Making history : agency, structure, and change in social theory / by Alex Callinicos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callinicos, Alex.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 3.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agent (Philosophy).

Act (Philosophy).

Structuralism.

Historical materialism.

Revolutions--Philosophy.

Revolutions.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

2nd rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Making History is about the question - central to social theory - of how human agents draw their powers from the social structures they are involved in. Drawing on classical Marxism, analytical philosophy, and a wide range of historical writing, Alex Callinicos seeks to avoid two unacceptable extremes - dissolving the subject into an impersonal flux, as poststructuralists tend to - and treating social structures as the mere effects of individual action (for example, rational-choice theory). Among those discussed are Althusser, Anderson, Benjamin, Brenner, Cohen, Elster, Foucault, Giddens, Habermas, and Mann. Callinicos has written an extended introduction to this new edition that reviews developments since Making History was first published in 1987. This republication gives a new generation of readers access to an important intervention in Marxism and social theory.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Subjects and Agents

Structure and Action

Reasons and Interests

Ideology and Power

Tradition and Revolution

Conclusion

Index

Historicalmaterialism Book Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91480-7

9786610914807

90-474-0476-9

1-4294-0720-4

OCLC:

191930947

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047404767 DOI