Marx and the Postmodernism Debates
Subtitle: An Agenda for Critical Theory
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: September 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780275968892
Subjects: Marxism & Communism; Political science & theory; Postmodernism; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Marxism (Political Theory); Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; General; History & Theory - General; Sociology - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political; 1818-1883; Contributions in political sci; Critical theory; Marx, Karl,; Political aspects
First sentence: The project of modernity has been characterized succinctly as follows: From its beginnings, the project of the moderns entailed two conceptions of reason; the first was technical-instrumental reason whose vision was strikingly captured by Descartes' phrase that the task is "to render ourselves masters and possessors of nature."