rise of the ecological age in the 1960s and 1970s. Foster explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Frederick Engels to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen J. Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism. In the process, he delivers a far-reaching and fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology. Ultimately, what this book asks for is nothing short of revolution: a long, ecological revolution, aimed at making peace with the planet while meeting collective human needs.

Dialectic and Difference

Alan Norrie
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Author : Alan Norrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135260774

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Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. This text is essential reading for all serious students of social theory, philosophy, and legal theory.