Some of the most popular approaches to understanding history are the least convincing. Most people still learn that history ...

One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet called ‘historical materialism’ is to win all the time. It can easily be a match for anyone if it enlists the services of ...

His historical materialism was a great achievement in scientific thinking. The chaos and arbitrariness that had previously reigned in views on history and politics were replaced by a strikingly ...

She is the author of The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism: A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence (Cambridge University Press) and has co-edited several books, among them On Your ...

Marx’s Ethical Vision (2024) shows that the founder of historical materialism held nuanced views about the role that morality ...

The author defends historical materialism against contemporary anti-Marxist philosophical tendencies related to the Frankfurt School and postmodernism. This book is available for purchase from ...