Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure (Rle Marxism)

<p>This book first published in 1991 demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of humans as collective cultural and historical beings Marx undertook a radical critique of the theoretical/analytical method of his predecessors and his contemporaries in political economy philosophy and the natural sciences. While elements of the methods of some of these thinkers - most conspicuously from the work of Aristotle Kant and Hegel - were present in Marx's thought he achieved a new synthesis of procedural epistemological and ontological methods.</p>