Critical Realism and Marxism

by Brown; Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780415250122
• ISBN10: 0415250129
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Critical Realism and Marxismexamines the relationship between critical realism and Marxism, from a wide range of disciplines, arguing that critical realism and Marxism have much to gain from each other. The text deepens our understanding of the social world and thereby makes a contribution towards the eliminating of barbarism in contemporary capitalism.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Preface	xii
Acknowledgements	x
The marriage of critical realism and Marxism: happy, unhappy or on the rocks?	1	(22)
Andrew Brown
Steve Fleetwood
John Michael Roberts
Five ways in which critical realism can help Marxism	23	(20)
Jonathan Joseph
Critical realist arguments in Marx's Capital	43	(14)
Hans G. Ehrbar
What kind of theory is Marx's labour theory of value? A critical realist inquiry	57	(31)
Steve Fleetwood
Capitalism, the regulation approach, and critical realism	88	(28)
Bob Jessop
Critical realism: beyond the Marxism/post-Marxism divide	116	(15)
Neil Curry
Materialism realism and dialectics	131	(24)
Sean Creaven
Dialectic in Marxism and critical realism	155	(13)
Andrew Collier
Developing realistic philosophy: from critical realism to materialist dialectics	168	(19)
Andrew Brown
From spaces of antagonism to spaces of engagement	187	(28)
Noel Castree
The spectral ontology of value	215	(19)
Christopher J. Arthur
Abstracting emancipation: two dialectics on the trail of freedom	234	(23)
John Michael Roberts
Index	257