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Equally, pluralists have had to accept that pervasive structural divisions - including class, race and gender, for example - shape political and social interaction. A further major issue is considered: in the current climate of `postmodern' thought is the entire debate between Marxism and pluralism now outmoded? In a series of critical assessments of positions which attempt to go `beyond' Marxism\/pluralism, McLennan argues that the central tensions and positions within this classic dialogue have not yet been superceded.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49593608274193,"sku":"GOR004548463","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49626305036561,"sku":"GOR005283296","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52345805275409,"sku":"NLS9780745603513","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0745603513.jpg?v=1751361628"},{"product_id":"pluralism-book-gregor-mclennan-9780335191543","title":"Pluralism","description":"Having constructed a historical and analytical context within which to view contemporary developments in pluralism, this book concentrates on areas such as feminism and postmodernism. The analysis ranges from relativism and identity to political questions of democracy. The book contains a number of arguments: that \"pluralism\" summarizes what is most important about postmodernism; that there is as much continuity as there is divergence between radical pluralism and liberal pluralism; and that pluralism can most usefully be seen as generating a series of challenging dilemmas. Understood in this way, McLennan argues, pluralism expresses the situation of \"stimulating confusion\" in contemporary social analysis without resolving it. The book is intended for students of sociology, politics, philosophy, women's studies and cultural studies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613883834641,"sku":"GOR002549487","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51528047329553,"sku":"GOR007542880","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0335191541.gif?v=1750940806"},{"product_id":"marxism-and-the-methodologies-of-history-book-gregor-mclennan-9780860917434","title":"Marxism and the Methodologies of History","description":"This work ranges across five areas of debate that have remained largely unconnected until now: epistemology, with special reference to philosophy of science; Marxist theory; philosophy of history; modern historiography; and substantive Marxist interpretations of the past. Its purpose is to clarify the nature, and explanatory competence of historical materialism. What are the philosophical premises of historical materialism? Can any theory of history be justified by philosophical argument alone?   In answering these questions McLennan begins by appraising the conception of science upheld by such thinkers as Popper, Kuhn, and Feyerabend, and the influential reading of historical materialism propounded by G. A. Cohen. Turning to questions of method, he analyses current trends in 'social' and 'socialist history', and assesses the achievement of the Annales School. The third part of the book focuses directed on Marxist interpretation of history, from Marx and Engel's themselves to such contemporary Marxist historians as John Foster and Gareth Stedman Jones.   Marxism and the Methodologies of History is a welcome contribution to a discussion whose complexities engage many key issues of philosophy and history and reach into the very core of Marxism itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49878580953361,"sku":"GOR002550940","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50052125458705,"sku":"GOR008731566","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52862885265681,"sku":"GOR005668895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0860917436.jpg?v=1751139401"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-gregor-mclennan.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}