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The Violence of Abstraction : The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism

Derek Sayer

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Description:This original and provocative examination of the analytic fundamentals of historical materialism offers a challenging reassessment of Marx's social theory and a devastating critique of conventional Marxist thought. The fundamental concepts of Marxist sociology - forces and relations of production, economic structure and superstructure, property, class, ideology and state - are examined in detail. Unusually Sayer investigates these as they were actually used by Marx, in a wide variety of substantive analyses both of capitalist and pre-capitalist societies, and assesses the claims of historical materialism accordingly. He convincingly shows that standard Marxist interpretations of concepts are not only inconsistent with Marx's own analytic practice but examples of what Marx himself diagnosed as fetishisms.This book restores to Marx's materialism its dialectical philosophy, its empirical method and its humanist inspiration. Exhaustively documented, clearly written and lucidly argued by an author whose Marx's Method was described as 'written at a level of sophistication seldom found in English language works on Marx', this is a contribution of the utmost importance to the contemporary literature on Marx.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Violence of Abstraction : The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism. To get started finding The Violence of Abstraction : The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This original and provocative examination of the analytic fundamentals of historical materialism offers a challenging reassessment of Marx's social theory and a devastating critique of conventional Marxist thought. The fundamental concepts of Marxist sociology - forces and relations of production, economic structure and superstructure, property, class, ideology and state - are examined in detail. Unusually Sayer investigates these as they were actually used by Marx, in a wide variety of substantive analyses both of capitalist and pre-capitalist societies, and assesses the claims of historical materialism accordingly. He convincingly shows that standard Marxist interpretations of concepts are not only inconsistent with Marx's own analytic practice but examples of what Marx himself diagnosed as fetishisms.This book restores to Marx's materialism its dialectical philosophy, its empirical method and its humanist inspiration. Exhaustively documented, clearly written and lucidly argued by an author whose Marx's Method was described as 'written at a level of sophistication seldom found in English language works on Marx', this is a contribution of the utmost importance to the contemporary literature on Marx.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Violence of Abstraction : The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism. To get started finding The Violence of Abstraction : The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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