In this book Callinicos explores the relationship between social theory and historical writing drawing on a wide range of theories and theorists in an attempt to establish the contribution that theory can make to understanding the past.
In this book Callinicos explores the relationship between social theory and historical writing drawing on a wide range of theories and theorists in an...
It has become an intellectual commonplace to claim that mankind has entered the era of post-modernity. Three themes are embraced in this claim - the poststructuralists critique by Foucault, Derrida and others of the philosophical heritage of the Enlightenment, the supposed impasse of the high modern art and its replacement by new artistic forms, and the alleged emergence of post-industrial societies whose structures are beyond the ken of Marx and other theorists of industrial capitalism.
It has become an intellectual commonplace to claim that mankind has entered the era of post-modernity. Three themes are embraced in this claim - the p...
The anti-globalization protests at Seattle and Genoa and the marches against the war in Iraq have put contestation of capitalism and imperialism on the political agenda. But how does social critique situate itself philosophically, after the marginalization
The anti-globalization protests at Seattle and Genoa and the marches against the war in Iraq have put contestation of capitalism and imperialism on th...
Callinicos's new book is a frontal assault on the widely accepted idea that the East European revolutions of 1989 mark the death of socialism.
In an attempt to vindicate the classical Marxist tradition, Callinicos argues that socialism in this tradition can only come from below, through the self-activity of the working class. Stalinism from this standpoint was a 'counter-revolution', erecting at the end of the 1920s a state capitalist regime on the ruins of the radically democratic socialism briefly achieved in October 1917. He further argues that the collapse of Stalinism at...
Callinicos's new book is a frontal assault on the widely accepted idea that the East European revolutions of 1989 mark the death of socialism. ...
In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of imperialism. But is this belief true, and what does 'imperialism' mean? Callinicos explores these questions in this wide-ranging book. In the first part, he critically assesses the classical theories of imperialism developed in the era of the First World War by Marxists such as Lenin, Luxemburg, and Bukharin and by the...
In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The gl...
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 extremes: dissolving the subject into an impersonal flux, as poststructuralists tend to; and treating social structures as the mere effects of individual action (for example, rational-choice theory). Among those discussed are Althusser, Anderson, Benjamin, Brenner, Cohen, Elster, Foucault, Giddens,...
Making History is about the question - central to social theory - of how human agents draw their powers from the social structures they are involve...
Considers the problem of historical change and how we relate institutions and institutional change to actions, and how we think of history as the outcome of this process. The book takes a look at Marxist and non-Marxist positions in this debate.
Considers the problem of historical change and how we relate institutions and institutional change to actions, and how we think of history as the outc...
Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to halt the expansion of NATO to its very borders. Secondly, on 15 September 2008 the Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. This precipitated a severe financial crash and helped to push the world economy into the worst slump since the 1930s.
Both crises marked a severe setback for the global power of the United States, which had...
Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined...
Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to halt the expansion of NATO to its very borders. Secondly, on 15 September 2008 the Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. This precipitated a severe financial crash and helped to push the world economy into the worst slump since the 1930s.
Both crises marked a severe setback for the global power of the United States, which had...
Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined...
