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Marx and the Politics of Abstraction (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

By Paul Paolucci

Book information

Publisher
Brill Leiden-Boston
Year
2011
ISBN
9004201378, 9789004201378
Google Books ID
JaU_YgEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1921174 bytes)
Series
Studies in Critical Social Sciences 31
Pages
252\252
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Many scholars see science and politics as mutually exclusive, where the latter's influence contaminates the former's purity. Karl Marx's detractors often criticize him on these grounds. Paolucci shows that through his method of critique, Marx incorporates the relations of knowledge and power into abstractions and traces their historical movement. This corrective more readily lays bare capitalist society’s exploitative nature.

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