Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory Contributor(s): Creaven, Sean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415395062 ISBN-13: 9780415395069 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
Dewey: 335.411 |
LCCN: 2010285501 |
Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism |
Physical Information: 412 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |