As a modest contribution to remedying this deficiency, this article argues for the importance of understanding Canada as a settler-colonial society, proposes a conceptualization of settler colonialism from the perspective of a
historical materialism reconstructed through engagement with Indigenous anticolonial thought, and offers some preliminary reflections on integrating analysis of settler colonialism into historical and contemporary research on labour.
Lucretianism also provided the template for his
historical materialism. As a result, if this is the lightest chapter in terms of the history of science, properly speaking, it is the chapter that most thoroughly explains how scientific materialism becomes a materialist politics.
Kobo turns his gaze to imperialism, US-Japan relations, literary theory, and
historical materialism,
According to Marx's doctrine of
historical materialism, people's consciousness is determined by the mode of production of material life.
If this method of moving between the real world and the world of epic works better in some chapters than in others, Burlinson's exploration of the boundaries between literary and
historical materialism (as well as the paradoxes it produces) are, as a whole, illuminating.
Given the resistance of my students to those aspects of Watt's argument indebted to
historical materialism, I focused on developing the former, "minor" theoretical elements.
Sartre's self-appointed task is to explain History from the standpoint of "
historical materialism," i.e., what Fredric Jameson rightly describes in his foreword as "orthodox Marxism." Seen from the appropriate perspective, this 836-page Leviathan--Volume One, please note!--is a comic masterpiece-inadvertent, to be sure, and a masterpiece that remains funny only when contemplated from afar, but comic nonetheless.
Avoiding that wrinkle on base-superstructure logic that sees radical ideology dictating literary content, Smethurst accordingly rejects extended analyses of "paraphrasable ideological message[s]," concentrating instead on "the formal influence of [Communist] ideology and institutions on the period's poetry." His Marxian criticism of a Marxian literature focuses on form al properties such as trope, rhyme, and diction, accepting the poetic equivalent of Fredric Jameson's challenge to test the claims of
historical materialism on the level of the sentence.
In this article, I address the confrontation in Kautsky's study of Thomas More between
historical materialism and the providential view of history of More himself.
His study, therefore, is simply a more sophisticated argument for a traditional view of Scott, a view that remains to be "deconstructed." For where Lukacs subscribes to a sense of society as a totality in which social phenomena are immediately accessible to consciousness, deconstruction "would contend that any 'totality' is undermined by its irreducible lack of self-identity, that social phenomena have always already lost their putative transparency" (Coward and Ellis 157).[9] Andrew Parker among others has referred to Marxism's shortcomings in this connection and cites Lukacs's work in particular as an example of a
historical materialism devoid of an adequate theory of language.
For the author, human history and natural history are "dialectically interconnected." Therefore, Marx's analysis of
historical materialism is central to O'Connor in a structural understanding of the current environmental crisis.