01421nam a2200193Ia 4500 240822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9789350020814 pbk eng 335.413 THO Thompson, E. P. The poverty of theory: or an orrery of errors / E. P. Thompson 1st ed. AakarBooks, Delhi: 2010. xi, 303 pages ; 22 cm 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. Socialism ENGLISH 529983 529983 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 4A 2024-08-22 0 335.413 THO 672907 2024-08-22 10:56:08 2024-08-22 ENGLISH 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 4A 2024-08-22 0 335.413 THO 672908 2024-08-22 10:56:08 2024-08-22 ENGLISH