Materialism against Materialism

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This text proposes to overcome the wide-spread error of dismissing Marx’s critique all materialism before him as being reductionist and therefore philosophically scientifically unacceptable. Instead, it attempts create a non-reductionist understanding practice in philosophy — especially by referring key contributions Althusser Bhaskar criticizing ‘materialist illusion’ early Marx thereby articulating another element ‘finite Marxism’ defended author.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Cultural inquiry

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2627-731X', '2627-728X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-20_15