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The following discussion presents an overview of Marx’s theory of alienation. In contrast to the usual presentation of the subject, we will demonstrate that Marx’s theory of alienation is unintelligible without a prior assimilation of the philosophical method by which it was derived. This in turn leads to a major problem. The philosophical outlook and categories employed by Marx are quite forei...

In the editorial by Drs Marx and Bucher in the March/April 2003 issue of Evidence-Based Medicine, an example illustrating the application of estimates of RRRs to individual risk is misleading. In their example, Marx and Bucher state that the NNTwould increase in patients with a baseline risk 11 times that of the low risk group, which is counterintuitive. If a high risk patient is judged to have...

In the present paper I sketch three genres of sociology of knowledge and trace their roots to Marx and Marxist literature while reconstructing two causal and one hermeneutic strand in this context. While so doing the main focus is set on György Lukács and György Márkus and their interpretation of Marx’s contribution to sociologically minded theories of knowledge. As a conclusion I point out tha...

and the Paradox of Contemporary Political Thought Stanley Rothman W ITH all the volumes that have been written about Marx and Marxism in recent years, there has been little or no attempt, in the English-speaking world at least, to relate his thinking to the general development of modem European philosophic speculation.' Fundamentally this is because Marx has received short shrift as a philosoph...

Michael Reich is Professor of Political Economy at U. C. Berkeley. This article was written in 1974, hence used only data available at that time. His research was repeated on later census data in his book Racial Inequality: A Political-Economic Analysis, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press), 1981, and by other researchers, with similar results. His main thesis is that most workers are ...