The Dematerialisation of Karl Marx: Literature and Marxist Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138441408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Leonard Jackson

Opis

Divided into three main parts (the politics of literary criticism, the foundations of Marxist theory, and Marxist theory and literature), this work covers topics such as class consciousness and ideology, literary criticism as political reaction, and the mental basis of reality.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction. A Defence of Materialism Part One: The Politics of Literary Criticism 1. Literary Criticism as a political reaction. Scholarship, Criticism and theory in the 20th century Part Two: The Foundations of Marxist Theory 2. The mental basis of reality. Idealism and the human subject 3. A complete boureois ideology. The Philosophy of Hegel 4. Hegelian Marxism. Alienation , the dialectic and socialist science 5. Scientific Marxism. Marxist theories of history, society, revolution and value Part Three: Marxist Theory and Literature 6. Economistic Marxism and critical interpretation. The case of landscape and Cauldwell's History of Poetry 7. Class consciousness and ideology 8. Structural Marxism and power Fantasy. Althusser and Foucault 9. The Rejection of literature. From Raymond Williams to the English Althusserians 10. Two forms of cultural materialism. Materialism in anthropology and in cultural studies Index

O autorze

Leonard Jackson