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Historical Materialism and Social Evolution

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Paul Blackledge

    1. School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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  2. Graeme Kirkpatrick

    1. University of Northumbria, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Historical Materialism and Social Evolution

    • Paul Blackledge, Graeme Kirkpatrick
    Pages 1-7

  3. Historical Materialism: from Social Evolution to Revolutionary Politics

    • Paul Blackledge
    Pages 8-35

  4. Social Darwinism and Socialist Darwinism in Germany: 1860 to 1900

    • Ted Benton
    Pages 36-75

  5. A Darwinian Historical Materialism

    • Paul Nolan
    Pages 76-97

  6. Analytical Marxism and the Debate on Social Evolution

    • Alan Carling
    Pages 98-128

  7. History, Exploitation and Oppression

    • Alex Callinicos
    Pages 129-162

  8. Progress and Technology in Habermas’s Theory of Social Evolution

    • Graeme Kirkpatrick
    Pages 163-189

  9. The Possible Wonders of Technology. Beyond Habermas towards Marcuse: a Critical Framework for Technological Progress

    • Giusseppe Tassone
    Pages 190-212

  10. Lean Production and Economic Evolution in Capitalism

    • Tony Smith
    Pages 213-235

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 236-244
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Historical Materialism and Social Evolution brings together a collection of essays which investigate the relationship between Marxist thought and Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Each of the contributors emphasize the idea that the distinctive character of progressive social thought is derived from creative ideas drawn from the study of natural evolutionary processes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

    Paul Blackledge

  • University of Northumbria, UK

    Graeme Kirkpatrick

About the editors

TED BENTON Lecturer in Sociology, University of Essex ALEX CALLINICOS Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York ALAN CARLING Lecturer, Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies, University of Bradford PAUL NOLAN PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London TONY SMITH Lecturer in Philosophy, Iowa State University GUISSEPPE TASSONE Lecturer, University of York

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