Marxism, pluralism, and beyond

Preface PART ONE: A Tale of Two Traditions 1. Historic oppositions, contemporary questions 2. Conventional to critical pluralism 3. Marxism and the 'question of pluralism': historical materialism 4. Marxism: the class analysis of politics 5. Modalities of antagonism and convergence PART TWO: Beyond the Debate? 6 . The conundrums of philosophical pluralism 7. Eclecticism and synthesis in social theory 8. Statism: two variants of a third way 9. Conclusion: 'modest eclecticism' and the restructuring of social theory Bibliography Undergraduates (2nd and 3rd years) in Politics, Sociology and Philosophy specialists in political and social theory informed political commentators and observers

Critical theory · Eclecticism · Epistemology · Materialism · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Statism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Contributions in political science · Cultural pluralism · karl Marx (1818-1883) · Pluralism (Social sciences)