Philosophy, Ideology, and Social Science: Essays in Negation and Affirmation

BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION dust jacket hardcover, free tracking number, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201607585as Written by a major contemporary philosopher and providing a comprehensive critical evaluation of ideology. Professor Meszaros presents some of the most significant analyses of Adam Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Weber, Lukacs, Keynes, Heidegger and Sartre. Written over a period of more than two decades, the greater part of this volume is made accessible to a wider English readership here for the first time. The book is concerned with the specific role which ideology plays in the process of social structural adjustments. Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)

Politics & Social Sciences

Mészáros, István

Social Sciences

St.Martin's Press

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Slight shelf wear. Small tear to dust cover. Tiny nick to bottom edge. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

The Power of Ideology

Philosophy

New York University Press

<p>Istvan Meszaros is a pre-eminent figure in political philosophy. He provides here a lucid and polemical examination of the power of contemporary ideology. He undertakes a systematic analysis of ideology on a scale not attempted since Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness. The book is the result of many years of research and surveys and integrates a vast amount of material from the fields of Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory and Political Economy. Firmly based on the classical literature (reaching back to the eighteenth century), the discussions are brought fully up-to-date with the assessment of contemporary preoccupations of the subject. Part One shows the connection between the postwar decades of undisturbed economic expansion and the ideology of 'post-ideology', criticising the premature theorisation of the 'end of scarcity' and the fallacy of envisaging purely technological solutions to deep-seated social problems. The principal twentieth-century theories of ideology-from Max Weber to the Frankfurt School, from Raymond Aron to Merleau-Ponty and to the theories of 'post-modernity' are discussed in detail in conjunction with the unfolding sociohistorical developments. Part Two explores the complex relationship between science, ideology and methodology, with particular reference to the practical determinations of each. After a critical assessment of the claims to 'methodological neutrality', attention is focused on the conditions of production and reproduction of representative theoretical systems, considering them both as substantive conceptions and as competing methods. Part Three takes a closer look at the important connection between ideology and emancipation, reasserting the validity of a critical and self-critical socialist theory as the necessary strategic framework of emancipation. It undertakes a critical assessment of the socialist movement as a global enterprise, from its origins through to the recent social democratisation of some Western Communist parties and to the emergence of 'perestroika' in the East, situating ideology within its proper historical context and underlining its vital transformative functions. Book jacket.</p>

NYU Press

Marx's theory of alienation

Merlin Press

<p>70p bright red paperback, very well preserved copy, 2nd impression</p>

Necessity of Social Control

Merlin Pr

As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, the demise of Soviet-style post-revolutionary societies, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. His dialectical inquiry into social structure and forms of consciousness—a systematic critique of the prevailing forms of thought—is unequaled in our time.” Mészáros is the author of magisterial works like Beyond Capital and Social Structures of Forms of Consciousness, but his work can seem daunting to those unacquainted with his thought. Here, for the first time, is a concise and accessible overview of Mészáros’s ideas, designed by the author himself and covering the broad scope of his work, from the shortcomings of bourgeois economics to the degeneration of the capital system to the transition to socialism.

The necessity of social control (Isaac Deutscher memorial lecture)

Lukács' concept of dialectic

Literature & Fiction

The Merlin Press Ltd.

Marx's Theory of Alienation

Politics & Government

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