THEORIES AND NARRATIVES: (Record no. 354036)
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| fixed length control field | 02294nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788131611357 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 901 |
| Item number | CAL.T |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Callinicos, Alex |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | THEORIES AND NARRATIVES: |
| Remainder of title | Reflections on the Philosophy of History |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Jaipur, |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Rawat Publications, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2020. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 252: Pages |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Theories and Narratives explores the relationship between social theory and historical writing. Its aim is to establish the contribution that theory can make to understanding the past.<br/>Pursuing this objective, Alex Callinicos critically confronts a number of leading attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of history, including Francis Fukuyama’s rehabilitation of Hegel’s philosophy of history and the postmodernist efforts of Hayden White and others to deny the existence of a past independent of our representations of it. In these cases philosophical arguments are pursued in tandem with discussions of historical interpretations of, respectively, Stalinism and the Holocaust. Leading theories of history – Marx’s and Weber’s – are then critically compared in the context of the work of recent writers such as <br/>Michael Mann, W.G. Runciman, and Robert Brenner.<br/>Finally, the politics of historical theory is explored in a discussion of Marxism’s claims to be a universal theory of human progress. Swimming against the tide of contemporary fashions, Theories and Narratives seeks to rebuts the claims made by many postmodernists that Marxism is inherently Eurocentric in both its conceptual structures and its political practice. Marx’s project of human emancipation, it concludes, still define our political horizons. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Sympathy for the Devil? Francis Fukuyama and the End of History • Fukuyama and the Left • Kojève: From Hegel to Stalin • Fukuyama: From Spengler to Reagan • History and Reason History as Narrative • The Claims of Narrative • The Specificity of Modern Historical Discourse • Facing the Facts • Theory and Interpretation History as Theory • What is a Theory of History? • Marx or Weber? • Capitalism and Abstraction History as Progress • Meaning in History • The Dialectics of Progress • The Rise of the West • Identity and Emancipation |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Cost, normal purchase price |
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| Dept. of History | Dept. of History | General Stacks | 19/03/2021 | 901 CAL.T | HIS14340 | 19/03/2021 | 19/03/2021 | Book | ||||||
| Dept. of Malayalam | Dept. of Malayalam | Processing Center | 23/09/2021 | 901 CAL/T R0 | MAL61992 | 05/01/2022 | 23/09/2021 | Book | 1195.00 |