Marx and the Politics of Abstraction

By Paul Paolucci

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608462099
• ISBN13: 9781608462094
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"