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_b.T58 1995
082 0 0 _a335.411
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100 1 _aTorrance, John.
245 1 0 _aKarl Marx's theory of ideas /
_cby John Torrance.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1995.
263 _a9505
300 _axxi, 433 p. :
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aStudies in Marxism and social theory
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 428-430) and index.
505 0 _aBibliography of works by Marx and Engels -- 1. Marxism versus Marx: what Marx's theory of ideology was not -- 2. Marx's theory of knowledge -- 3. The basis of false consciousness: theory -- 4. The basis of false consciousness: social being -- 5. Social consciousness -- 6. Ideology -- 7. Class struggle, consciousness and ideology -- 8. Justice -- 9. Morality -- 10. The sociology of political economy -- 11. Marx's science and Marxist ideology.
520 _aMarx's ideas about how society presents a misleading appearance to its members have been the subject of many conflicting interpretations. In this book John Torrance takes a fresh, un-Marxist approach to Marx's texts and shows that a more precise, coherent and cogent sociology of ideas can be extracted from them than is generally allowed.
520 8 _aThe implications of this for twentieth-century capitalism and for recent debates about Marx's conceptions of justice, morality and the history of social science are explored. The author argues that Marx's theory of ideas is sufficiently independent of other parts of his thought to provide a critique and explanation of those defects in his own understanding of capitalism which allowed Marxism itself to become, by his own definition, an ideology.
600 1 0 _aMarx, Karl,
_d1818-1883.
650 0 _aIdea (Philosophy)
650 0 _aIdeology.
830 0 _aStudies in Marxism and social theory.
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