Beschreibung:
Paul Thomas is Professor in Political Science specializing in Political Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Author of Karl Marx and the Anarchists, Alien Politics, Culture and the State (with David Lloyd).
Providing a vivid intellectual history of Marxist and socialist thought, this book explores the development of the idea of scientific socialism through the nineteenth and twentieth century from its origins in Engels to its last manifestation in the work of Althusser.
Preface Introduction 1. Marx and Science 2. Engels and Scientific Socialism 3. The Question of Darwin 4. Scientific Socialism on the Ground: Bernal, Haldane, Needham 5. Scientific Socialism and Dialectical Materialism 6. Alhusser and the Enchantment of Science Conclusion Epilogue: Nature and Artifice in Marx Works Cited