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Book SynopsisThe authors of this book reconstruct the philosophical, methodological and theoretical assumptions of non-Marxian historical materialism, a theory of historical process authored by Leszek Nowak (1943-2009), a co-founder of the Poznań School of Methodology. This book compares this theory with the concepts of Robert Michels, Vilfredo Pareto and Karl August Wittfogel.
Table of ContentsOn Non-Marxian Historical Materialism. Preface Krzysztof Brzechczyn List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors part 1 On Methodology of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism 1 Reflections on the Historiosophical System of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism Jerzy Topolski 2 Leszek Nowak’s Historiosophy from Historical and Systematical Perspectives Waldemar Czajkowski 3 Modeling the Dynamics of the Social Process in the Philosophy of Liberalism: Leszek Nowak’s Critique of Liberal Historiosophy Piotr Przybysz 4 An Analysis of the Methodology of Leszek Nowak’s Non-Marxian Historical Materialism Krzysztof Kiedrowski 5 The Paraphrase Method in Leszek Nowak’s Interhuman Model of Man Aleksandra Gomułczak part 2 Non-Marxian Historical Materialism: Paraphrases and Comparisons 6 The Class Structure of Hydraulic Societies: An Attempt at a Paraphrase of Karl August Witttfogel’s Theory in the Conceptual Framework of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism Tomasz Zarębski 7 The Image of a Social Structure in Manusmṛti: An Attempt at a Theoretical Analysis Marta Bręgiel-Pant 8 A Victorious Revolution and a Lost Modernization: An Attempt to Paraphrase Theda Skocpol’s Theory of Social Revolution in the Conceptual Apparatus of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism Krzysztof Brzechczyn 9 The Elitarian versus Class Theory of Democracy: An Attempt to Paraphrase the Mechanism of the Absorption of the Elites from Eva Etzioni-Halevy’s Theory in the Conceptual Apparatus of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism Karolina Rutkowska 10 Leszek Nowak’s non-Marxian Historical Materialism and Pareto’s Elite Theory: Similarities and Differences Giacomo Borbone 11 The Iron Law of Oligarchy versus the Rule of Political Competition: An Attempt at a Comparison between Robert Michels’ and Leszek Nowak’s Approaches to Power Regina Menke 12 The Social Role of the Ceremonial: Andrzej Falkiewicz’s Conception of Culture and the Theory of the Spiritual Momentum in Non-Marxian Historical Materialism Iwo Greczko Name index Subject index
