Marx and the Politics of Abstraction
Description
Many scholars see science and politics as mutually exclusive, where the latter's influence contaminates the former's purity. Karl Marx's detractors often criticize him on these grounds. Paolucci shows that through his method of critique, Marx incorporates the relations of knowledge and power into abstractions and traces their historical movement. This corrective more readily lays bare capitalist society’s exploitative nature.
Author Bios
Paul B. Paolucci, Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology, University of Kentucky, is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University. He has published several works on Marxist theory, method, and political economics.
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Publication date: September 18, 2012
Table of Contents
Author’s Foreword
1. Science and Politics
2. Critique and Method
3. Inquiry and Abstraction
4. Relational Sociology and Dialectic
5. Teleology and Dialectic
6. Marx’s Political Science
Afterword
References
Index
