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

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, philosophica...

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Superior document:Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 120
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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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)
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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.