ISBN-13: 9780415572804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 198 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415572804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 198 str.
Assesses the limits of the Marxist theory of history in its various versions. This title begins with an extended critical discussion of Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson, and also includes chapters on G A Cohen's attempt to re-state the Marxist theory of history in terms compatible with analytic philosophy.
In this reissued collection of essays, first published in 1985, Paul Q. Hirst assesses the limits of the Marxist theory of history in its various versions. It begins with an extended critical discussion of Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson, and includes chapters on G.A Cohenâs attempt to re-state the Marxist theory of history in terms compatible with analytic philosophy, on R.G. Collingwoodâs theory of history, on Andersonâs work on Absolutism, on Thompsonâs Poverty of Theory, and on the contemporary politics of democratic socialism.