Making History. Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory. [Neubuch] Historical Materialism Book Series 3.

Callinicos, Alex:

ISBN 10: 9004136274 / ISBN 13: 9789004136274

Published by Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2004

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• Title: Making History. Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory. [Neubuch] Historical Materialism Book Series 3.
• Publisher: Leiden/Boston, Brill
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004136274
• ISBN 13: 9789004136274
• Binding: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Edition: 1. Auflage.
• Condition: Neu
• Weight: 680 grams
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Synopsis

Making History is about the question - central to social theory - of how human agents draw their powers from the social structures they are involved in. Drawing on classical Marxism, analytical philosophy, and a wide range of historical writing, Alex Callinicos seeks to avoid two unacceptable extremes - dissolving the subject into an impersonal flux, as poststructuralists tend to - and treating social structures as the mere effects of individual action (for example, rational-choice theory). Among those discussed are Althusser, Anderson, Benjamin, Brenner, Cohen, Elster, Foucault, Giddens, Habermas, and Mann. Callinicos has written an extended introduction to this new edition that reviews developments since Making History was first published in 1987. This republication gives a new generation of readers access to an important intervention in Marxism and social theory.

About the Author

Alex Callinicos, D.Phil. (1979) in Philosoph, University of Oxford, is Professor of Politics at the University of York (UK). He has written widely about Marxism and social theory. His most recent books are Social Theory (1999), Equality (2000), Against the Third Way (2001), and An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (2003), all published by Polity.