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1 online resource |
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Taking on the political |
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Taking on the political (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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| Contents |
Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; History and Event in Marxist Dialectics; Events and Historical Judgement after Althusser; Chapter Abstracts; PART I -- HISTORY AND EVENT IN MARXIST DIALECTICS; Chapter 1 -- Hegel's Leaps and the Historicist Theory of Knowledge; What is the Logic in the Science of Logic?; At the Limits of Pythagoreanism; The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics; Quality; Quantity; Measure; Hegel contra Cantor (On the Missing Irrationals); Chapter 2 -- Marx's Idea of Communist Transformation; Marx contra Contradiction; The Non-Historicist Logic of Capital |
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A Synthesis of Evolution and Revolution (with an Extra Element)The Ends of Dialectical Materialism; Chapter 3 -- Lenin's Philosophy: A New Dialectics of Revolution?; On the Narrative: Proponents and Objectors; The Famous Quotes; The Unity of Opposites and Self-Movement; Dialectics in Practice after 1914; From Lenin to Althusser's Theoretical Revolution; PART II -- EVENTS AND HISTORICAL JUDGEMENT AFTER ALTHUSSER; Chapter 4 -- Althusser's Science: Naming the Epistemological Break; A Marxian Epistemology of the New; Theorising Marx's Epistemological Break; Structural Causality; Whose Science? |
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A Materialism for Marxism, or, the Theoretical Void of Late AlthusserChapter 5 -- Badiou's Decision: To Give Up Leadership, Somewhat; Fleeing from and Returning to Althusser; The Subject of Mathematics and the Mathematical Subject; Being, Event, Intervention; Being; Event; Intervention; Constructible Universes and the Vanishing Evental-Site; The Rationalist as Radical Public Intellectual; Chapter 6 -- Meillassoux's Politics: Speculative Justice; Digging Down to the Politics, Discovering Messianic Roots; Esotericism: The Discreet Charm of the Philosophers |
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After Finitude: In the Spirit of the Fossil?From Meillassoux to ...?; PART III -- SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WHERE THIS ROAD MIGHT TAKE US; Chapter 7 -- Afterword: Towards a Complex Science of History; Complex Systems and Social Change; General and Restricted Complexity; Strong and Weak Emergence; The Politics of Simulation; The End of the Beginning; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Explores the politics of modern and contemporary historical sciences, from Marxism to contemporary French theory. Are sciences of history relics of an abandoned modernism? Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, Coombs explores the technical details of both traditions' historical sciences. He argues that their articulations of history and event affect how we approach political transformation and view the role of theoreticians in political practice. History and Event sits at a productive juncture of critical theory, continental thought and social scientific philosophy. It is a vital resource for researchers who wish to sharpen their critical insight into Marxist philosophy and contemporary French theory. Key Features. Establishes continuities and discontinuities between classical Marxism and Althusserian theory New readings of Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Althusser, Badiou, Meillassoux and complexity theory Explores the implications of different sciences of history, including how we conceive of political transformation and the role of theorists in political practice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 12, 2016) |
| Subject |
History -- Philosophy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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History -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748699001 |
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0748699007 |
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9781474404969 |
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1474404960 |
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074869899X |
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9780748698998 |
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