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Author Cohen, G. A. (Gerald Allan), 1941-2009.

Title Karl Marx's theory of history : a defence / by G. A. Cohen
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [1978]
©1978

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Description xv, 369 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Karl Marx's theory of history : a defence / by G. A. Cohen. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- NOTE ON REFERENCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvi -- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2000 EDITION: REFLECTIONS ON ANALYTICAL MARXISM xvii -- I. Images Of History In Hegel And Marx 1 -- Ii. The Constitution Of The Productive Forces 28 -- (1) Economic Structure and Productive Forces 28 -- (2) Some Terminological Points 37 -- (3) Labour Power 40 -- (4) Science 45 -- (5) More Candidates for the Catalogue 47 -- (6) The Development of the Productive Forces 55 -- Iii. The Economic Structure 63 -- (1) Ownership Rights in Productive Forces 63 -- (2) Possible and Impossible Ownership Positions of Producers 66 -- (3) Subordination 69 -- (4) Redefining the Proletarian 70 -- (5) The Structural Definition of Class 73 -- (6) The Individuation of Social Forms 77 -- (7) Modes of Production 79 -- (8) Varieties of Economic Change 85 -- Iv. Material And Social Properties Of Society 88 -- (1) Introducing the Distinction 88 -- (2) Matter and Form in the Labour Process 98 -- (3) Use-value and Political Economy 103 -- (4) Revolutionary Value of the Distinction toy -- (5) Against Marx on Mill 108 -- (6) Work Relations III -- V. Fetishism 115 -- (i) Fetishism in Religion and in Economics 115 -- (2) What is True and What is False in Fetishism 116 -- (3) Diagnosis of Commodity Fetishism 119 -- (4) Diagnosis of Capital Fetishism 122 -- (5) Commodity Fetishism and Money 124 -- (6) Commodity Fetishism, Religion, and Politics 125 -- (7) Communism as the Liberation of the Content 129 -- Vi. The Primacy Of The Productive Forces 134 -- (1) Introduction 134 -- (2) Assertions of Primacy by Marx: The Preface 136 -- (3) Assertions of Primacy by Marx: Outside the Preface 142 -- (4) The Case for Primacy 150 -- (5) The Nature of the Primacy of the Forces 16o -- (6) Productive Forces, Material Relations, Social Relations 166 -- (7) 'All earlier modes of production were essentially conservative' 169 -- (8) Addmdwn 172 -- Vii. The Productive Forces And Capitalism 175 -- (1) The Emergence of Capitalism 175 -- (2) The Capitalist Economic Structure and the Capitalist Mode of Production 180 -- (3) Capitalism and the Development of the Productive Forces 193 -- (4) Four Epochs 197 -- (5) Capitalism's Mission, and its Fate 201 -- (6) The Presuppositions of Socialism 204 -- (7) Why are Classes Necessary? 207 -- Viii. Base And Superstructure, Powers And Rights 216 -- (1) Identifying the Superstructure 216 -- (2) The Problem of Legality 217 -- (3) Explanation of Property Relations and Law by Production Relations 225 -- (4) Bases Need Superstructures 231 -- (5) Is the Economic Structure Independently Observable? 234 -- (6) More on Rights and Powers 236 -- (7) Rights and Powers of the Proletariat 240 -- (8) Addenda 245 -- Ix. Functional Explanation: In General 249 -- (1) Introduction 249 -- (2) Explanation 251 . -- (3) Function-statements and Functional Explanations 253 -- (4) The Structure of Functional Explanation 258 -- (5) Confirmation 265 -- (6) Are any Functional Explanations True? 266 -- (7) Consequence Explanation and the Deductive-nomological Model 272 -- X. Functional Explanation: In Marxism 278 -- (1) Introduction 278 -- (2) Conceptual Criticisms of Functional Explanation 280 -- (3) Functionalism, Functional Explanation, and Marxism 283 -- (4) Elaborations 285 -- (5) Marxian Illustrations 289 -- Xi. Use-Value, Exchange-Value, And Contemporary Capitalism 297 -- (1) Introduction 297 -- (2) The Subjugation of Use-value by Exchange-value 298 -- (3) A Distinctive Contradiction of Advanced Capitalism 302 -- (4) Mishan and Galbraith 307 -- (5) The Argument Reviewed 309 -- (6) Is Capitalism a Necessary Condition of the Distinctive Contradiction? 313 -- (7) An Objection 317 -- (8) The Bias of Capitalism and Max Weber 320 -- (9) Obiter Dicta 322 -- Xii. Fettering 326 -- Xiii. Reconsidering Historical Materialism 341 -- Xiv. Restricted And Inclusive Historical Materialism 364 -- Xv. Marxism After The Collapse Of The Soviet Union 389 -- APPENDIX I. Karl Marx and the Withering Away of Social Science 396 -- APPENDIX II. Some Definitions 415 -- List Of Works Cited 425 -- Name Index 433 -- Subject Index 437 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Historical materialism, Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
Notes Bibliography: p. 354-361
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [354]-361
Subject Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
SUBJECT Historical materialism book series. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002096283
Subject Historical materialism.
History -- Philosophy.
LC no. 78051206
ISBN 0691071756