This book traces the development of Dialectical Logic within the history of modern western philosophy, culminating in Marx's materialist dialectics. It brings out the essential contours of Logic through a detailed exposition of the ontological and epistemological issues discussed by the classical French and German philosophers.
The Humanization of Transcendental Philosophy
Thinking is not a detached, objective reflection about the world and existence; it also seeks to intervene in the world and transfigure existence. For a mere description of reality as it exists, a...
Prakash Karat, Aijaz Ahmad, Irfan Habib, Prabhat Patnaik
It has been more influential in the making of the modern world than any other piece of political writing. Rarely has call to arms been phrased in a language of such zest, beauty and purity. One hun...
Science and the Retreat from Reason
Science fascinates us, with popularizations of it regularly heading the bestseller lists, and more people feeling comfortable with the technological applications of science which surround us. Why i...
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
A new analysis of the works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, this book seeks to dispel obscurities and misunderstandings that have resulted in divergent interpretations of their works. The first 3 chap...
Terry Eagleton’s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager...
Making History is about the question – central to social theory – of how human agents draw their powers from the social structures they are involved in. Drawing on classical Marxism, a...
On Social Constraints and the Great Longing
Universities divide, separate and fragment. Life, however, incorporates everything – poetry and politics, religiosity and economics, reason and intuition. Here is a book that is in tune with the ...
Since the inception of philosophy, the question of melancholy has been intimately connected with creativity. Thus, Aristotle could say that creative people – poets and philosophers – are melanc...
The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range...
Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and f...
The Necessity Of Social Control
As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet ...
First published in 1987, Althusser: The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date.
Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material,...
Frantz Fanon: Colonialism and Alienation
Frantz Fanon – doctor, psychiatrist, writer, revolutionary – has had a profound influence upon the revolutionary movements of our time. His political theories developed in the course of the Alg...
This book traces the development of Dialectical Logic within the history of modern western philosophy, culminating in Marx's materialist dialectics. It brings out the essential contours of Logic th...
The achievements of science and technology during the past century are unparalleled in history. They provide the potential for the solution to all the problems faced by the planet, and equally for ...
The "crisis" of liberal democracies in today's world demands from us re-investigation of the notion of the "political". Since the dominant concept of the "political" that is associated with the lib...
This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyses previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, A...
