Description
In Marx 's Experiments and Microscopes: Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions, Paul B. Paolucci examines how Marx brought conventional scientific practice together with dialectical reason to produce his unique approach to sociological research.
Though scholars often interpret his work through a dialectical framework or as that of an aspirant scientific contender, less common are demonstrations of how Marx brought these two forms of inquiry together in ways as familiar to the conventional scientist as they are to the experienced Marxian scholar. This book discusses Marx 's use of a method of successive abstractions in his study of modes of production and elucidates the application of that method to studies in political economy and the sociology of religion.
About the Author
Paul B. Paolucci, Ph.D. (2001, University of Kentucky) is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University. His books on Karl Marx include Marx 's Scientific Dialectics (Brill, 2007), Marx and the Politics of Abstraction (Brill, 2011), and Acquiring Modernity (Brill, 2019).
Book Information
ISBN 9781642593686
Author Paul B. Paolucci
Format Paperback
Page Count 313
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books
