Karl Marx's Theory of Ideas by John Torrance

Karl Marx's Theory of Ideas by John Torrance

Marx's undeveloped ideas about how society presents a misleading appearance which distorts its members' understanding of it have been the subject of many conflicting interpretations. In this book John Torrance takes a fresh, un-Marxist approach to Marx's texts and shows that a more precise, coherent and cogent sociology of ideas can be extracted from them than is generally allowed. The implications of this for twentieth-century capitalism and for recent debates about Marx's conceptions of justice, morality and the history of social science are explored. The author argues that Marx's theory of ideas is sufficiently independent of other parts of his thought to provide a critique and explanation of those defects in his own understanding of capitalism which allowed Marxism itself to become, by his own definition, an ideology.

"Torrance's book is packed with suggestive notions... The issues raised in the book are indeed of lasting and contemporary importance." Richard D. Chessick, American Journal of Psychotherapy
"...Torrance operates in the analytical mode and aims to give the reader a plausible construal and defense of Marx's ideas -- at least in the area under discussion. And, in this aim, the book very largely succeeds." David McLellan, American Jounral of Sociology

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ISBN 13	9780521066723
ISBN 10	0521066727
Title	Karl Marx's Theory of Ideas
Author	John Torrance
Series	Studies In Marxism And Social Theory
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2008-06-19
Number of pages	456
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