Emergentist Marxism

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Author_Sean Creaven
Bhaskar's Critical Realist
Bhaskar's Dialectic
Bhaskar's Dialectical Critical Realism
Bhaskar's Transformational Model
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Bhaskar’s Critical Realist
Bhaskar’s Dialectic
Bhaskar’s Dialectical Critical Realism
Bhaskar’s Transformational Model
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class conflict theory
Classical Marxist Tradition
Compatibility Thesis
Contradiction Thesis
critical
critical realism
Critical Realist Social Theory
Development Thesis
dialectic
dialectical
Dialectical Critical Realism
dialectical social theory application
Emergentist Marxism
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evolutionary social systems
historical materialism
Left Darwinians
Marx's Historical Sociology
marxian
Marx’s Historical Sociology
materialism
Materialist Dialectics
Materialist Diffraction
Ontological Monovalence
power relations analysis
preservative
Preservative Sublation
realism
realist
Social Malintegration
social stratification
socio-historical
Socio-historical Materialism
Synchronic Emergent Powers Materialism
Transcendental Dialectical Critical Realism
Tributary Mode
Vice Versa

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415395069
  • Weight: 742g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Mar 2007
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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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