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The poverty of theory: or an orrery of errors (Record no. 529983)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789350020814 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | pbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 335.413 |
| Item number | THO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Thompson, E. P. |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The poverty of theory: or an orrery of errors |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / E. P. Thompson |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | AakarBooks, Delhi: 2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi, 303 pages ; 22 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The result is a major critique of Althusserian Marxism, or ‘theoretical practice’, entering closely into questions of epistemology and of the theory and practice of the historian. Around this detailed polemic, Thompson develops a constructive view of an alternative, socialist tradition, empirical and self-critical in method, and fully open to the creative practice evidenced by history – a tradition sharply opposed to much that now passes as ‘Marxism’. In converging shafts to close analysis and Swiftian irony, the author defoliates Althusser’s arcane, rationalist rhetoric and reinstates ‘historicism’, ‘empiricism’, ‘moralism’ and ‘socialist humanism’ in a different Marxist inheritance. The title of this essay echoesThe Poverty of Philosophy, Marx’s annihilating attack on Proudhon, which, like Engels’ Anti-Dühring, is a work read long after its subject has been consigned to oblivion. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Socialism |
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| Koha item type | English Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 4TH FLOOR, A WING | 22.08.2024 | 335.413 THO | 672907 | 22.08.2024 | English Books | ||||
| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 4TH FLOOR, A WING | 22.08.2024 | 335.413 THO | 672908 | 22.08.2024 | English Books |