A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism

By Anthony Giddens

Book Overview

What, if anything, is valid in Marx's work today, following the events of 1989 and after in Eastern Europe? The second edition of this highly regarded critical encounter with historical materialism... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520044908
• ISBN13: 9780520044906
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

examplifying structuration theory

This book was intended to be an assessing vulgar Marxism officially. but we should read this book as the attempt to examplify his structuration theory. if u read his major theoretical works like 'central problems in social theory', 'the constitution of society', u must feel get lost for lack of concrete example and abstractness. his writing style on theorizing is not that applausable. sure it's not confined only to him. most theorists in sociology are not better him. even worse, their conceptualizing lack succintness and articulateness. at least Giddens has them. this book must be read as giving example to his structuration theory. sure his critic of vulgar Marxism is also interesting and has good points. but his points in this book like power, time-space distanciation, tradition, nation-state, the discontinuity of capitialism, ~~~ are not intrinsic to Marxism per se. sure his critic is valid but it rather effective to provide good examples to his own theory.