Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory

Fashionable new theories tend to reject universal reason in favour of pluralism and locality. Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory examines some of these theories and argues that they are the mystified expression of the current political and economic impasse. Today's relativistic outlook reveals a minimalist and atomized viewpoint - a retreat from the goal of rational understanding. Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory sets out, in this critique, the case for developing a new humanism to extend rationality.

List of contents

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; S.Wolton - The Three Sources and Component Parts of Marxism; G.A.Cohen - Marxism and Social Construction; J.Heartfield - Uncertain Judgement: A Critique of the 'Culture of Crime'; A.Calcutt - Racial Identities: the Degradation of Human Constructions; S.Wolton - Marxism and Feminist Theory; E.Lee - The Return of the Sacred; L.Revell - Determined to be Different: Social Constructionism and Homosexuality; P.Ray - Political Internet? What a Wondrous Web we weave; K.Teare - Index

Product details

• Authors: Suke Wolton
• Assisted by: Suke Wolton (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1996
• EAN: 9780333659014
• ISBN: 978-0-333-65901-4
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 11 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 257 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 189 p.
• Series: The World of the Roosevelts; St Antony's Series; St Antony's
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas