Marx and Wittgenstein

First published in 2005. This book has two primary objectives. The first is to show that there are substantial parallels between the work of Marx and Wittgenstein, and the second is to apply a synthesis of these two thinkers to a variety of philosophical and theoretical disputes over the character of the social sciences. Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1 The problem of a social science; Chapter 2 Objectivism in social science; Chapter 3 Subjectivism in social science; Chapter 4; Conclusion to Part I; Part 2 II; Chapter 5 Mind and body; Chapter 6 Mind and action; Chapter 7 Philosophical analysis and understanding ideas; Chapter 8 Explaining action; Chapter 9 The social self; Chapter 10 The epistemology of Marx and Wittgenstein; Chapter 11; Conclusion;