Practice and Some Muddles about the Methodology of Historical Materialism
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal of Philosophy
- Vol. 3 (2) , 235-248
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1973.10716879
Abstract
Along with the rest of hisCritique de Ia Raison Dialectique,which it introduces, the “Question de Méthode” (widely read by English-speaking students of Marx asSearch foraMethod)takes an important place in the development of Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophical and political thought. However, theSearchis also a challenge to Marxists either to defend or abandon certain of their views, and as such I think it raises some crucial issues. It is the purpose of this essay not to produce a systematic critique of Sartre's influential work, but rather to explore and sharpen some principles of the methodology of historical materialism by critically examining a selection of interrelated misconceptions about Marxism exhibited in theSearchand shared by many friends as well as foes of the historical materialist approach to the study of human society.Keywords
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