Thomas C Patterson

Karl Marx, Anthropologist

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. "Karl Marx, Anthropologist" explores how this most influential of modern thinkers is still highly relevant for Anthropology today. Marx was profoundly influenced by critical Enlightenment thought. He believed that humans were social individuals that simultaneously satisfied and forged their needs in the contexts of historically particular social relations and created cultures. Marx continually refined the empirical, philosophical, and practical dimensions of his anthropology throughout his lifetime. Assessing key concepts, from the differences between class-based and classless societies to the roles of exploitation, alienation and domination in the making of social individuals, "Karl Marx, Anthropologist" is an essential guide to Marx's anthropological thought for the 21st century

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9781845205119
• ISBN-10: 1845205111
• Artikelnr.: 25693272

Autorenporträt

Tom Patterson is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of California at Riverside. He is author of many publications including Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists (2003) and A Social History of Anthropology in the United States (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chronology Introduction Polemics, Caveats, and Standpoints
Organization of the Book Ch. 1 The Enlightenment and Anthropology Early
Enlightenment Thought The World Historicized The New Anthropology of the
Enlightenment Rousseau's Historical-Dialectical Anthropology The Scottish
Historical Philosophers The Institutionalization of Anthropology Kant's
Pragmatic Anthropology Herder's Historical-Dialectical Anthropology
Göttingen: Beyond "Anthropology for Doctors and Philosophers"Hegel's
Critical-Historical Anthropology Ch.2 Marx's Anthropology What are Human
Beings? The Corporeal Organization of Human Beings "Ensembles of Social
Relations" and Human Beings as Social Individuals History Truth and Praxis
Ch. 3 Human Natural Beings Charles Darwin and the Development of Modern
Evolutionary Theory Darwin's Metaphors and Theory of Evolution by Natural
Selection The Problems of Variation and Inheritance The Modern Synthesis
and Beyond Human Natural Beings: Bodies That Walk, Talk, Make Tools,and
Have Culture Engels's "The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape
to Man" Fossils and Proteins Demography and Population Structure Marx on
the Naturalization of Social Inequality Ch. 4 Anthropology, History, and
Social Formation Marx's Historical-Dialectical Conceptual Framework
Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production Primitive Communism The Asiatic Mode of
Production and the Slavonic Transition The Ancient Mode of Production The
Germanic Mode of Production The Feudal Mode of Production Societies and
Cultures Pre-Capitalist Societies: Limited, Local, and Vital Human History
Is Messy Ch. 5 Capitalism and the Anthropology of the Modern World The
Transition to Capitalism and its Development The Articulation of Modes of
Production Property, Power, and Capitalist States Ch. 6 Anthropology for
the Twenty-First Century Social Relations and the Formation of Social
Individuals Alienation Domination, Exploitation, and Forms of Social
Hierarchy Resistance and Protest Anthropology: "The Study of People in
Crisis by People in Crisis"Notes Bibliography