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Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory
Contributor(s): Creaven, Sean (Author)
ISBN: 0415395062     ISBN-13: 9780415395069
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2007
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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
 
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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.