Materialism, Politics, and the History of Philosophy
French, German, and Turkish Materialist Authors in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20038604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ayşe Yuva (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 293-312 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Materialism and Politics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | ICI Berlin Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.37050/ci-20_16 |
| OpenAlex | W3130948481 |
| ISBN | 9783965580183 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The aim of this chapter is to analyse the political uses of the categorization of eighteenth-century French materialism as mechanistic and reductionist. Regardless of the current or outdated character of these materialisms, their rejection and the narratives that endorsed such judgments appear as partly ideological. Using several examples, this chapter will examine how this reductionist image of eighteenth-century French materialism was formed in the nineteenth century. It aims to show that the quarrels about materialism focused at that time on the question of a society’s dominant beliefs
Aesthetics · Art · Categorization · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Ideology · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Reductionism · Social science · Sociology · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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