Marx and the Politics of Abstraction
September 2012
Trade Paperback · 239 Pages
$28.00 U.S. · $30.99 CAN · €19.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781608462094
Haymarket Books
Trade Paperback · 239 Pages
$28.00 U.S. · $30.99 CAN · €19.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781608462094
Haymarket Books
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Description
Many scholars see science and politics as mutually exclusive, where the latter's influence contaminates the former's purity. Karl Marx's detractors often criticize him on these grounds. Paolucci shows that through his method of critique, Marx incorporates the relations of knowledge and power into abstractions and traces their historical movement. This corrective more readily lays bare capitalist society's exploitative nature.
About the Author
Paul B. Paolucci, Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology, University of Kentucky, is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University. He has published several works on Marxist theory, method, and political economics, including Marx's Scientific Dialectics (Haymarket, 2009)