Praxis Yugoslav Essays in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences

Praxis Yugoslav Essays in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences / edited by Mihailo Markovic, Gajo Petrovic.

This volume of the Boston Studies is a distillation of one of the most creative and important movements in contemporary social theory. The articles repre­ sent the work of the so-called 'Praxis' group in Yugoslavia, a heterogeneous movement of philosophers, sociologists, political theorist...

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Other Authors: Markovic, Mihailo (Editor), Petrovic, Gajo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1979.
Edition:1st ed. 1979.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 36
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Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy and social sciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • I/Philosophy, Dialectics, and Historical Materialism
  • Dialectic Today
  • The Meaning of Marx’s Philosophy
  • A Tension in Historical Materialism
  • Some One-Sided Conceptions of Social Determinism
  • Historical Science and the Philosophy of History
  • II/Society, Politics and Revolution
  • Homo Politicus
  • Political Dictatorship: The Conflict of Politics and Society
  • Revolution and Terror
  • The Philosophical Concept of Revolution
  • III/Culture, Ideas and Religion
  • Culture as a Bridge Between Utopia and Reality
  • Between Two Types of Modern Culture
  • Ideas and Life
  • The Withering Away of Religion in Socialism
  • Culture and Revolution
  • IV/Socialism, Bureaucracy and Self-Management
  • Theoretical Foundations for the Idea of Self-Management
  • Some Contradictions and Insufficiencies of Yugoslav Self-Managing Socialism
  • Institutionalization of the Revolutionary Movement
  • Bureaucracy — Reified Organization
  • Bureaucracy and Public Communication
  • Social Equality and Inequality in the Bourgeois World and in Socialism
  • Middle Class Ideology
  • Ecstasy and Hangover of a Revolution
  • Notes on Contributors by Gajo Petrovi?
  • Bibliographical Details of the Essays appearing in this Volume
  • Index of Names.

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