Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy

by Stephen A. Resnick

Book Overview

Intense debates in recent decades have provoked major new directions in Marxist theory. Earlier reductionist notions of knowledge, dialectics, contradiction, class, and capitalism have been challenged and profoundly transformed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226710211
• ISBN13: 9780226710211
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

New Breakthrough in Dealing Essentialism of All Orders

Whenever We think anything, we are actually captive within the models of thought that we did not make but just learning to live with. These models are diehard ones. The empires break down, the universes bang and bang again, but cool and still remain the models of thought. Databases come and go, make place for new ones, but these models do not. We just cope with the new databases within the confines of the old models. And the area that is affected the most by these diehard thought-models is philosophy. Essentialism is, maybe, the clan-chief of all these models. And this book has attacked it with an unparllel ferocity. Not just the attacks, but this book has taught us how to live with and tame down essentialism to suit with the ever-changing universe. In one form or another essentialism goes on remaining. So, let us learn a way how to channelize it into thinking in a timely manner in this postmodern world -- this book has taught us.