1st Edition

Emergentist Marxism Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

By Sean Creaven Copyright 2007
412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge

In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness, forces and relations of production, base and superstructure, class structure and class conflict, and... Read more

Introduction  1. Critical Realism and Dialectic  2. Materialist Dialectics  3. Socio-Historical Materialism  4. Stratification and Power  5. Marx and Weber and the Dialectics of History.  Conclusion

Biography

Sean Creaven