History and Event: From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory

Nathan Coombs

History and Event

From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory

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Nathan Coombs

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: August 2016
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9780748699001

Subjects:: Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy

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Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, Coombs explores the technical details of both traditions' historical sciences.

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From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface and Acknowledgements
pp vii-x

Introduction
pp 1-16

Part I - History and Event in Marxist Dialectics
pp 17-18

1 - Hegel's Leaps and the Historicist Theory of Knowledge
pp 19-40

2 - Marx's Idea of Communist Transformation
pp 41-65

3 - Lenin's Philosophy: A New Dialectics of Revolution?
pp 66-88

Part II - Events and Historical Judgement after Althusser
pp 89-90

4 - Althusser's Science: Naming the Epistemological Break
pp 91-113

5 - Badiou's Decision: To Give Up Leadership, Somewhat
pp 114-139

6 - Meillassoux's Politics: Speculative Justice
pp 140-160

Part III - Suggestions about Where this Road Might Take Us
pp 161-162

7 - Afterword: Towards a Complex Science of History
pp 163-180

Notes
pp 181-190

Bibliography
pp 191-206

Index
pp 207-213

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