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Author Cohen, G. A. (Gerald Allan), 1941-2009.

Title Karl Marx's theory of history : a defence / by G.A. Cohen.

Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980.

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 Axe Special Collections Reitz  335.4 M369Dco 1980    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xv, 369 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Princeton paperbacks
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-361) and index.
Contents IMAGES OF HISTORY IN HEGEL AND MARX 1II. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES (1) Economic Structure and Productive Forces (2) Some Terminological Points (3) Labour Power (4) Science (5) More Candidates for the Catalogue (6) The Development of the Productive Forces III. THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE (1) Ownership Rights in Productive Forces (2) Possible and Impossible Ownership Positions of Producers (3) Subordination (4) Redefining the Proletarian (5) The Structural Definition of Class (6) The Individuation of Social Forms (7) Modes of Production (8) Varieties of Economic Change IV. MATERIAL AND SOCIAL PROPERTIES OF SOCIETY (1) Introducing the Distinction (2) Matter and Form in the Labour Process (3) Use-value and Political Economy (4) Revolutionary Value of the Distinction toy(5) Against Marx on Mill (6) Work Relations IIIV. FETISHISM (i) Fetishism in Religion and in Economics (2) What is True and What is False in Fetishism (3) Diagnosis of Commodity Fetishism (4) Diagnosis of Capital Fetishism (5) Commodity Fetishism and Money (6) Commodity Fetishism, Religion, and Politics (7) Communism as the Liberation of the Content VI. THE PRIMACY OF THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES (1) Introduction (2) Assertions of Primacy by Marx: The Preface (3) Assertions of Primacy by Marx: Outside the Preface (4) The Case for Primacy (5) The Nature of the Primacy of the Forces (6) Productive Forces, Material Relations, Social Relations (7) 'All earlier modes of production were essentially conservative' (8) Addmdwn VII. THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES AND CAPITALISM (1) The Emergence of Capitalism (2) The Capitalist Economic Structure and the Capitalist Mode of Production (3) Capitalism and the Development of the Productive Forces (4) Four Epochs (5) Capitalism's Mission, and its Fate (6) The Presuppositions of Socialism (7) Why are Classes Necessary? VIII. BASE AND SUPERSTRUCTURE, POWERS AND RIGHTS (1) Identifying the Superstructure (2) The Problem of Legality (3) Explanation of Property Relations and Law by Production Relations (4) Bases Need Superstructures (5) Is the Economic Structure Independently Observable? (6) More on Rights and Powers (7) Rights and Powers of the Proletariat (8) Addenda IX. FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION: IN GENERAL (1) Introduction (2) Explanation (3) Function-statements and Functional Explanations (4) The Structure of Functional Explanation (5) Confirmation (6) Are any Functional Explanations True? (7) Consequence Explanation and the Deductive-nomological Model X. FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION: IN MARXISM (1) Introduction (2) Conceptual Criticisms of Functional Explanation (3) Functionalism, Functional Explanation, and Marxism (4) Elaborations (5) Marxian Illustrations XI. USE-VALUE, EXCHANGE-VALUE, AND CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM (1) Introduction (2) The Subjugation of Use-value by Exchange-value (3) A Distinctive Contradiction of Advanced Capitalism (4) Mishan and Galbraith (5) The Argument Reviewed (6) Is Capitalism a Necessary Condition of the Distinctive Contradiction? (7) An Objection (8) The Bias of Capitalism and Max Weber (9) Obiter Dicta. APPENDIX I. Karl Marx and the Withering Away of Social Science -- APPENDIX II. Some Definitions
Subject Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Historical materialism.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 (OCoLC)fst00030215
Historical materialism. (OCoLC)fst00958141
Added Title Theory of history
ISBN 0691020086
9780691020082

 
    
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