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.Pursuing this ob
There are two opposing models for what drives social change, says Callinicos (politics, U. of York, England). The structural, championed by Karl Marx, considers class-relations and interests to be the
Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which establishment critics have not announced the death of
《創造歷史》處理的是社會科學的核心問題:結構與行動之間的關係。作者廣泛援引了古典馬克思主義、英美分析哲學與許多重要的史學著作,企圖論證:行動者從自身的社會結構之中獲得力量,並藉由這樣的力量來「創造歷史」。換言之,結構在為行動者設下限制的同時,也賦予行動者改變自身處境的能力。本書處理的素材不僅廣泛而且深入,從分析哲學所發展出來的「正統的行動者」概念、柯恩(G. A. Cohen)的「正統歷史唯物論」