FROM INTERPRETATION TO REFUTATION OF MARXISM. ON LESZEK NOWAK’S NON-MARXIAN HISTORICAL MATERIALISM Cover Image

FROM INTERPRETATION TO REFUTATION OF MARXISM. ON LESZEK NOWAK’S NON-MARXIAN HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
FROM INTERPRETATION TO REFUTATION OF MARXISM. ON LESZEK NOWAK’S NON-MARXIAN HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

Author(s): Krzysztof Brzechczyn
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Marxism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Adaptive interpretation of historical materialism; analytical Marxism; idealizational theory of science; Leszek Nowak; non- Marxian historical materialism; real socialism; communism

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to outline the theory of a historical process developed within the framework of the Poznań School of Methodology, mainly by Leszek Nowak and a team of his co-workers. In the first part of the paper, the meta-philosophical and meta-theoretical assumptions of Poznań school are reconstructed and juxtaposed with the relevant assumptions of Western analytical Marxism. In the central part of the paper, the main ideas of adaptive reconstruction of historical materialism and non-Marxian historical materialism are presented. In its final part, some problems of reception of Leszek Nowak’s theory of historical process in Polish People’s Republic and the Third Republic are discussed.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 141-178
  • Page Count: 38
  • Language: English
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