Power and Marxist Theory: A Realist View by Jeffrey C. Isaac

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Oxford: Blackwell, 1972). Skinner's analysis here draws heavily upon j. L. : Harvard University Press, 1962). 29Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959). , Idioms of Inquiry; Critique and Renewal in Political Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987). 31John Dunn, "Practicing History and Social Science on 'Realist' Assumptions," C. Hookway and P. , Action and Interpretation: Studies in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), pp.

These ideas about what is going on are essential to define the institution. They are essential if there is to be voting here, and not some other activity which could be carried on by putting stones in urns. 34 In 54 Empiricism, Realism, and Power Taylor thus contends that the explanation of human action must be in terms of the practical understandings, norms, and purposes of human agents. This kind of explanation, for Taylor, is radically different from the explanation of narure because, unlike nature, the object of human science is itself normatively constituted.

Issues in Marxist Philosophy, vol. 3 (Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979), and Ted Beman, The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism: Althusser and His Influence (New York: St. Martin's, 1984), esp. pp. 35- 51. 54Giddens, New Rules, p. 160. 55Giddens, Central Problems, p. 106. 56Steven Lukes, "Power and Structure," in his Essays in Social Theory (London: Macmillan, 1977). 57Stephen Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976). 58 1 draw here upon Peter T.

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