Historical Materialism and Social Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780333995624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 244 str.

Opis

Historical Materialism and Social Evolution brings together a collection of essays which investigate the relationship between Marxist thought and Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Each of the contributors emphasize the idea that the distinctive character of progressive social thought is derived from creative ideas drawn from the study of natural evolutionary processes.

Spis treści

Notes on the Contributors Historical Materialism and Social Evolution; P.Blackledge & G.Kirkpatrick Historical Materialism: From Social Evolution to Revolutionary Politics; P.Blackledge Social Darwinism and Socialist Darwinism in Germany: 1860 to 1900; T.Benton A Darwinian Historical Materialism; P.Nolan Analytical Marxism and the Debate on Social Evolution; A.Carling History, Exploitations and Oppression; A.Callinicos Progress and Technology in Habermas's Theory of Social Evolution; G.Kirkpatrick Beyond Habermas Towards Marcuse: A Critical Framework for Technological Progress; G.Tassone Lean Production and Economic Evolution in Capitalism; T.Smith

O autorze

TED BENTON Lecturer in Sociology, University of Essex ALEX CALLINICOS Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York ALAN CARLING Lecturer, Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies, University of Bradford PAUL NOLAN PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London TONY SMITH Lecturer in Philosophy, Iowa State University GUISSEPPE TASSONE Lecturer, University of York