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Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

By Sean Creaven

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
ISBN
0415547601, 9780415547604
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1350867 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
Edition
1
Pages
412\0
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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.

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