A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism

ISBN-13: 9780333625545 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 314 str.

Anthony Giddens

Opis

What, if anything, is valid in Marx's work today, following the events of 1989 and after in Eastern Europe? The second edition of this highly regarded critical encounter with historical materialism and other major perspectives in social thought, shows how a critical theory of the advanced societies can still draw on marxism - if only sparingly - and remains an endeavour of fundamental importance in the social sciences at the present time.

Spis treści

Preface to the Second Edition.- Introduction.- The Time-Space.- Constitution of Social Systems.- Domination, Power and Exploitation: An Analysis Society as Time-Traveller: Capitalism and World History.- Time Space Distanciation and the Generation of Power Property and Class Society.- Time, Labour and the City Capitalism: Integration, Surveillance and Class Power.- The Nation-State, Nationalism and Capitalist.- Development The State: Class Conflict and Political Order Between Capitalism and Socialism: Contradiction and Exploitation.- Notes and References.- Index.

O autorze

ANTHONY GIDDENS is Professor of Sociology at King's College, Cambridge. He is the author of numerous bookson social theory