Karl Marx, Anthropologist

Author: Thomas C. Patterson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100019017X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthropologist explores how this most influential of modern thinkers is still highly relevant for Anthropology today. Marx was profoundly influenced by critical Enlightenment thought. He believed that humans were social individuals that simultaneously satisfied and forged their needs in the contexts of historically particular social relations and created cultures. Marx continually refined the empirical, philosophical, and practical dimensions of his anthropology throughout his lifetime.Assessing key concepts, from the differences between class-based and classless societies to the roles of exploitation, alienation and domination in the making of social individuals, Karl Marx, Anthropologist is an essential guide to Marx's anthropological thought for the 21st century.

Marxism and Historical Practice (Vol. II)

Author: Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004301844
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
The two volumes of Marxism and Historical Practice bring together a wide range of essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years. Collected in Volume II, Interventions and Appreciations, are articles and reviews capturing the breadth of Palmer’s interests as a radical historian. Cultural forms and representational productions are analysed; political readings of historiography and pioneering historical practice provided. Themes as diverse as the analytic and political contributions of Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson, the conflicted legacies of American Trotskyism, and the representation of class politics in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York are covered.

Markets, Unemployment and Economic Policy

Author: Philip Arestis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134784244
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
In this volume more than 40 leading economists pay tribute to, and critically evaluate, Geoff Harcourt's work. Contributors include Tony Atkinson, Tony Lawson, Edward Nell and Ian Steedman.

Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics

Author: Kurt C. M. Mertel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350228656
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
Providing a comprehensive engagement with the work of Hans-Herbert Kögler, this is the first volume to expand upon and critique his distinctive approach to critical theory: critical hermeneutics. In the current climate of crisis, the relevance and fruitfulness of Kögler's work has never been greater, as he fuses the philosophies of Michel Foucault, Hans Georg Gadamer, and his mentor, Jürgen Habermas, to respond to critical international issues surrounding politics, agency, and society. Working towards a truly non-ethno-centric and global conception of intercultural dialogue, an essential aspect of Kögler's critical hermeneutics is his account of selfhood as reflexive: socially situated, embodied, and linguistically articulated, permeated by power, but yet critical and creative. Leading international scholars, representing a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, build upon Kögler's approach in this volume and explore the methodological, theoretical, and applicative scope of critical hermeneutics beyond the Frankfurt School. In doing so, they address some of the most pressing issues facing global society today, from multilingual education to the urgent need for interreligious and intercultural understanding. Closing with a response from Kögler himself, Hans-Herbert Kögler's Critical Hermeneutics also offers an exclusive account of the philosopher's contemporary re-appraisal of the core tenets of critical hermeneutics.

Requiem for Marx

Author: Yuri N. Maltsev
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610163494
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description

Marx's Concept of Money

Author: Anitra Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113467497X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
This work relates Marx's theory of money to his overall political economy, and places it firmly within the wider context of his political and philosophical thought. It has for some time been held that there exists an epistomological break between the early 'humanist' and later 'scientific' Marx. However, in this ground-breaking study Anitra Nelson links Marx's conecept of money to his early key concepts with particular reference to 'alienation'.

Karl Marx’s Grundrisse

Author:
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134073828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Postmodern Marx

Author: Terrell Carver
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042794
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Marx has changed. What we read, how we read and why we read Marx have all altered dramatically. This book explores these multiple new Marxes. In ten thematic chapters, Carver examines unfamiliar texts and new aspects of Marx's writings, ranging from vampires in Capital to his vision of communism in recently re-edited manuscripts. Marx's career in democratic politics is re-evaluated, and his relationship to the gender politics of his day and ours is explored. Most importantly, Carver re-assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Marx as a theorist and critic of capitalist society. This book will appeal to anyone who wants a fresh perspective on Marx, arising from a reconciliation of historical scholarship with the "de-centredness" of postmodern writing.

A Matter of Fate

Author: Dalya Cohen-Mor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190285370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Dalya Cohen-Mor examines the evolution of the concept of fate in the Arab world through readings of religious texts, poetry, fiction, and folklore. She contends that belief in fate has retained its vitality and continues to play a pivotal role in the Arabs' outlook on life and their social psychology. Interwoven with the chapters are 16 modern short stories that further illuminate this fascinating topic.

Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx

Author: Paul Zarembka
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004432701
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
Marx's oeuvre is vast yet with key elements to an evolving social theory, even including state conspiracies. Deep confrontation with Ricardian economics is an expression, including with accumulation of capital. Luxemburg was the most significant contributor to Marxism, post-Marx.