Historical Materialism

Revisiting the Fundamental Concepts
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-89346-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Marx and Marxisms

First published in French, this book by Tony Andréani, a prolific French Marxist scholar, summarises decades of research on Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism.

Written to further debate among scholars and beyond, Andréani develops the fundamental concepts of the Marxist theory of history as they apply to any society, particularly the so-called "economic" concepts, in their opposition to neo-classical theory and to reductive readings common among Marxist authors. He later discusses the theory of modes of production to then sketch an analysis of the course of history, which is the subject of much debate among Marxist historians. In the latter parts of the book, the reader will learn more about the origin of inequalities, historical dialectics, and the perspectives of socialism.

The publication of Matérialisme Historique: Les concepts fondamentaux revisités (Paris: l'Harmattan, 2022) in an English translation with updates will be welcomed by scholars familiar with the French edition and eager to have Tony Andréani's original vision on the basic concepts of historical materialism made available to Anglophone audiences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andreani, Tony

Andréani, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.  Introduction, an Overview.  Chapter 1: Concrete labour and “abstract” labour  Chapter 2. The labour process I. The productive force of labour  Chapter 3. The labour process II. The relation between workers and the means of labour  Chapter 4. The labour process III. Cooperation  Chapter 5. The labour process IV. Productive labour and unproductive labour  Chapter 6. The process of “value” production and distribution  Chapter 7. The processes of socio-economic reproduction  Chapter 8. The socio-economic superstructure  Chapter 9. Effects of the mode of production on the natural environment  Chapter 10. Free time and the consumption process Chapter 11. The political-ideological superstructure  Chapter 12. Classless modes of production  Chapter 13. Class-based modes of production  Chapter 14. Social classes  Chapter 15. The psycho-social origins of inequalities Chapter 16. The course of history: A sketch  Chapter 17. Global “systems”  Chapter 18. Negative and positive dialectics in history  Chapter 19. The prospect of socialism

Über Autor(innen)

Tony Andréani, PhD in philosophy, is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Paris VIII. His major works include De la société à l'histoire (2 volumes, Paris: Editions Meridiens-Klincksieck, 1989), Discours sur l'égalité parmi les hommes (Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 1993), Un être de raison, critique de l'homo Oeconomicus (Paris: Editions Syllepse, 2000), Socialisme est (a)venir, (2 volumes, Paris: Editions Syllepse, 2001 and 2004), and Ten Essays for a 21st Century Socialism (London: Routledge, 2025).