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Marx and the New Individual (RLE Marxism)

Ian Forbes
Marx and the New Individual RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : Ian Forbes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317503217

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Marx and the New Individual (RLE Marxism) by Ian Forbes Pdf

In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx’s attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx’s thought. The radical possibilities of individual agency in society are explored within a Marxian framework, and without recourse to the current fashions of methodological individualism or rational choice theory. In the context of the apparent antagonism between collectivist and individualist approaches to political explanation and social change, the author establishes that a ‘New Individual’, of singular importance for the understanding of contemporary society, can be identified. For the first time, the Grundrisse provides the basis of a major analysis of Marx’s thoughts on the individual. By illustrating the nature of the connections between collective existence and individual experience, Ian Forbes makes an important contribution towards the revitalization of socialist thought. He also develops a valuable counterpoint to rational actor models of politics and liberal theories of justice alike, by establishing the importance of a political theory that values human agency as much as it understands social and historical processes.

Marx's Construction of Social Theory (RLE Marxism)

J.M. Barbalet
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Author : J.M. Barbalet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317499558

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Marx's Construction of Social Theory (RLE Marxism) by J.M. Barbalet Pdf

This study, first published in 1983, explores the connections between Marx’s philosophy and his empirical analysis of society and state, by showing the different meanings of many of Marx’s concepts as their role in his theory changes and the theory itself develops. Beginning with an examination of Marx’s search for a sound epistemological basis on which to build a social theory, Dr Barbalet then gives an analysis of the way in which Marx continually modifies the concepts he uses, and continues with an examination of the different functions they are given in different theoretical settings. Various nuances of Marx’s thought, often obscured by the simplistic ‘early-late’ dichotomy, are revealed by Dr Barbalet’s close attention to the progressive transformation of Marx’s concepts and by his scrupulous analysis of them in not only their textual but also their theoretical context. Finally, the book examines the manner in which Marx’s construction of social theory, by its very nature, means that some material is replaced by other theoretical fabric as the theoretical structure itself is in different ways dismantled and reorganised, as Marx’s thought evolves and develops.

Marx's Proletariat (RLE Marxism)

David W. Lovell
Marx s Proletariat RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : David W. Lovell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317497783

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Marx's Proletariat (RLE Marxism) by David W. Lovell Pdf

George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that ‘If there is hope, it lies in the proles.’ A century earlier Marx was unequivocal: the future belonged to the proletariat. Today such confidence might seem misplaced. The proletariat has not yet fulfilled Marx’s expectations, and seems unlikely ever to do so. How could Marx have entertained the notion that the proletariat would emancipate humanity from capitalism and from class rule itself? This book, first published in 1988, attempts an explanation by examining the sources and development of Marx’s concept of the proletariat. It contends that this was not only a crucial element in Marx’s theory but a significant departure in socialist thought. By examining this concept in detail the book uncovers a major contradiction in Marxian thought: although the proletariat is assigned a momentous task it is chiefly depicted as the class of suffering which is why, historically, it has preferred security to enterprise.

Marx's Construction of Social Theory (RLE Marxism)

J.M. Barbalet
Marx s Construction of Social Theory RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : J.M. Barbalet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317499541

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Marx's Construction of Social Theory (RLE Marxism) by J.M. Barbalet Pdf

This study, first published in 1983, explores the connections between Marx’s philosophy and his empirical analysis of society and state, by showing the different meanings of many of Marx’s concepts as their role in his theory changes and the theory itself develops. Beginning with an examination of Marx’s search for a sound epistemological basis on which to build a social theory, Dr Barbalet then gives an analysis of the way in which Marx continually modifies the concepts he uses, and continues with an examination of the different functions they are given in different theoretical settings. Various nuances of Marx’s thought, often obscured by the simplistic ‘early-late’ dichotomy, are revealed by Dr Barbalet’s close attention to the progressive transformation of Marx’s concepts and by his scrupulous analysis of them in not only their textual but also their theoretical context. Finally, the book examines the manner in which Marx’s construction of social theory, by its very nature, means that some material is replaced by other theoretical fabric as the theoretical structure itself is in different ways dismantled and reorganised, as Marx’s thought evolves and develops.

The Philosophy of Marx (RLE Marxism)

William Leon McBride
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Author : William Leon McBride
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317504146

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The Philosophy of Marx (RLE Marxism) by William Leon McBride Pdf

This book, first published in 1977, presents for the first time a serious and systematic assessment of Marx primarily as a philosopher. It considers all major aspects of Marx’s theory – its methodology, its ontological dimensions, its approaches to the descriptions of history and of societies and their economic structures, its alleged predictions and its vision of the future – as well as some of its intellectual antecedents and twentieth-century heirs. The presentation of Marx’s ideas attempts to be at once faithful to them, as distinguished from their reinterpretations by later ‘Marxists’, and yet novel in form and language. From this unique standpoint, the book aims to bring the student of philosophy and of political ideas to a closer understanding of the intellectual foundations of Marx’s Capital and his writings in collaboration with Engels.

Marx's 'Grundrisse' and Hegel's 'Logic' (RLE Marxism)

Hiroshi Uchida
Marx s Grundrisse and Hegel s Logic RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : Hiroshi Uchida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317497837

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Marx's 'Grundrisse' and Hegel's 'Logic' (RLE Marxism) by Hiroshi Uchida Pdf

Marx’s Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx’s early and late work. It is also a crucial text in elucidating Marx’s debt to the idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. This book, first published in 1988, is the first full-length study of that relationship, in a thorough textual analysis which makes the connections explicit and also the Grundrisse’s relations to the works of Adam Smith and Aristotle. This book argues that Marx’s critique of political economy, and his critique of Hegel, are double interrelated. Not only did Marx adapt Hegelian logic in order to analyse the economic categories crucial to modern society but it is argued that those logical categories were themselves seen as reflections of the productive processes of contemporary commercial society. Uchida reveals a conceptual structure common to the apparently rarefied world of Hegelian conceptual logic and to the supposedly common-sensical world of economic science. Demonstrating this is a considerable achievement, and it allows us to consider precisely what is valuable today in Marx’s critical commentary on this conceptual structure and on the type of society in which it is manifested. Uchida’s subject, like Marx’s, is ‘the force of capital on modern life’.

Marxism, Class Analysis and Socialist Pluralism (RLE Marxism)

Les Johnston
Marxism Class Analysis and Socialist Pluralism RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : Les Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317502609

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Marxism, Class Analysis and Socialist Pluralism (RLE Marxism) by Les Johnston Pdf

This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy – Marxism – to sustained criticism. Les Johnston argues that Marxism cannot provide the foundations for a rigorous socialist theory or an effective socialist politics. A fundamental element of this criticism is the suggestion that the problem of ‘reductionism’ which has preoccupied Marxists is a red herring. Marxism’s problem is not its reductionism but its theoretical incoherence. Marxism is not ‘deterministic’, for there is invariably an indeterminate relationship between the materialism it invokes and the forms of politics it adopts. However, materialism is an obstacle to socialist theory. The contradictions and failures of Marxist class analysis suggest that the class concept is inadequate to the demands that socialists continue to place on it. It is not merely class which is problematic, however, but the conception of political interests which is associated with it. Even recent Marxist ‘revisionists’ who dispense with class primacy are unwilling to come to terms with the question of how socialist political interests are constituted. Socialist theory has to recognise the varied forces and interests on ‘the left’, and an effective socialism will have to be a pluralistic one. This means there can be no general theory of socialism, since a pluralistic socialism has to be able to adjust to varying social conditions.

Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis (RLE Marxism)

Gavin Kitching
Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : Gavin Kitching
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317498827

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Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis (RLE Marxism) by Gavin Kitching Pdf

In this major study, first published in 1988, Professor Kitching builds on recent scholarship on Marx and Wittgenstein to provide an incisive, readable account and critique of the whole of Marx’s work. He presents the philosophical, economic, and political Marx as one thinker, and argues that the key to understanding Marx is his commitment to a ‘philosophy of praxis’. This sees thought as just part of that purposive activity (or praxis) which distinguishes human beings from other creatures. This is the first book to analyse all of Marx’s thought from a Wittgenstein perspective; in doing so, it clarifies and deepens our understanding of Marx.

Marx's Theory of Ideology (RLE Marxism)

Bhikhu Parekh
Marx s Theory of Ideology RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : Bhikhu Parekh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317499121

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Marx's Theory of Ideology (RLE Marxism) by Bhikhu Parekh Pdf

Although Marx’s concept of ideology has been a subject of considerable discussion, much of the debate has proved to be rather disappointing. There has been no systematic attempt to examine why Marx needed the concept of ideology, why it was an important concept for him and how it related to his views on truth and objectivity. This book, first published in 1982, considers these and other neglected questions. It explains why Marx continued to use the term ideology throughout his life to mean both idealism and apologia and traces the complex ways in which, according to Marx, such talented writers as Hegel became apologists. In conclusion the book outlines the lessons Marx learnt from his investigations into the nature and mechanism of ideology and discusses his theories of objectivity and truth.

Marxism and the Human Individual

Adam Schaff
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Author : Adam Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Dialectical materialism
ISBN : UCAL:B3920580

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Marxism and the Human Individual by Adam Schaff Pdf

Today more than ever Marxism is profoundly in need of a full and precise modern reappraisal. In his belief that this may only be accomplished along with an examination of the "humanistic" young Marx, Adam Schaff presents in this volume an illumination of the thinker's early work and its relationship to the world-shaking economic philosophy that stemmed from it.

Marxism & the Open Mind (RLE Marxism)

John Lewis
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Author : John Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317496977

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Marxism & the Open Mind (RLE Marxism) by John Lewis Pdf

It has been said that the normal English reaction to uncomfortable facts of life, such as Marxism, is an embarrassed but determined silence. That anyone should experience a desire to enquire into ideas as such, and to probe into the motives influencing them, seems extraordinary. Marxism is, however, subjected to a close study in this book, first published in 1957, and the collected essays attempt the task of combining certain elements in the heritage of modern culture with the insights of Marxism. There can be no vital thinking for our age that does not do justice to both traditions.

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism (RLE Marxism)

Eugene Kamenka
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Author : Eugene Kamenka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317503873

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The Ethical Foundations of Marxism (RLE Marxism) by Eugene Kamenka Pdf

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, first published in 1962 and corrected and revised for a 1972 edition, examines carefully and critically the origin, precise nature and subsequent role of Marx’s ethical beliefs. Drawing freely on Marx’s still largely untranslated philosophical works and drafts the author elicits the ethical presuppositions with which Marx began. He then examines the intellectual development that made Marx a Communist and seeks to clarify the place of Marx’s ethic in his mature, ‘materialist’ work. Professor Kamenka distinguishes sharply between the critical, ethical views of Marx and the inept, conventional applications of his doctrine by Engels. He appraises the ‘ethics’ of the Communist Party and traces the development of the moral and legal theory in the Soviet Union. He concludes by subjecting Marxism as a whole to a radical, ethical and philosophical criticism for which Marx himself laid some of the foundations.

The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx (RLE Marxism)

David MacGregor
The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : David MacGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317485131

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The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx (RLE Marxism) by David MacGregor Pdf

One reader has called this study, first published in 1984, ‘easily the best book on the relation of Hegel to Marx’. With spirited argument, MacGregor demonstrates that Hegelian logic suited Marx’s purpose so well because it already contained the unique elements that later appeared in Marx’s social theory, including the notions of surplus value and the transition to communism. The most exciting thing about the book is the clear demonstration that the mature Marx gets ever closer to Hegel, and is increasingly indebted to him. In short, the author gives us a new Hegel and a new Marx. In a manner both original and penetrating, MacGregor shows that dialectical logic is pre-eminently social logic, a reconstruction in thought of social relationships and social structure. Central to the work is the examination of the Philosophy of Right, in which Hegel delineated a theory of modern capitalist society. MacGregor provides a compelling analysis of Hegel’s importance for Lenin and a strong caveat that contemporary Marxism ignores Hegel to its own peril. MacGregor establishes that Hegel’s absolute idealism is founded on a theory of the dialectics of labour similar to Marx’s historical materialism. Another significant discovery elucidates Hegel’s concept of poverty as the missing link which joins Marx’s formulation to classical liberal theory.

Marx's Theory of Ideology (RLE Marxism)

Bhikhu Parekh
Marx s Theory of Ideology RLE Marxism Book PDF

Author : Bhikhu Parekh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317499138

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Marx's Theory of Ideology (RLE Marxism) by Bhikhu Parekh Pdf

Although Marx’s concept of ideology has been a subject of considerable discussion, much of the debate has proved to be rather disappointing. There has been no systematic attempt to examine why Marx needed the concept of ideology, why it was an important concept for him and how it related to his views on truth and objectivity. This book, first published in 1982, considers these and other neglected questions. It explains why Marx continued to use the term ideology throughout his life to mean both idealism and apologia and traces the complex ways in which, according to Marx, such talented writers as Hegel became apologists. In conclusion the book outlines the lessons Marx learnt from his investigations into the nature and mechanism of ideology and discusses his theories of objectivity and truth.

Gramsci and Marxist Theory (RLE: Gramsci)

Chantal Mouffe
Gramsci and Marxist Theory RLE Gramsci Book PDF

Author : Chantal Mouffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317744382

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Gramsci and Marxist Theory (RLE: Gramsci) by Chantal Mouffe Pdf

This book familiarizes the English-speaking reader with the debate on the originality of Gramsci’s thought and its importance for the development of Marxist theory. The contributors present the principal viewpoints regarding Gramsci’s theoretical contribution to Marxism, focussing in particular on his advances in the study of the superstructures, and discussing his relation to Marx and Lenin and his influence in Eurocommunism. Different interpretations are put forward concerning the elucidation of Gramsci’s key concepts, namely: hegemony, integral state, war of position and passive revolution.