Language and production : a critique of the paradigms
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Language and production : a critique of the paradigms
(Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 96)
D. Reidel Pub. Co. , Kluwer Academic Publishers [distributor], c1986
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Langage et production
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Bibliography: p. 165-188
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In Language and Production, Gyorgy Markus presents us with a pro found critique of contemporary social theory: of the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; of the philosophy of language; of hermeneutics and critical theory; and finally, of Marx and of Marxisms. The sweep of Markus' project is complemented by the extraordinary detail of his analysis and the elaborately developed argument which gives the work its clear logical structure: it is a dialectical work. Markus begins with a critique of the paradigm of language and of that scientific ra tionality modeled on language, as frameworks for the understanding of social reality, and for a rational 'science of society' . After revealing what he takes to be the essential failure of that paradigm in its positivist ver sion (in the work of Sir Karl Popper, who, he argues, remains within the positivist framework despite his differences with other positivists) - Markus examines the alternative interpretations of that paradigm in the hermeneutic tradition from Dilthey through Heidegger and Gadamer, and then in the structural anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss and in the philosophy of language of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In all of these approaches, Markus sees a systematic flaw in the at tempt to frame human action as one or another form of linguistic prac tice, or even to read human self-constitution as essentially linguistic.
Table of Contents
I: On the Paradigm of Language: Positivism and Hermeneutics as Theories of Objectivation.- II: On the Paradigm of Production: Marxian Materialism and the Problem of the Constitution of the Social World.- 1. On the Meaning of Marx's Materialism.- 2. Consumption as an Intrinsic Moment of Productive Activity.- 3. Reification and the Antinomies of Its Overcoming.- 4. Production Versus Communication: Paradigm-Change in Radical Theory.- 5. On the Possibility of Critical Theory.- Appendix I: Four Forms of Critical Theory - Some Theses on Marx's Development.- Appendix II: Marx and the Problem of Technology.- Notes.- Name Index.
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