(P/B) SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND FORMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (VOLUME II)
THE DIALECTIC OF STRUCTURE AND HISTORY
MESZAROS ISTVANΚωδ. Πολιτείας: 2632-0008
Παρουσίαση
In The Dialectic of Structure and History, Volume Two of Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Istvan Meszaros brings the comprehension of our condition and the possibility of emancipatory social action beyond the highest point reached to date. Building on the indicatory flashes of conceptual lightning in the Grundrisse and other works of Karl Marx, Meszaros sets out the relations of structure and agency, individual and society, base and superstructure, nature and history, in a dialectical totality open to the future.The project is brought to its conclusion by means of critique, an analysis that shows not only the inadequacies of the thought critiqued but at the same time their social historical cause. The crucial questions are addressed through critique of the highest point of honest and brilliant thought in capitals ascending phase, that of Adam Smith, Kant, and Hegel, as well as the irrationalities and dishonesty of the apologists of the capital systems descending phase, such as Hayek and Popper. The dead ends of both Levi-Strauss's structuralism and post-modernism, arising from their denial of history, are placed in their context as capital-apologetics.
What Meszaros, the leading Marxist philosopher of our times, has achieved is of world historical importance. He has cleared the philosophical ground to permit the illumination of a path to transcend the destructive death spiral of the capital system. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
INTRODUCTION1. THE NATURE OF HISTORICAL DETERMINATION
Material Imperatives and the "Active Side"
Philosophical Foundations of Historical Materialism
The Poverty of "Anti-Historicism"
Concepts and Metaphors: A Problem of Method
Technological Determinism and Dialectics
The Dialectic of Structure and History
2. DIALECTICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: TELEOLOGY, HISTORY, AND SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Social Interaction and Uneven Development
Problematical Character of Labor's Spontaneous Teleology
Interdependence and Global Control
The Structural Constraints of Social Consciousness
3. KEY CONCEPTS IN THE DIALECTIC OF BASE AND SUPERSTRUCTURE
Hasty Rejection of the Marxian Conceptual Framework
Reproduction of the Operating Conditions of Productio
Customs, Tradition and Explicit Law: Historical Boundaries of the Legal and Political Superstructure
4. MATERIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND IDEOLOGICAL FORMS
Historical Conditions and Limits of "Free Spiritual Production"
Key Aspects of Mediation in the Dialectic of Base and Superstructure
Ideology and "False Consciousness"
Radical Transformation of the Legal and Political Superstructure
5. KANT, HEGEL, MARX-, HISTORICAL NECESSITY AND THE STANDPOINT OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Preliminaries
Theology, Teleology, and Philosophy of History
The Kantian Conception of Historical Development
The Radical Openness of History
Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of History
Naturalistic and Dialectical Conceptions of Necessity
Need and Necessity in the Historical Dialectic
The Conflation of Natural and Historical Necessity
The Disappearing Necessity of Historical Necessity
6. STRUCTURE AND HISTORY: THE DIALECTICAL INTELLIGIBILITY OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
Preliminaries
The Dynamics of Need, Necessity, and Epochally Sustained Structural Change
Material and Formal Structures of History: Critique of Sartre's Conception of Dialectical Reason and Historical Totalization
Structural Imperatives and Historical Temporality: Critique of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
The Law of Uneven Development and the Role of Scarcity in Historical Conceptions
The Dialectical Nature of Historical
Change and Advancement
INDEX
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