Throwing the dice of history with Marx : the plurality of historical worlds from Epicurus to modern science
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Throwing the dice of history with Marx : the plurality of historical worlds from Epicurus to modern science
（Historical materialism book series, 277）
Brill, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-410) and index
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Description
By digging through the stratigraphy of the history of ideas we can find within and beyond Marxism an 'aleatory current' that values the role of chance in history. Using this perspective, the book builds a case for a historical materialism that is stripped of all teleology. Starting in the ancient Mediterranean with Epicurus, it traces the history of conceiving history as plural up to Marxism and modern science. It shows that concrete historical 'worlds' such as ancient Mesoamerica and Eurasia cannot be reduced to a single template. Affirming the potentiality of a future non-capitalist 'world', it invalidates any 'end of history' thesis.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
1 The Aleatory Current in Philosophy and the Present Conjuncture
2 The Ancient Atomists on Nature, Humankind and History
3 Encounters with Ancient and New Worlds
4 Universal History from a Materialist Perspective
5 Marx and the Thesis of the Plurality of Worlds
6 'The Relics of Bygone Instruments', Marxist Archaeology and the Thesis of the Plurality of Worlds
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