{"product_id":"concrete-critical-theory-althusser-s-marxism-9781642597899","title":"Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser’s Marxism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking an analytic and historical approach, this work develops and defends Althusserian critical theory. This theory, it is argued, produces knowledge of how a particular class of people, in a particular time, in a particular place, is dominated, oppressed, or exploited. Moreover, without relying on a general notion of human emancipation, concrete critical theory can suggest political means for the alleviation of these conditions. Because it puts Althusser's ideas in dialogue with contemporary social science and philosophy, the book as a whole makes contributions to Althusser studies, to Anglo-American political philosophy, and to current debates in the philosophy of the social sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1  Concrete Analysis and Frankfurt School Critical Theory\u003cbr\u003e 2  Methodology\u003cbr\u003e 3  Structure the Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 ‘But Didn’t He Kill His Wife?’\u003cbr\u003e 1  The Duty to Cite\u003cbr\u003e 2  Countervailing Harms\u003cbr\u003e 3  External and Internal Approaches\u003cbr\u003e 4  A Duty to Speak and to Respond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Althusser’s Scientism\u003cbr\u003e 1  Definition of Althusser’s Scientism\u003cbr\u003e 2  Althusser’s (Mostly) Consistent Scientism: 1960–1980\u003cbr\u003e 3  Althusser 1982–1987: Marxist Philosophy without Marxist Science?\u003cbr\u003e 4  An Aleatory Materialism Consistent with Marxist Science?\u003cbr\u003e 5  Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Historical Materialism and Concrete Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 1  The Theoretical and Political Context for Concrete Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 2  Althusser’s Original Formulation of Concrete Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 3  Critique of Concrete Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 4  Reconstructing Concrete Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 5  Historical Materialism and Critical Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 ‘Class as Concrete and Normative’\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1  Gender Theories\u003cbr\u003e 2  Marxian Class Theories\u003cbr\u003e 3  Trait\/Norm Covariant Class Model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Separating Racist Science from Racial Science\u003cbr\u003e 1  Separating Science from Ideology\u003cbr\u003e 2  Critical Technique Defined\u003cbr\u003e 3  Critical Technique Applied\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Manipulation of Consent and Deliberative Democracy\u003cbr\u003e 1  Deliberation from Procedural to Feasible\u003cbr\u003e 2  Obstacles to Deliberation\u003cbr\u003e 3  Overcoming Obstacles\u003cbr\u003e 4  Insurmountable Obstacles?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Cosmopolitanism and Class Erasure\u003cbr\u003e 1  Against a ‘Cosmopolitanism of Fear’\u003cbr\u003e 2  Reconstruction of Althusser’s Anti-Cosmopolitan Argument\u003cbr\u003e 3  Contemporary Cosmopolitanisms\u003cbr\u003e 4  Critique of Moral and Cultural Cosmopolitanisms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020204540247,"sku":"9781642597899","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781642597899.jpg?v=1750782754","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/concrete-critical-theory-althusser-s-marxism-9781642597899","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}