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Making History : Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory.
Making History is about the question - central to social theory - of how human agents draw their powers from the social structures they are involved in. Drawing on classical Marxism, analytical philosophy, and a wide range of historical writing, Alex Callinicos seeks to avoid two unacceptable extrem...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill Academic Publishers,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Subjects and Agents
- 1.1 Three concepts of agency
- 1.2 The orthodox conception of agents
- 1.3 Human nature: the need for a philosophical anthropology
- 1.4 Human nature: morality, justice and virtue
- 1.5 Practical reason and social structures
- Chapter 2: Structure and Action
- 2.1 The concept of social structure
- 2.2 The basic concepts of historical materialism
- 2.3 Orthodox historical materialism
- 2.4 Rational-choice marxism
- 2.5 Structural capacities and human action2.6 What's left of historical materialism?
- Chapter 3: Reasons and Interests
- 3.1 Expressivism and the hermeneutic tradition
- 3.2 Interpretation and social theory
- 3.3 Charity, truth and community
- 3.4 The utilitarian theory of action
- 3.5 Interests and powers
- Chapter 4: Ideology and Power
- 4.1 Collective agents
- 4.2 Falsehood and ideology, I
- 4.3 Falsehood and ideology, II
- 4.4 Nation, state and military power
- 4.5 A note on base and superstructure
- Chapter 5: Tradition and Revolution
- 5.1 Revolution as redemption: Benjamin and Sartre5.2. Marxism and the proletariat
- 5.3 The rationality of revolution
- 5.4 Revolution and repetition
- 5.5 The tradition of the oppressed
- Conclusion
- Index
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