History and Event : : From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory / / Nathan Coombs.
Explores the politics of modern and contemporary historical sciences, from Marxism to contemporary French theoryAre sciences of history relics of an abandoned modernism? Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Taking on the Political : TAPO
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: History and Event in Marxist Dialectics
- Chapter 1 Hegel's Leaps and the Historicist Theory of Knowledge
- Chapter 2 Marx's Idea of Communist Transformation
- Chapter 3 Lenin's Philosophy: A New Dialectics of Revolution?
- Part II: Events and Historical Judgement after Althusser
- Chapter 4 Althusser's Science: Naming the Epistemological Break
- Chapter 5 Badiou's Decision: To Give Up Leadership, Somewhat
- Chapter 6 Meillassoux's Politics: Speculative Justice
- Part III: Suggestions about Where this Road Might Take Us
- Chapter 7 Afterword: Towards a Complex Science of History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index