Non-Marxian historical materialism : : reconstructions and comparisons / / edited by Krzysztof Brzechczyn.

• Superior document: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 120
• TeilnehmendeR: Brzechczyn, Krzysztof, 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 120.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)

The authors of this book reconstruct the philosophical, methodological and theoretical assumptions of non-Marxian historical materialism, a theory of historical process authored by Leszek Nowak (1943-2009), a co-founder of the Poznań School of Methodology. In the first part of the book, philosophical assumptions of this theory are compared with the concepts of Robert Nozick, Immanuel Wallerstein, André Gunder Frank and analytical Marxism. In the second part, non-Marxian historical materialism is compared with the concepts of Eva Etzioni-Halevy, Andrzej Falkiewicz, Robert Michels, Vilfredo Pareto, Theda Skocpol and Karl August Wittfogel.

Table of Contents

On Non-Marxian Historical Materialism. Preface / Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- part 1 -- On Methodology of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism -- 1 Reflections on the Historiosophical System of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism / Jerzy Topolski -- 2 Leszek Nowak's Historiosophy from Historical and Systematical Perspectives / Waldemar Czajkowski -- 3 Modeling the Dynamics of the Social Process in the Philosophy of Liberalism: Leszek Nowak's Critique of Liberal Historiosophy / Piotr Przybysz -- 4 An Analysis of the Methodology of Leszek Nowak's Non-Marxian Historical Materialism / Krzysztof Kiedrowski -- 5 The Paraphrase Method in Leszek Nowak's Interhuman Model of Man / Aleksandra Gomu ł czak -- part 2 -- Non-Marxian Historical Materialism: Paraphrases and Comparisons -- 6 The Class Structure of Hydraulic Societies: An Attempt at a Paraphrase of Karl August Witttfogel's Theory in the Conceptual Framework of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism / Tomasz Zar ę bski -- 7 The Image of a Social Structure in Manusm ṛ ti: An Attempt at a Theoretical Analysis / Marta Br ę giel-Pant -- 8 A Victorious Revolution and a Lost Modernization: An Attempt to Paraphrase Theda Skocpol's Theory of Social Revolution in the Conceptual Apparatus of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism / Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- 9 The Elitarian versus Class Theory of Democracy: An Attempt to Paraphrase the Mechanism of the Absorption of the Elites from Eva Etzioni-Halevy's Theory in the Conceptual Apparatus of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism / Karolina Rutkowska -- 10 Leszek Nowak's non-Marxian Historical Materialism and Pareto's Elite Theory: Similarities and Differences / Giacomo Borbone -- 11 The Iron Law of Oligarchy versus the Rule of Political Competition: An Attempt at a Comparison between Robert Michels' and Leszek Nowak's Approaches to Power / Regina Menke -- 12 The Social Role of the Ceremonial: Andrzej Falkiewicz's Conception of Culture and the Theory of the Spiritual Momentum in Non-Marxian Historical Materialism / Iwo Greczko -- Name index -- Subject index.