This article explores the basic tenets of historical materialism. It is relevant to identifying general trends materialistic critique evolution human society. The addresses research problems concerning conception history, relationship between base and superstructure, significance mode production, class struggle in development history. deals with through review-based analysis rise reveals that m...

Just as nothing can last forever, people die. However, people die in different ways, for different reasons, and in different situations. While previous research based on Terror Management Theory (TMT) argues that Mortality Salience drives individuals to make different behavioral choices than they otherwise would (for example, previous research has identified Mortality Salience as an antecedent ...

This paper re-reads American Appellate and Supreme Court rulings about the constitutionality of execution by electrocution from perspective new materialism. Using case Provenzano v. Moore, this highlights how existing jurisprudence develops a notion cruelty that deliberately avoids sensual affective dimensions punishment. Given profoundly corporeal nature punishment even more so capital punishm...