Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces
Through a discussion of current perspectives in philosophy of history—especially with a critical approach to Paul Ricœur's work—and a rigorous reading of Karl Marx's oeuvre, Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces proposes a novel interpretation of Marx's concept and method of historical knowledge. In this sense, the examination of Marx's concepts of social space and social time serve to highlight the resources offered by his work, and their possible application in explaining the dynamics of complex multilinear development of human societies and of capitalism in particular.

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Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces
Through a discussion of current perspectives in philosophy of history—especially with a critical approach to Paul Ricœur's work—and a rigorous reading of Karl Marx's oeuvre, Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces proposes a novel interpretation of Marx's concept and method of historical knowledge. In this sense, the examination of Marx's concepts of social space and social time serve to highlight the resources offered by his work, and their possible application in explaining the dynamics of complex multilinear development of human societies and of capitalism in particular.

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Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces

Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces

by George García-Quesada
Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces

Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces

by George García-Quesada

Overview

Through a discussion of current perspectives in philosophy of history—especially with a critical approach to Paul Ricœur's work—and a rigorous reading of Karl Marx's oeuvre, Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces proposes a novel interpretation of Marx's concept and method of historical knowledge. In this sense, the examination of Marx's concepts of social space and social time serve to highlight the resources offered by his work, and their possible application in explaining the dynamics of complex multilinear development of human societies and of capitalism in particular.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781642597844
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 10/25/2022
Series: Historical Materialism
Pages: 190
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

George García-Quesada is Professor at the University of Costa Rica and Director of its Journal of Philosophy. His writings include books on Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life and the history of the middle class in Costa Rica.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

List of Figures and Tables x

Introduction: For a Multilinear Science of History 1

1 History with Social Ontology 17

1.1 Praxis and Spatio-Temporal Totalisation 20

1.2 Historical Being, Historicity and Categories 33

1.3 From World-History to Spatio-Temporal Complexity 42

Epilogue 52

2 Theory, Models and Explanation 54

2.1 Abstraction and Method 56

2.2 Modes of Production and Spatio-Temporal Models 70

2.3 Space-Time in Historical Explanation 81

Epilogue 91

3 In Marx's Archive 94

3.1 Documentary Critique and Critique of Ideology 96

3.2 The Imperial Archive and the Limits to Interpretation 105

3.3 Beyond Marx's Archive 113

Epilogue 121

4 Narrative as Presentation 124

4.1 Presentation, Chronotopes, Narrative 126

4.2 Poetics of Theory 136

4.3 Emplotment as Politics 144

Epilogue 154

Conclusions: Towards a Politics of Spatio-Temporal Totalisation 157

Bibliography 165

Index 183

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