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Title

Dialectical investigations / by Bertell Ollman.

Author

Ollman, Bertell.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1993.

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Details

Description

ix, 191 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Dialectic
• Dialectical materialism
• Philosophy, Marxist
• dialectic
• dialectical materialism
• Dialectic
• Dialectical materialism
• Philosophy, Marxist
• Dialektik
• Dialektischer Materialismus
• Marxismus
• Methode
• Politische Theorie
• Filosofia politica
• Marxismo
• Communism

Bibliography (note)

• "Select bibliography on Marx's dialectical method": p. 180-183.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. Introduction to Dialectics. 1. The Meaning of Dialectics -- pt. II. Advanced Dialectics. 2. Putting Dialectics to Work: The Process of Abstraction in Marx's Method. I. The Problem: How to Think Adequately about Change and Interaction. II. The Solution Lies in the Process of Abstraction. III. How Marx's Abstractions Differ. IV. The Philosophy of Internal Relations. V. Three Modes of Abstraction: Extension. VI. Level of Generality, and. VII. Vantage Point. VIII. The Role of Abstractions in the Debates over Marxism -- pt. III. Dialectical Investigations. 3. Theses on the Capitalist State. 4. Why Do We Need a Theory of the State? 5. Toward a Marxist Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. 6. The Regency of the Proletariat in Crisis: A Job for Perestroika. 7. The Ideal of Academic Freedom as the Ideology of Academic Repression, American Style. 8. Studying History Backward: A Neglected Feature of the Materialist Conception of History. 9. How to Study Class Consciousness ... and Why We Should.

ISBN

• 0415906792
• 9780415906791
• 0415906806
• 9780415906807

LCCN

92024355

OCLC

• ocm26218027
• 26218027
• SCSB-1970094

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library