Marx and the Politics of Abstraction - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 31

Paolucci convincingly argues that by mixing political and scientific analysis, Marx yields a method closest to that of scientific inquiry.

List of contents

Author’s Foreword

1. Science and Politics
2. Critique and Method
3. Inquiry and Abstraction
4. Relational Sociology and Dialectic
5. Teleology and Dialectic
6. Marx’s Political Science
Afterword

References
Index

About the author

Paul B. Paolucci, Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology, University of Kentucky, is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University. He has published several works on Marxist theory, method, and political economics, including Marx's Scientific Dialectics (Haymarket, 2009)

Summary

Many scholars see science and politics as mutually exclusive, where the latter's influence contaminates the former's purity. Karl Marx's detractors often criticize him on these grounds. Paolucci shows that through his method of critique, Marx incorporates the relations of knowledge and power into abstractions and traces their historical movement. This corrective more readily lays bare capitalist society’s exploitative nature.

Foreword

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Product details

• Authors: Paul Paolucci
• Assisted by: Paul Paolucci (Editor), Paul B. Paolucci (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2012
• EAN: 9781608462094
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-209-4
• Weight: 355 g
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; Studies in Critical Social Sci; Studies in Critical Social Sci; Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Science: general issues, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, Scientific research, Research methods: general