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Capital as a Social Kind: Definitions and Transformations in the Critique of Political Economy (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) by Howard Engelskirchen; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds in social theory. Thinking about kinds, the way we sort the things of the world into categories -- water, for example, is a natural kind - has made an important contribution to our understanding of science in the last half century, but these advances have been largely applicable to the natural, rather than the social sciences. Drawing on the rich examples offered by Marx's analysis of capital and exploring a methodology that will be of interest to both Marxist and non-Marxist social theorists alike, Capital as a Social Kind extends this approach to the study of social life. The book argues that, provoked by his study of Aristotle, Marx's attentions foreshadowed contemporary themes in the realist philosophy of science. Importantly, social kind analysis is relevant not only to understanding his critique of political economy but illuminates also a materialist study of law, justice, morality and the transition to socialism. Social kind analysis also opens a path for the development of today's moral realism by suggesting the need for a systematic study of the causal structures of social life. In this respect the importanc
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- Author
- Howard Engelskirchen; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203828748
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Economics, Science, Business