Leonard Jackson

The Dematerialisation of Karl Marx (eBook, ePUB)

Literature and Marxist Theory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume constitutes both an attack on modern left wing literary theory - the main product of the last Marxist renaissance in the past thirty years - and a defence of the one element of Marxism which, in the general collapse, modern theorists have been happiest to lose, its economic materialism. It traces Marxist theory from its beginnings in Hegelian idealism to its end in Althusser's structuralism, and concludes that while Marxist economics will not work, and the type of revolution prophesied was fantasy, the principle of historical materialism remains intact and defensible. This will be a key text in literary and cultural studies as well as being of interest to students on philosophy and sociology courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317898276
• Artikelnr.: 41220982

Autorenporträt

Leonard Jackson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction. A Defence of Materialism Part One: The
Politics of Literary Criticism 1. Literary Criticism as a political
reaction. Scholarship, Criticism and theory in the 20th century Part Two:
The Foundations of Marxist Theory 2. The mental basis of reality. Idealism
and the human subject 3. A complete boureois ideology. The Philosophy of
Hegel 4. Hegelian Marxism. Alienation , the dialectic and socialist science
5. Scientific Marxism. Marxist theories of history, society, revolution and
value Part Three: Marxist Theory and Literature 6. Economistic Marxism and
critical interpretation. The case of landscape and Cauldwell's History of
Poetry 7. Class consciousness and ideology 8. Structural Marxism and power
Fantasy. Althusser and Foucault 9. The Rejection of literature. From
Raymond Williams to the English Althusserians 10. Two forms of cultural
materialism. Materialism in anthropology and in cultural studies Index