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... Space, Difference, Everyday Life presents a stateoftheart collection of essays engaging Henri Lefebvres oeuvre, explicating this inimitable French Marxists longstanding commitment to urbanize revolutionary theory and revolutionize urban theory. Belatedly, Lefebvres reputation has grown exponentially ...
... Space, Difference, Everyday Life presents a stateoftheart collection of essays engaging Henri Lefebvres oeuvre, explicating this inimitable French Marxists longstanding commitment to urbanize revolutionary theory and revolutionize urban theory. Belatedly, Lefebvres reputation has grown exponentially ...
social formation mode of production structural Marxism
... modernism on contemporary debates, I view this decline as a regressive aberration whose explanation must be sought in the politics rather than the validity of social theory. ...
... modernism on contemporary debates, I view this decline as a regressive aberration whose explanation must be sought in the politics rather than the validity of social theory. ...
The Emptiness of the Moral Law
... sary. But other ends and material grounds are not to be called upon. (NR 462/77) Hegel insists that the test provided by the FUL is nothing beyond the princi ple of contradiction, and that this is a test that any maxim can pass (EL § 54; PR § 135R). Kant does speak of a maxim's "contradicting" or " ...
... sary. But other ends and material grounds are not to be called upon. (NR 462/77) Hegel insists that the test provided by the FUL is nothing beyond the princi ple of contradiction, and that this is a test that any maxim can pass (EL § 54; PR § 135R). Kant does speak of a maxim's "contradicting" or " ...
alienation, naipaul and mr biswas
... of alienation, as Williamson and Cullingford put it: “Seeman and other American sociologists and socialpsychologists began to pay close attention to the concept, and it was this work that was to provide a valid paradigm for researches around the concept” (1997: 269). Melvin Seeman, in his paper On t ...
... of alienation, as Williamson and Cullingford put it: “Seeman and other American sociologists and socialpsychologists began to pay close attention to the concept, and it was this work that was to provide a valid paradigm for researches around the concept” (1997: 269). Melvin Seeman, in his paper On t ...
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology
... The irrationality of capitalism and the alienation of labour . ...
... The irrationality of capitalism and the alienation of labour . ...
book - University of Westminster Press
... First, open cultural Marxism can revisit some of the contributions to cultural Marxism in an open manner. The Frankfurt School is an important tradition in cultural Marxism. One should, however, not reify particular traditions or thinkers, but practice an open conversation between various Marxist ap ...
... First, open cultural Marxism can revisit some of the contributions to cultural Marxism in an open manner. The Frankfurt School is an important tradition in cultural Marxism. One should, however, not reify particular traditions or thinkers, but practice an open conversation between various Marxist ap ...
ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY MARXISM AND
... tools they need to assist employers with kinder, gentler layoffs? What do articles like this from a leading psychological organization say about the relationship between modern psychology and the existing economic order? Perhaps all this suggests is that modern psychology, like any other academic di ...
... tools they need to assist employers with kinder, gentler layoffs? What do articles like this from a leading psychological organization say about the relationship between modern psychology and the existing economic order? Perhaps all this suggests is that modern psychology, like any other academic di ...
A Philosophical History of German Sociology
... dual principles of the contingency and necessity of society: sociology rapidly understood that humans have the ability to make history freely, even as their history escapes them, either because they do not control it or because it controls them by imposing its own external laws. The founding experie ...
... dual principles of the contingency and necessity of society: sociology rapidly understood that humans have the ability to make history freely, even as their history escapes them, either because they do not control it or because it controls them by imposing its own external laws. The founding experie ...
The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... relation between happiness and achievement and/or sacrifice of self-interest? Based on both Aristotle’s and Marx’s views on these questions, the author argues that a comprehensive rather than a “correct” understanding of happiness should be taught to the students. Also, the author suggests that the ...
... relation between happiness and achievement and/or sacrifice of self-interest? Based on both Aristotle’s and Marx’s views on these questions, the author argues that a comprehensive rather than a “correct” understanding of happiness should be taught to the students. Also, the author suggests that the ...
Realism, Philosophy and Social Science
... to simply do it (whatever ‘it’ may be). It is almost inconceivable to think of any of the natural sciences fundamentally changing their practices as a result of developments from within the philosophy of science. If anything, when the philosophy of science conflicts with the practices of scientists ...
... to simply do it (whatever ‘it’ may be). It is almost inconceivable to think of any of the natural sciences fundamentally changing their practices as a result of developments from within the philosophy of science. If anything, when the philosophy of science conflicts with the practices of scientists ...
The spontaneous generation of excess and its capitalist capture
... assert that exploitation is fundamental not only to the workings of the capitalist system but, more importantly, to the production of excess. My inquiry into the nature of excess in capitalism is thus both historical and metaphysical. A historical standpoint towards the social formation is assumed t ...
... assert that exploitation is fundamental not only to the workings of the capitalist system but, more importantly, to the production of excess. My inquiry into the nature of excess in capitalism is thus both historical and metaphysical. A historical standpoint towards the social formation is assumed t ...
Positivism, Postmodernism, or Critical Theory? A Case Study of
... resource distribution and social struggles. Reality is seen in terms that address ownership, private property, resource distribution, social struggles, power, resource control, exploitation, and domination. In such an endeavour a reactualized notion of class is of central importance (cf. Fuchs 2008a ...
... resource distribution and social struggles. Reality is seen in terms that address ownership, private property, resource distribution, social struggles, power, resource control, exploitation, and domination. In such an endeavour a reactualized notion of class is of central importance (cf. Fuchs 2008a ...
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... The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship of nature and society. Questions to which possible answers should be given are: How are nature and society related? How are ecological problems connected to the functional logic of modern society? Which role does ecological thinking play in Marxis ...
... The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship of nature and society. Questions to which possible answers should be given are: How are nature and society related? How are ecological problems connected to the functional logic of modern society? Which role does ecological thinking play in Marxis ...
Karl Marx and the Classics
... human essence. But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations” (6th Thesis on Feuerbach). On this basis Marx formulated his concept of class struggle as the motive force of social evolution: “The history of all hi ...
... human essence. But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations” (6th Thesis on Feuerbach). On this basis Marx formulated his concept of class struggle as the motive force of social evolution: “The history of all hi ...
Bob`s Lecture Notes for Week 1
... (A) senses, conceptual in a non-psychological sense, articulated by material incompatibility, and H’s non-psychological sense of “conceptual articulation”: Hegel wants us to start with a notion of content, as something that can be common to its subjective form in thought and its objective form in fa ...
... (A) senses, conceptual in a non-psychological sense, articulated by material incompatibility, and H’s non-psychological sense of “conceptual articulation”: Hegel wants us to start with a notion of content, as something that can be common to its subjective form in thought and its objective form in fa ...
IR theory, historical materialism, and the false promise of
... between IR Theory and Historical Sociology, starting in the context of the postpositivist debate in the 1980s, has generated a proliferating repertory of contending paradigms within the field of IR, including Neo-Weberian, PostStructuralist, and Constructivist approaches. Within the Marxist literatu ...
... between IR Theory and Historical Sociology, starting in the context of the postpositivist debate in the 1980s, has generated a proliferating repertory of contending paradigms within the field of IR, including Neo-Weberian, PostStructuralist, and Constructivist approaches. Within the Marxist literatu ...
Kirn-post_fordism_and_its discontents
... to postworkerism and exposes the problematic of the idealist kernel of ‘living labour’. She also criticises Structuralist Marxism, which failed to address issues of agency and ideology of productivism. A similar theoretical stake, but coming from an external perspective, is elaborated by Gorazd Kov ...
... to postworkerism and exposes the problematic of the idealist kernel of ‘living labour’. She also criticises Structuralist Marxism, which failed to address issues of agency and ideology of productivism. A similar theoretical stake, but coming from an external perspective, is elaborated by Gorazd Kov ...
The Frankfurt School and its Critics (Tom Botto..
... experience of the rise of Fascism in Germany, the ‘critical theory’ developed by these men during this period was overwhelmingly concerned with the mounting irrationality of social and cultural values, and their reflection in the ideas of positivism and ‘scientism’. Herbert Marcuse’s version of ‘cri ...
... experience of the rise of Fascism in Germany, the ‘critical theory’ developed by these men during this period was overwhelmingly concerned with the mounting irrationality of social and cultural values, and their reflection in the ideas of positivism and ‘scientism’. Herbert Marcuse’s version of ‘cri ...
university of maiduguri - Unimaid, Centre for Distance Learning
... of ensuring the stable and prolonged social progress. They are of the belief that the crisis in capitalism is the crisis of “modern man” or modern science, the spiritual crisis of the age or the crisis of technological civilisation. This view is opposite to the Marxist view that the crisis is linked ...
... of ensuring the stable and prolonged social progress. They are of the belief that the crisis in capitalism is the crisis of “modern man” or modern science, the spiritual crisis of the age or the crisis of technological civilisation. This view is opposite to the Marxist view that the crisis is linked ...
Money, Interest, and Capital Accumulation in Karl Marx`s
... value defining the exchange relations of commodities cannot be determined by socially and historically unspecific categories, as the expenditure of concrete physical magnitudes of labour. For the substance of value in Marx’s economics, we rather get “abstract labour” which is constituted by exchange ...
... value defining the exchange relations of commodities cannot be determined by socially and historically unspecific categories, as the expenditure of concrete physical magnitudes of labour. For the substance of value in Marx’s economics, we rather get “abstract labour” which is constituted by exchange ...
Manifest Mutations, Manifesto Detourned
... THE autonomist manifesto could never be written. Such a thing is impossible, and would be rightly denied if it dared to announce itself. But one could write an autonomist manifesto, and under various titles, such manifestos have already been written. It is fair to say that this book, Precarious Comm ...
... THE autonomist manifesto could never be written. Such a thing is impossible, and would be rightly denied if it dared to announce itself. But one could write an autonomist manifesto, and under various titles, such manifestos have already been written. It is fair to say that this book, Precarious Comm ...
Fiction without Fantasy: Capital Fetishism as Objective Forgetting
... turn affirms capital fetishism in two major ways: first, the assumption that capital is something that we “have” or possess overlooks that capital is a relation and process, insofar as it can only function as capital if it is in circulation, in movement, and in returning. When Marx first introduces ...
... turn affirms capital fetishism in two major ways: first, the assumption that capital is something that we “have” or possess overlooks that capital is a relation and process, insofar as it can only function as capital if it is in circulation, in movement, and in returning. When Marx first introduces ...
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
... The dialectical method therefore requires that phenomena should be considered not only from the standpoint of their interconnection and interdependence, but also from the standpoint of their movement, their change, their development, their coming into being and going out of being. The dialectical m ...
... The dialectical method therefore requires that phenomena should be considered not only from the standpoint of their interconnection and interdependence, but also from the standpoint of their movement, their change, their development, their coming into being and going out of being. The dialectical m ...
historical materialism k
... the human subject, and its own historical analysis which focuses solely on moment of epistemic ruptures without adventuring into an explanation of its causes have left us with an image of “history without subject”. If the imperative of thinking about social institutions—sovereignty—in dynamic terms ...
... the human subject, and its own historical analysis which focuses solely on moment of epistemic ruptures without adventuring into an explanation of its causes have left us with an image of “history without subject”. If the imperative of thinking about social institutions—sovereignty—in dynamic terms ...
marx`s economic theory and contemporary capitalism
... 18. However, Marx’s theory argues that there are inherent limits to the increase in the profit produced by each worker. The main limit is that there are only so many hours in the working day, and so it becomes harder and harder to increase the profit produced by each worker in a given working day. A ...
... 18. However, Marx’s theory argues that there are inherent limits to the increase in the profit produced by each worker. The main limit is that there are only so many hours in the working day, and so it becomes harder and harder to increase the profit produced by each worker in a given working day. A ...
Marxist philosophy
Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew out of various sources, and the official philosophy in the Soviet Union, which enforced a rigid reading of Marx called dialectical materialism, in particular during the 1930s.Marxist philosophy is not a strictly defined sub-field of philosophy, because the diverse influence of Marxist theory has extended into fields as varied as aesthetics, ethics, ontology, epistemology, theoretical psychology and philosophy of science, as well as its obvious influence on political philosophy and the philosophy of history. The key characteristics of Marxism in philosophy are its materialism and its commitment to political practice as the end goal of all thought.Marxist theorist Louis Althusser, for example, defined philosophy as ""class struggle in theory"", thus radically separating himself from those who claimed philosophers could adopt a ""God's eye view"" as a purely neutral judge.