Marxism and Science – Analysis of an Obsession
Autor Gavin Kitchingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 1994
Marxism and Science breaks new ground by using Wittgensteinian analysis of Marxist discourse to construct a totally different conception of Marxism appropriate to the postmodern world. In this conception, Marxism is a point of view that can be advanced, rationally defended, and made convincing and persuasive to others, but that is as partial in some respects as any other political point of view. Reconceiving Marxism thus requires not only understanding language in a different nonobjectivist way but also adopting a new political practice and program, which the book proceeds to outline.
Marxism and Science concludes that, intellectually, Marxism as hard science is fairly obviously and profoundly untenable. But it goes on to argue that the purely intellectual grounds for this claim are much less interesting than the political and psychological purposes that such a claim has always served for Marxists in particular and scientific socialists in general. The most important of these purposes has been to provide a sort of psychological and emotional certitude to set against the overwhelming existential domination of capitalism in the world. Claiming this certitude to be as spurious as the arguments used to sustain it, the author calls upon Marxists and socialists to admit this and accept the doubt and uncertainty that come with a frank avowal of an open and unforeclosed future."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780271025803
ISBN-10: 0271025808
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Penn State University
ISBN-10: 0271025808
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Penn State University