History And Structure

Author : Kojin Karatani
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376682

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The Structure of World History by Kojin Karatani Pdf

In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global society, and the possibilities for superseding it. In The Structure of World History, he traces different modes of exchange, including the pooling of resources that characterizes nomadic tribes, the gift exchange systems developed after the adoption of fixed-settlement agriculture, the exchange of obedience for protection that arises with the emergence of the state, the commodity exchanges that characterize capitalism, and, finally, a future mode of exchange based on the return of gift exchange, albeit modified for the contemporary moment. He argues that this final stage—marking the overcoming of capital, nation, and state—is best understood in light of Kant's writings on eternal peace. The Structure of World History is in many ways the capstone of Karatani's brilliant career, yet it also signals new directions in his thought.

Author : Paul A. Roth
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810140899

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The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation by Paul A. Roth Pdf

In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth situates narrative explanations within a naturalistic framework and develops a nonrealist (irrealist) metaphysics and epistemology of history—arguing that there exists no one fixed past, but many pasts. The book includes a novel reading of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, showing how it offers a narrative explanation of theory change in science. This book will be of interest to researchers in historiography, philosophy of history, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and epistemology.

Author : Istvan Meszaros
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781583672679

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Social Structure and Forms of Conciousness, Volume 2 by Istvan Meszaros Pdf

In The Dialectic of Structure and History, Volume Two of Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, István Mészáros brings the comprehension of our condition and the possibility of emancipatory social action beyond the highest point reached to date. Building on the indicatory flashes of conceptual lightning in the Grundrisse and other works of Karl Marx, Mészáros sets out the relations of structure and agency, individual and society, base and superstructure, nature and history, in a dialectical totality open to the future. The project is brought to its conclusion by means of critique, an analysis that shows not only the inadequacies of the thought critiqued but at the same time their social historical cause. The crucial questions are addressed through critique of the highest point of honest and brilliant thought in capital’s ascending phase, that of Adam Smith, Kant, and Hegel, as well as the irrationalities and dishonesty of the apologists of the capital system’s descending phase, such as Hayek and Popper. The dead ends of both Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism and post-modernism, arising from their denial of history, are placed in their context as capital-apologetics. What Mészáros, the leading Marxist philosopher of our times, has achieved is of world historical importance. He has cleared the philosophical ground to permit the illumination of a path to transcend the destructive death spiral of the capital system.

Author : Alex Callinicos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789047404767

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Making History by Alex Callinicos Pdf

This republication gives a new generation of readers access to an important intervention in Marxism and social theory. Making History is about the question of how human agents draw their powers from the social structures they are involved in.

Author : John L. Finlay,Douglas N. Sprague
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice Hall Allyn and Bacon Canada
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029134611

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The Structure of Canadian History by John L. Finlay,Douglas N. Sprague Pdf

Designed for courses on Pre and Post Confederation History of Canada. Finlay/Sprague is the only combined Pre/Post Confederation introductory textbook available in the Introductory Canadian History market. As a combined text, it offers a significant price advantage over competing split volumes. This text takes a political and sociological approach to Canadian history, and has been updated to include recent analysis of historical events. Written within in a solid chronological framework, the text provides a clear, comprehensive survey of the subject and good integration between traditional and new approaches to history. This text will prepare students well in the basic chronologies of Canadian history while providing the most up-to-date tools for research through its weblinks.

Author : Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824845278

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The Korean Alphabet by Young-Key Kim-Renaud Pdf

The Korean alphabet, commonly known as han'gul, has been called one of the greatest intellectual achievements of humankind. Experts agree that few writing systems can match its simplicity and efficiency, its elegance and intelligence. The only alphabet completely native to East Asia, han'gul distinguishes itself among writing systems of the world with its scientific qualities and unusual linguistic fit to the Korean language. Most strikingly, the theoretical underpinnings of the language, as well as the time and circumstances of its creation, are clearly known and recorded. Han'gul was invented in 1443 and promulgated in 1446 by King Sejong (1418-1450), sage ruler of the Yi dynasty (1392-1910). This volume, the first book-length work on han'gul in English by Korean-language specialists, is comprised of ten essays by the most active scholars of the Korean writing system. An instructive commentary by eminent linguist Samuel Martin follows, offering perceptive comments on the essays as well as a discussion on Martin's own research findings on the script.

Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469608860

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The Structure of Cuban History by Louis A. Pérez Jr. Pdf

In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement--of the promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future--contributed to the development in the early republic of a political culture shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of 1959 as the triumph of history. In this capstone book, Perez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Polity
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745630120

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History and Freedom by Theodor W. Adorno Pdf

"Early in the 1960s Adorno gave four courses of lectures on the road leading to Negative Dialectics, his magnum opus of 1966. The second of these was concerned with the topics of history and freedom. In terms of content, these lectures represented an early version of the chapters in Negative Dialectics devoted to Kant and Hegel. In formal terms, these were improvised lectures that permit us to glimpse a philosophical work in progress." -- Cover, p. [4].

Author : Douglass Cecil North
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 039395241X

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Structure and Change in Economic History by Douglass Cecil North Pdf

In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change.

Author : John L. Finlay,Douglas N. Sprague
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall Canada
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039527580

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The Structure of Canadian History by John L. Finlay,Douglas N. Sprague Pdf

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520047702

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Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual by Walter Burkert Pdf

"Tantalizingly rich . . . this is a splendid book."--Greece and Rome "Burken relegates his learned documentation to the notes and writes in a lively and fluent style. The book is recommended as a major contribution to the interpretation of ancient Greek myth and ritual. The breadth alone of Burkert's learning renders his book indispensable."--Classical Outlook "Impressive. . . founded on a striking knowledge of the complex evidence (literary, epigraphical, archaeological, comparative) for this extensive subject. Burkert offers a rare combination of exact scholarship with imagination and even humor. A brilliant book, in which . . .the reader can see at every point what is going on in the author's mind--and that is never uninteresting, and rarely unimportant."--Times Literary Supplement "Burkert's work is of such magnitude and depth that it may even contribute to that most difficult of tasks, defining myth, ritual, and religion. . [He] locates his work in the context of culture and the historv of ideas, and he is not hesitant to draw on sociology and biology. Consequently his work is of significance for philosophers, historians, and even theologians, as well as for classicists and historians of Greek culture. His hypotheses are courageous and his conclusions are bold; both establish standards for methodology as well as results. "--Religious Studies Review

Author : Robert Wiedersheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089257828

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The Structure of Man by Robert Wiedersheim Pdf

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226287027

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Plough, Sword, and Book by Ernest Gellner Pdf

Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.

Author : Philip Pomper
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0231516266

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The Structure of Mind in History by Philip Pomper Pdf

The Structure of Mind in History

Author : William Rehg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262264464

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Cogent Science in Context by William Rehg Pdf

A proposal for an interdisciplinary, context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds Jürgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism. Recent years have seen a series of intense, increasingly acrimonious debates over the status and legitimacy of the natural sciences. These “science wars” take place in the public arena—with current battles over evolution and global warming—and in academia, where assumptions about scientific objectivity have been called into question. Given these hostilities, what makes a scientific claim merit our consideration? In Cogent Science in Context, William Rehg examines what makes scientific arguments cogent—that is, strong and convincing—and how we should assess that cogency. Drawing on the tools of argumentation theory, Rehg proposes a multidimensional, context-sensitive framework both for understanding the cogency of scientific arguments and for conducting cooperative interdisciplinary assessments of the cogency of actual scientific arguments. Rehg closely examines Jürgen Habermas's argumentation theory and its implications for understanding cogency, applying it to a case from high-energy physics. A series of problems, however, beset Habermas's approach. In response, Rehg outlines his own “critical contextualist” approach, which uses argumentation-theory categories in a new and more context-sensitive way inspired by ethnography of science.