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Author Callinicos, Alex

Title Making History : Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory
Published Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Subjects and Agents -- 1.1 Three concepts of agency -- 1.2 The orthodox conception of agents -- 1.3 Human nature: the need for a philosophical anthropology -- 1.4 Human nature: morality, justice and virtue -- 1.5 Practical reason and social structures -- Chapter 2: Structure and Action -- 2.1 The concept of social structure -- 2.2 The basic concepts of historical materialism -- 2.3 Orthodox historical materialism -- 2.4 Rational-choice marxism
2.5 Structural capacities and human action2.6 What's left of historical materialism? -- Chapter 3: Reasons and Interests -- 3.1 Expressivism and the hermeneutic tradition -- 3.2 Interpretation and social theory -- 3.3 Charity, truth and community -- 3.4 The utilitarian theory of action -- 3.5 Interests and powers -- Chapter 4: Ideology and Power -- 4.1 Collective agents -- 4.2 Falsehood and ideology, I -- 4.3 Falsehood and ideology, II -- 4.4 Nation, state and military power -- 4.5 A note on base and superstructure -- Chapter 5: Tradition and Revolution
5.1 Revolution as redemption: Benjamin and Sartre5.2. Marxism and the proletariat -- 5.3 The rationality of revolution -- 5.4 Revolution and repetition -- 5.5 The tradition of the oppressed -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Summary Making History is about the question - central to social theory - of how human agents draw their powers from the social structures they are involved in. Drawing on classical Marxism, analytical philosophy, and a wide range of historical writing, Alex Callinicos seeks to avoid two unacceptable extremes - dissolving the subject into an impersonal flux, as poststructuralists tend to - and treating social structures as the mere effects of individual action (for example, rational-choice theory). Among those discussed are Althusser, Anderson, Benjamin, Brenner, Cohen, Elster, Foucault, Giddens, Habermas, and Mann. Callinicos has written an extended introduction to this new edition that reviews developments since Making History was first published in 1987. This republication gives a new generation of readers access to an important intervention in Marxism and social theory
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Subject Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
SUBJECT Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 fast
Subject Agent (Philosophy)
Act (Philosophy)
Structuralism.
Historical materialism.
Revolutions -- Philosophy.
structures (single built works)
structuralism.
structures (structural elements)
Act (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
Historical materialism
Revolutions -- Philosophy
Structuralism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004136274
9004136274