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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"marxist theory"”.
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A sociological analysis of gender in Marxist theory
… analysis. For this purpose I reformulate the Marxist interpretation of the interaction between labour power, surplus value, exchange value and use value. I also assess the contribution of the wages-for-housework debate to a gender-class analysis. Finally I argue that "gender" makes a …
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The problem of hegemony in Gramsci : a critical discussion of Antonio Gramsci'a contribution to a Marxist theory of the state and politics
… with a study of the concept of politics in Marxist theory, and more particularly with Antonio Gramsci's contribution towards a revaluation of historical materialism.
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Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek
… from essentialist Marxism, and towards a post-Marxist theory of hegemony which they adapt from Gramsci, the analytic for overturning contemporary hegemony will take the form of a radical democratic politics. My contention is that in shifting away from essentialist Marxism through their …
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Irish Pop Music in a Global Context
… is the opportunity to look at an early neo-Marxist theory in an age when many believe that Marxism and Socialist theories are things that should be consigned to history along with the cold war. A further reason is that this early neo-Marxist theory on the culture industiy has never been more …
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The disability press: A wheel still in spin
… messages of the disability press, also utilizes Marxist theory to explain empowerment in the disability community. Although Marxism has significant value for explaining disability oppression, Marx's theory of internal relations, describing an interconnected web of organizational structure and the …
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The proletarian perspective: the study of a production of Bertolt Brecht's The good woman of Setzuan
… of the play. An exhaustive survey of either Marxist theory or of the works of Carl Jung as they relate to Brechtian production are clearly outside the scope of this thesis: there are sufficient studies available for further research by the reader. I will examine only those sources which …
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Ecologia come paradigma di resistenza. Il paesaggio minerario di Sardegna: Environmental criticism in aree industriali dismesse
… framework that integrates ecocriticism, Marxist theory, and postcolonial studies. By critically engaging with works by Dickens, Zola, Orwell, and Angioni, the research elucidates how extractive practices mirror a broader system of socio-ecological injustice. It argues that extractivism …
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The impossible paradigm: an approach to producing knowledge
… the repetition of a preestablished process. In Marxist theory, social reproduction refers to societal processes, within education and economics for instance, whose intention is the remanifestation of capitalist relationships (Marx 1887). Through critical pedagogy and Afrofuturism, I analyse the …
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The Valuation of Literature: Triangulating the Rhetorical with the Economic Metaphor
<p>Several theorists, including the Marxist theorists Trevor Ross, Walter Benjamin, and M.H. Abrams, have proposed theories to explain the eighteenth-century shift from functional to aesthetic conceptions of literature. Their explanations attribute the change to an increasingly consumer-based …
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Why is the South so Conservative? A Marxian Analysis of Alienation, Religion, and Political Ideology Among Poor Southern White Voters
The purpose of this study is to use Marxist theory of alienation to explain voting patterns among impoverished Southerners. This research is important in explaining the relationship among alienation, religiosity, politics of opposition, and their impact on voting trends in the southern portion of …
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Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature
… conservative genre. However, Ernst Bloch’s Marxist theory of a utopian anticipatory consciousness and his concept of nonsynchronism recognize a progressive, utopian function within the archetypes and allegories of fairy tales, a precursor to modern fantasy. Bloch argues that archetypes are …
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Hopelessness and Despair: Alienation and Oppression in <em>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</em> by Carson McCullers.
… that societal reform was desperately needed. Marxist theory is evident in every aspect of this novel, from the characters to the setting. Alienation, failure to communicate, poverty, and an atmosphere of despair permeate the work. A product of the Great Depression era, McCullers was familiar …
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Development, underdevelopment and the reproduction of the individual private sector of agriculture in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.
… basis of socialist transformation embedded in Marxist theory of development, and the way this has contributed to the perception of the agrarian structure in post-war Yugoslavia. While policy stressed the superiority of the public sector, we now find that government officials are encouraging the …
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The crisis of leftist urban theory in postmodernism : the case of the L.A. 'School'
… attempt to portray the whole history of social theory in this period but instead it is an investigation into the ways a particular group of leftist scholars approach a city having selected from this heritage particular methods of explanation. In particular it is focused on postmodernism as a …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… the schismatic Left, a loose conglomeration of Marxist and Materialists who were both anti-Liberal and anti-Soviet. Bookchin worked with Weber until the latter’s death in 1959. The two men formed a powerful intellectual and personal relationship that influenced Bookchin’s career well into the …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… the schismatic Left, a loose conglomeration of Marxist and Materialists who were both anti-Liberal and anti-Soviet. Bookchin worked with Weber until the latter’s death in 1959. The two men formed a powerful intellectual and personal relationship that influenced Bookchin’s career well into the …
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Filosofický revizionismus v Československu mezi lety 1956-1968
The diploma thesis deals with Marxist philosophy in Czechoslovakia between 1956 and 1968, it focuses especially on Marxist humanism. The XX. Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956 and the Khrushchev's critique of Stalinism gave opportunity for critical approach in Marxist …
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The architecture of the extended mind: towards a critical urban ecology
… including architecture, cybernetics, Marxist theory, ecology and the cognitive sciences. Ultimately, this thesis suggests that critical urban ecology – the architectural investigation of ecological aesthetics and urban political ecology – will be a key field of both theoretical …
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The Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Education: A Security and Freedom for the Other
… world. Drawing from Levinasian scholarship, Marxist theory, critical pedagogy and critical theory, I conduct a critical philosophical analysis of FLE and EE security and freedom narratives, examining the claim that FLE, EE and their attendant economic practices, laws and institutions will …
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From the demise of theory to its resurgence. A retrospective on the postmodern turn to rethink the 'desire for narrative' and the sublime untimeliness of emancipation
Cultural Marxist Theory, commonly known as theory, enjoyed a moment of extraordinary success in the 1970s, when the works of leading post-war French philosophers were published in English. After relocating to Anglophone academia, however, theory disavowed its original concerns and lost its ambition …
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