Author | : John Torrance |
File Size | : 52,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 04 May 1995 |
ISBN | : 0521440661 |
Pages | : 462 pages |
Karl Marx s Theory of Ideas by John Torrance Book PDF Summary
Marx's undeveloped ideas about how society presents a misleading appearance which distorts its members' understanding of it have been the subject of many conflicting interpretations. In this book John Torrance takes a fresh, un-Marxist approach to Marx's texts and shows that a more precise, coherent and cogent sociology of ideas can be extracted from them than is generally allowed. The implications of this for twentieth-century capitalism and for recent debates about Marx's conceptions of justice, morality and the history of social science are explored. The author argues that Marx's theory of ideas is sufficiently independent of other parts of his thought to provide a critique and explanation of those defects in his own understanding of capitalism which allowed Marxism itself to become, by his own definition, an ideology.