Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure (RLE Marxism)

Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure (RLE Marxism)
Author: H.T. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-04-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317499190

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This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of humans as collective, cultural and historical beings, Marx undertook a radical critique of the theoretical/analytical method of his predecessors and his contemporaries in political economy, philosophy and the natural sciences. While elements of the methods of some of these thinkers – most conspicuously from the work of Aristotle, Kant and Hegel – were present in Marx’s thought, he achieved a new synthesis of procedural, epistemological and ontological methods.

Marx's Critical/dialectical Procedure

Marx's Critical/dialectical Procedure
Author: H. T. Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781315712840

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This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of humans as collective, cultural and historical beings, Marx undertook a radical critique of the theoretical/analytical method of his predecessors and his contemporaries in political economy, philosophy and the natural sciences. While elements of the methods of some of these thinkers - most conspicuously from the work of Aristotle, Kant and Hegel - were present in Marx's thought, he achieved a new synthes.

Marx and Whitehead

Marx and Whitehead
Author: Anne Fairchild Pomeroy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0791485617

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Marx and Whitehead boldly asks us to reconsider capitalism, not merely as an "economic system" but as a fundamentally self-destructive mode that, by its very nature and operation, undermines the cohesive fabric of human existence. Author Anne Fairchild Pomeroy asserts that it is impossible to appreciate fully the impact of Marx's critique of capitalism without understanding the philosophical system that underlies it. Alfred North Whitehead's work is used to forge a systematic link between process philosophy and dialectical materialism via the category of production. Whitehead's process thought brings Marx's philosophical vision into sharper focus. This union provides the grounds for Pomeroy's claim that the heart of Marx's critique of capitalism is fundamentally ontological, and that therefore the necessary condition for genuine human flourishing lies in overcoming the capitalist form of social relations.

Marx's Scientific Dialectics

Marx's Scientific Dialectics
Author: Paul B. Paolucci
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2007-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9047420977

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While Karl Marx's ideas remain influential in the social sciences, there is considerable disagreement and debate on the methodological principles that inform his work. Marx often aligned himself with both "scientific" and "dialectical" principles, at least once referring to his method as a "scientific dialectic," suggesting he believed dialectical reason could be incorporated into scientific method. By debunking several misconceptions about Marx’s work and examining how he brought scientific methods to bear on his general sociological thinking, his materialist historical perspective, and within his political economy, this book brings new insight to the methodological principles that animate Marx’s writings. What emerges from such a perspective is an approach to sociological inquiry that remains vital and useful for contemporary research on capitalist society and its possible futures.

How Language Informs Mathematics

How Language Informs Mathematics
Author: Dirk Damsma
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004395490

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In How Language Informs Mathematics Dirk Damsma shows how Hegel’s and Marx’s dialectics allow us to understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. Knowledge of such systems allows for an innovative approach to economic modelling.

Dance of the Dialectic

Dance of the Dialectic
Author: Bertell Ollman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780252071188

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Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of dialectical method. Marx made extremely creative use of dialectical method to analyze the origins, operation, and direction of capitalism. Unfortunately, his promised book on method was never written, so that readers wishing to understand and evaluate Marx's theories, or to revise or use them, have had to proceed without a clear grasp of the dialectic in which the theories are framed. The result has been more disagreement over "what Marx really meant" than over the writings of any other major thinker. In putting Marx's philosophy of internal relations and his use of the process of abstraction--two little-studied aspects of dialectics--at the center of this account, Ollman provides a version of Marx's method that is at once systematic, scholarly, clear and eminently useful. Ollman not only sheds important new light on what Marx really meant in his varied theoretical pronouncements, but in carefully laying out the steps in Marx's method makes it possible for a reader to put the dialectic to work in his or her own research. He also convincingly argues the case for why social scientists and humanists as well as philosophers should want to do so.

Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity

Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity
Author: Guido Starosta
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004306609

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In Marx ́s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Guido Starosta develops a materialist inquiry into the social and historical determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Through a methodologically-minded critical reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy, from the early writings up to the Grundrisse and Capital, this study shows that the outcome of the historical movement of the objectified form of social mediation, which has turned into the very alienated subject of social life (i.e., capital), is to develop, as its own immanent determination, the constitution of the (self-abolishing) working class as a revolutionary subject. A crucial element in this intellectual endeavour is the focus on the intrinsic connection between the specifically dialectical form of social science and its radical transformative content.

Emergentist Marxism

Emergentist Marxism
Author: Sean Creaven
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136013423

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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.

Dialectics of Human Nature in Marx's Philosophy

Dialectics of Human Nature in Marx's Philosophy
Author: M. Tabak
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137043148

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A scholarly exploration of Marx's thought without any favorable or critical ideological agendas, this book opposes the compartmentalization of Marx's thought into various competing doctrines, such as historical materialism, dialectical materialism, and different forms of economic determinism.