Marx and the politics of abstraction [electronic resource] / by Paul Paolucci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paolucci, Paul.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 31.

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Political aspects.

Science.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many scholars see science and politics as mutually exclusive realms, where the latter's influence contaminates former's purity. Karl Marx's critics often interpret him within this framework, where his value-laden judgments render his analysis of capitalism moot. Though defenders argue that Marx rejects an objective-subjective dichotomy, this book offers a different interpretation. Through the method of critique Marx examines problems and biases in putatively neutral forms of scientific knowledge, specifically models that fail to capture the relations of power and knowledge dominant in capitalist society. By incorporating these relations into his abstractions and tracing their historical movement, Marx's corrective to malformed approaches to scientific knowledge more readily lays bare capitalist society’s exploitative and distortive nature. This book demonstrates these principles and applies them to conventional sociological methods, theories of religion, and class analysis.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / P. Paolucci

Chapter One. Science And Politics / P. Paolucci

Chapter Two. Critique And Method / P. Paolucci

Chapter Three. Inquiry And Abstraction / P. Paolucci

Chapter Four. Relational Sociology And Dialectic / P. Paolucci

Chapter Five. Teleology And Dialectic / P. Paolucci

Chapter Six. Marx’s Political Science / P. Paolucci

Afterword / P. Paolucci

References / P. Paolucci

Index / P. Paolucci.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-12085-2

9786613120854

90-04-20138-6

OCLC:

727952327

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004201378.i-239 DOI