History and event : from Marxism to contemporary French theory /: from Marxism to contemporary French theory. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nathan Coombs.
• Authors: Coombs, Nathan
• Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; History and Event in Marxist Dialectics; Events and Historical Judgement after Althusser; Chapter Abstracts; PART I -- HISTORY AND EVENT IN MARXIST DIALECTICS; Chapter 1 -- Hegel's Leaps and the Historicist Theory of Knowledge; What is the Logic in the Science of Logic?; At the Limits of Pythagoreanism; The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics; Quality; Quantity; Measure; Hegel contra Cantor (On the Missing Irrationals); Chapter 2 -- Marx's Idea of Communist Transformation; Marx contra Contradiction; The Non-Historicist Logic of Capital. A Synthesis of Evolution and Revolution (with an Extra Element)The Ends of Dialectical Materialism; Chapter 3 -- Lenin's Philosophy: A New Dialectics of Revolution?; On the Narrative: Proponents and Objectors; The Famous Quotes; The Unity of Opposites and Self-Movement; Dialectics in Practice after 1914; From Lenin to Althusser's Theoretical Revolution; PART II -- EVENTS AND HISTORICAL JUDGEMENT AFTER ALTHUSSER; Chapter 4 -- Althusser's Science: Naming the Epistemological Break; A Marxian Epistemology of the New; Theorising Marx's Epistemological Break; Structural Causality; Whose Science? A Materialism for Marxism, or, the Theoretical Void of Late AlthusserChapter 5 -- Badiou's Decision: To Give Up Leadership, Somewhat; Fleeing from and Returning to Althusser; The Subject of Mathematics and the Mathematical Subject; Being, Event, Intervention; Being; Event; Intervention; Constructible Universes and the Vanishing Evental-Site; The Rationalist as Radical Public Intellectual; Chapter 6 -- Meillassoux's Politics: Speculative Justice; Digging Down to the Politics, Discovering Messianic Roots; Esotericism: The Discreet Charm of the Philosophers. After Finitude: In the Spirit of the Fossil?From Meillassoux to ...?; PART III -- SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WHERE THIS ROAD MIGHT TAKE US; Chapter 7 -- Afterword: Towards a Complex Science of History; Complex Systems and Social Change; General and Restricted Complexity; Strong and Weak Emergence; The Politics of Simulation; The End of the Beginning; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 335.4119; History -- Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism; PHILOSOPHY -- Political; History -- Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748699001; 0748699007; 9781474404969; 1474404960
• Related ISBNs: 9780748698998
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 12, 2016).
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