THE LIMITS OF WESTERN MARXISM: A CRITIQUE OF SOCIAL ONTOLOGY SINCE WORLD WAR II.

Title: THE LIMITS OF WESTERN MARXISM: A CRITIQUE OF SOCIAL ONTOLOGY SINCE WORLD WAR II.
Identifier: AAI8203328
identifier: 8203328
Creator: SNEDEKER, GEORGE.
Contributor: Prof. George Fischer
Date: 1981
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology, Theory and Methods
Abstract: In this dissertation I attempt to display the theoretical presuppositions and limits of post-World War II Western Marxism. I analyze the writings of Henri Lefebvre, Jurgen Haberman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, E. P. Thompson, and Harry Braverman. In addition to providing a textual analysis, I develop a criticism of social ontology.;I oppose the social ontology of Western Marxism to the historical perspective of Classical Marxism. I elaborate this fundamental opposition throughout the dissertation. In closing, I situate the development of Western Marxism within the historical context of the cold war. By means of that historical grounding, I bring out still further the limits of Western Marxism as a social theory of late capitalism.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Sociology

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