Marxist Philosophy

Author : Étienne Balibar
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784786045

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The Philosophy of Marx by Étienne Balibar Pdf

Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state. Etienne Balibar opens a gateway into the thought of one of history's great minds. In this updated edition to this now classic work, Balibar has added a substantial introduction and new material. Complete with key "information boxes" for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand, this remains the best available introduction to the most important thinker of the past 200 years.

Author : Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134902408

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Philosophy of Nonsense by Jean-Jacques Lecercle Pdf

'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new book by Jean-Jacques Lecercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy.

Author : Wayne Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349042906

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The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch by Wayne Hudson Pdf

Author : J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317356202

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The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences by J. B. S. Haldane Pdf

This book, first published in 1938, is based upon the Muirhead lectures on political philosophy delivered in the University of Birmingham in January and February of 1938. This title was intended to be of interest to students and scientific workers in the belief that Marxism will prove valuable to them in their scientific work, as well as to a wider audience.

Author : Helena Sheehan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786634276

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Marxism and the Philosophy of Science by Helena Sheehan Pdf

A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science Sheehan retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that shaped it. Skilfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan shows how Marx and Engel’s ideas on the development and structure of natural science had a crucial impact on the work of early twentieth-century natural philosophers, historians of science, and natural scientists. With a new afterword by the author.

Author : Alex Callinicos
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Communism and philosophy.
ISBN : 0192851519

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Marxism and Philosophy by Alex Callinicos Pdf

Marxism began with the repudiation of philosophy, yet Marxists have often resorted to distinctively philosophical modes of reasoning. In recent years, Western Marxism has been more concerned with philosophy than with research or political activity, and in this book Callinicos explores the ambivalent relationship between Marxism and philosophy. Beginning with Marx and the legacy of Hegelianism, he surveys the schools of Marxist philosophy from Engels and the Second International through the revolutionary Hegelianism, of the 1920s, the Frankfurt School, and the anti-Hegelian Marxism of Adorno and Althusser.

Author : Étienne Balibar
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784786052

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The Philosophy of Marx by Étienne Balibar Pdf

A rich and accessible introduction to Marx’s fundamental concepts from a key intellectual—now updated Written by one of political theory’s leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state. Etienne Balibar opens a gateway into the thought of one of history’s great minds. In this updated edition to this now classic work, Balibar has added a substantial introduction and new material. Complete with key “information boxes” for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand, this remains the best available introduction to the most important thinker of the past 200 years.

Author : Teodor Ilʹich Oĭzerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Dialectical materialism
ISBN : OCLC:688067854

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The making of the Marxist philosophy by Teodor Ilʹich Oĭzerman Pdf

Author : Nick Knight
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402038068

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Marxist Philosophy in China : From Qu Qiubai to Mao Zedong, 1923-1945 by Nick Knight Pdf

This book recounts the history of Marxist philosophy in China between 1923 and 1945 through the writings and activities of four philosophers: Qu Qiubai, Ai Siqi, Li Da and Mao Zedong. Two of these philosophers – Qu and Mao – were also political activists and leaders, but their contribution to this history is as important, if not more so, than the contribution of Ai and Li who were predominantly philosophers and scholars. The inclusion of Qu and Mao underlines the intimate connection between philosophy and politics in the revolutionary movement in China. It is not possible to speak credibly of Marxist philosophy in China without considering the political context within which its introduction, elaboration and dissemination proceeded. Indeed, each of the philosophers considered in this book repudiated the notion that the study of philosophy was a scholastic intellectual exercise devoid of political significance. Each of these philosophers regarded himself as a revolutionary, and considered philosophy to be useful precisely because it could facilitate a comprehension of the world and so accelerate efforts to change it. By the same token, each of these philosophers took philosophy seriously; each bent his mind to the daunting task of mastering the arcane and labyrinthian philosophical system of dialectical materialism. Philosophy might well be political, they believed, but this was no excuse for philosophical dilettantism.

Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101566992

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Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones Pdf

A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The History of Philosophy by Alan Woods Pdf

Alan Woods outlines the development of philosophy from the ancient Greeks, all the way through to Marx and Engels who brought together the best of previous thinking to produce the Marxist philosophical outlook, which looks at the real material world, not as a static immovable reality, but one that is constantly changing and moving according to laws that can be discovered. It is this method which allows Marxists to look at how things were, how they have become and how they are most likely going to be in the future, in a long process which started with the early primitive humans in their struggles for survival, through to the emergence of class societies, all as part of a process towards greater and greater knowledge of the world we live in. This long historical process eventually created the material conditions which allow for an end to class divisions and the flowering of a new society where humans will achieve true freedom, where no human will exploit another, no human will oppress another. Here we see how philosophy becomes an indispensable tool in the struggle for the revolutionary transformation of society.

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474280556

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How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy by Louis Althusser Pdf

In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's provocative and, often, controversial guide to being a true Marxist philosopher. Althusser argues that philosophy needs Marxism. It can't exist fully without it. Similarly, Marxism requires the rigour and structures of philosophy to give it form and focus. He calls all thinking people to, 'Remember: a philosopher is a man who fights in theory, and when he understands the reasons for this fight, he joined the ranks of the struggle of workers and popular classes.' In short, this book comprises Althusser's elucidation of what praxis means and why it continues to matter. With a superb introduction from translator and Althusser archivist G.M. Goshgarian, this is a book that will re-inspire contemporary Marxist thought and reinvigorate our notions of what political activism can be.

Author : V. Afanasyev,George H. Hanna,Leo Lempert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0898751489

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Marxist Philosophy by V. Afanasyev,George H. Hanna,Leo Lempert Pdf

To define the subject-matter of Marxist philosophy we must examine the range of questions it studies and find out what sets it apart from other sciences.Throughout the many centuries of the development of philosophy its subject-matter has changed constantly. At first it embraced all the knowledge accumulated at the time - knowledge of the world as a whole, of its separate objects and phenomena, the Earth, man, animals, minerals, etc. Then as production developed and scientific knowledge was accumulated, the particular sciences separated into such individual branches of knowledge as mechanics, physics, chemistry, geology, and history. The dozens of branches of sciences in existence today study the most diverse spheres of reality.The main subject-matter of Marxist philosophy is the solution of the fundamental philosophical question, the relation of consciousness to being. As we already know, all philosophical systems must answer this question, but the only completely scientific, correct , and consistent answer is furnished by Marxist philosophy.The philosophy of Marxism is called dialectical materialism. It materialist because in solving the fundamental question of philosophy it proceeds from the premise that matte and being are primary and consciousness is secondary. It recognizes the materiality and knowability of the world, and studies the world as it really is. Marxist philosophy is dialectical, because it examines the material world in constant motion, development and regeneration.

Author : John Mepham,David-Hillel Ruben
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Communism
ISBN : UVA:X000035999

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Issues in Marxist Philosophy by John Mepham,David-Hillel Ruben Pdf

V. 1. Dialectics and method. -- v. 2. Materialism. -- v. 3. Epistemology, science, ideology. -- v.4. Social and political philosophy.

Author : Karl Marx ,Friedrich Engels ,Alan Woods ,V.I. Lenin ,Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Marxist Books
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism by Karl Marx ,Friedrich Engels ,Alan Woods ,V.I. Lenin ,Leon Trotsky Pdf

A Selection of Writings on Dialectical Materialism by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Plekhanov, and Luxemburg, and Alan Woods. Edited by John Peterson with an Introduction by Alan Woods. On the bicentennial of his birth, Karl Marx’s ideas are more relevant than ever. While he is perhaps best known for his writings on economics and history, anyone who wishes to have a fully rounded understanding of his method must strive to master dialectical materialism, which itself resulted from an assiduous study and critique of Hegel. Dialectical materialism is the logic of motion, development, and change. By embracing contradiction instead of trying to write it out of reality, dialectics allows Marxists to approach processes as they really are, not as we would like them to be. In this way we can understand and explain the essential class interests at stake in our fight against capitalist exploitation and oppression. At every decisive turning point in history, scientific socialists must go back to basics. Marxist theory represents the synthesized experience, historical memory, and guide to action of the working class. The Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism aims to arm the new generation of revolutionary socialists with these essential ideas.