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Marx and the Politics of Abstraction

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Paolucci convincingly argues that by mixing political and scientific analysis, Marx yields a method closest to that of scientific inquiry.
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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.
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Pages: 239
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Publication Date: 18 September 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9781608462094
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political science and theory, Scientific research, Political ideologies and movements
Paul B. Paolucci, Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology, University of Kentucky, is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University. He has published several works on Marxist theory, method, and political economics, including Marx's Scientific Dialectics (Haymarket, 2009)
Author’s Foreword

1. Science and Politics
2. Critique and Method
3. Inquiry and Abstraction
4. Relational Sociology and Dialectic
5. Teleology and Dialectic
6. Marx’s Political Science
Afterword

References
Index