Marx's Experiments and Microscopes - Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions

A fresh account of Marx 's unique synthesis between dialectical and conventionally scientific inquiry.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 Marx 's Method of Successive Abstractions

2 Marx 's Method and Modes of Production

3 Slavery, Capitalist Development, and the Method of Successive Abstractions

4 Successive Abstractions and Religion ( I ): A Conventional Approach

5 Successive Abstractions and Religion ( II ): A Historical Materialist Approach

6 An Essay on Religion

7 Reflections and a Critical Evaluation

Appendix to Chapter 6

References

Index

About the author

Paul B. Paolucci, Ph.D. (2001, University of Kentucky) is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University. His books on Karl Marx include Marx 's Scientific Dialectics (Brill, 2007), Marx and the Politics of Abstraction (Brill, 2011), and Acquiring Modernity (Brill, 2019).

Summary

A fresh account of Marx 's unique synthesis between dialectical and conventionally scientific inquiry.

Product details

• Authors: Paul B. Paolucci, Paolucci Paul B.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2020
• EAN: 9781642593686
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-368-6
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; Studies in Critical Social Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Western philosophy from c 1800, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Marxism & Communism, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Social groups: religious groups and communities