Karl Marx''s Theory of Ideas

Klappentext Marx's ideas about how society presents a misleading appearance to its members have been the subject of many conflicting interpretations. In this book John Torrance takes a fresh, un-Marxist approach to Marx's texts and shows that a more precise, coherent and cogent sociology of ideas can be extracted from them than is generally allowed. The implications of this for twentieth-century capitalism and for recent debates about Marx's conceptions of justice, morality and the history of social science are explored. The author argues that Marx's theory of ideas is sufficiently independent of other parts of his thought to provide a critique and explanation of those defects in his own understanding of capitalism which allowed Marxism itself to become, by his own definition, an ideology. Zusammenfassung John Torrance takes a fresh! un-Marxist approach to Marx's texts and shows that a more precise! coherent and cogent sociology of ideas can be extracted from them than is generally allowed. He explores the implications of this for twentieth-century capitalism and for recent debates about Marx's conceptions of justice! morality and the history of social science. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Marxism versus Marx: what Marx's theory of ideology was not; 2. Marx's theory of knowledge; 3. The basis of false consciousness: theory; 4. The basis of false consciousness: social being; 5. Social consciousness; 6. Ideology; 7. Class struggle, consciousness and ideology; 8. Justice; 9. Morality; 10. The sociology of political economy; 11. Marx's science and Marxist ideology.

Product details

• Authors: Torrance John, John Torrance, John (University of Oxford) Torrance, Torrance John
• Assisted by: G. A. Cohen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.1995
• EAN: 9780521440660
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44066-0
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Studies in Marxism & Social Th; Studies in Marxism and Social Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Economic theory and philosophy