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Language and Production

A Critique of the Paradigms

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  • © 1986

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Authors:
  1. Gyorgy Markus

    1. Department of General Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 96)

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Table of contents (2 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. On the Paradigm of Language: Positivism and Hermeneutics as Theories of Objectivation

    • Gyorgy Markus
    Pages 1-40

  3. On the Paradigm of Production: Marxian Materialism and the Problem of the Constitution of the Social World

    • Gyorgy Markus
    Pages 41-125

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 126-190
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About this book

In Language and Production, Gyorgy Markus presents us with a pro­ found critique of contemporary social theory: of the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; of the philosophy of language; of hermeneutics and critical theory; and finally, of Marx and of Marxisms. The sweep of Markus' project is complemented by the extraordinary detail of his analysis and the elaborately developed argument which gives the work its clear logical structure: it is a dialectical work. Markus begins with a critique of the paradigm of language and of that scientific ra­ tionality modeled on language, as frameworks for the understanding of social reality, and for a rational 'science of society' . After revealing what he takes to be the essential failure of that paradigm in its positivist ver­ sion (in the work of Sir Karl Popper, who, he argues, remains within the positivist framework despite his differences with other positivists) - Markus examines the alternative interpretations of that paradigm in the hermeneutic tradition from Dilthey through Heidegger and Gadamer, and then in the structural anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss and in the philosophy of language of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In all of these approaches, Markus sees a systematic flaw in the at­ tempt to frame human action as one or another form of linguistic prac­ tice, or even to read human self-constitution as essentially linguistic.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of General Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Gyorgy Markus

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language and Production

  • Book Subtitle: A Critique of the Paradigms

  • Authors: Gyorgy Markus

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4574-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2169-3Published: 30 June 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8532-8Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4574-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 190

  • Additional Information: Originally published in French

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Anthropology, Sociology, general

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