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Non-Marxian Historical Materialism: Reconstructions and Comparisons
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The authors of this book reconstruct the philosophical, methodological and theoretical assumptions of non-Marxian historical materialism, a theory of historical process authored by Leszek Nowak (1943-2009), a co-founder of the Poznań School of Methodology. In the first part of the book, philosophical assumptions of this theory are compared with the concepts of Robert Nozick, Immanuel Wallerstein, André Gunder Frank and analytical Marxism. In the second part, non-Marxian historical materialism is compared with the concepts of Eva Etzioni-Halevy, Andrzej Falkiewicz, Robert Michels, Vilfredo Pareto, Theda Skocpol and Karl August Wittfogel.
Krzysztof Brzechczyn is (titular) Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He has published five books and numerous articles in Chinese, English, German, Italian, Polish, and Romanian. His fields of interest are: philosophy of history, philosophy of social sciences, political and social philosophy, and theory of history.
On Non-Marxian Historical Materialism. Preface
Krzysztof Brzechczyn
List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
part 1
On Methodology of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
1 Reflections on the Historiosophical System of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Jerzy Topolski
2 Leszek Nowak’s Historiosophy from Historical and Systematical Perspectives
Waldemar Czajkowski
3 Modeling the Dynamics of the Social Process in the Philosophy of Liberalism: Leszek Nowak’s Critique of Liberal Historiosophy
Piotr Przybysz
4 An Analysis of the Methodology of Leszek Nowak’s Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Krzysztof Kiedrowski
5 The Paraphrase Method in Leszek Nowak’s Interhuman Model of Man
Aleksandra Gomułczak
part 2
Non-Marxian Historical Materialism: Paraphrases and Comparisons
6 The Class Structure of Hydraulic Societies: An Attempt at a Paraphrase of Karl August Witttfogel’s Theory in the Conceptual Framework of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Tomasz Zarębski
7 The Image of a Social Structure in Manusmṛti: An Attempt at a Theoretical Analysis
Marta Bręgiel-Pant
8 A Victorious Revolution and a Lost Modernization: An Attempt to Paraphrase Theda Skocpol’s Theory of Social Revolution in the Conceptual Apparatus of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Krzysztof Brzechczyn
9 The Elitarian versus Class Theory of Democracy: An Attempt to Paraphrase the Mechanism of the Absorption of the Elites from Eva Etzioni-Halevy’s Theory in the Conceptual Apparatus of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Karolina Rutkowska
10 Leszek Nowak’s non-Marxian Historical Materialism and Pareto’s Elite Theory: Similarities and Differences
Giacomo Borbone
11 The Iron Law of Oligarchy versus the Rule of Political Competition: An Attempt at a Comparison between Robert Michels’ and Leszek Nowak’s Approaches to Power
Regina Menke
12 The Social Role of the Ceremonial: Andrzej Falkiewicz’s Conception of Culture and the Theory of the Spiritual Momentum in Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Iwo Greczko
Name index
Subject index
Krzysztof Brzechczyn
List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
part 1
On Methodology of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
1 Reflections on the Historiosophical System of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Jerzy Topolski
2 Leszek Nowak’s Historiosophy from Historical and Systematical Perspectives
Waldemar Czajkowski
3 Modeling the Dynamics of the Social Process in the Philosophy of Liberalism: Leszek Nowak’s Critique of Liberal Historiosophy
Piotr Przybysz
4 An Analysis of the Methodology of Leszek Nowak’s Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Krzysztof Kiedrowski
5 The Paraphrase Method in Leszek Nowak’s Interhuman Model of Man
Aleksandra Gomułczak
part 2
Non-Marxian Historical Materialism: Paraphrases and Comparisons
6 The Class Structure of Hydraulic Societies: An Attempt at a Paraphrase of Karl August Witttfogel’s Theory in the Conceptual Framework of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Tomasz Zarębski
7 The Image of a Social Structure in Manusmṛti: An Attempt at a Theoretical Analysis
Marta Bręgiel-Pant
8 A Victorious Revolution and a Lost Modernization: An Attempt to Paraphrase Theda Skocpol’s Theory of Social Revolution in the Conceptual Apparatus of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Krzysztof Brzechczyn
9 The Elitarian versus Class Theory of Democracy: An Attempt to Paraphrase the Mechanism of the Absorption of the Elites from Eva Etzioni-Halevy’s Theory in the Conceptual Apparatus of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Karolina Rutkowska
10 Leszek Nowak’s non-Marxian Historical Materialism and Pareto’s Elite Theory: Similarities and Differences
Giacomo Borbone
11 The Iron Law of Oligarchy versus the Rule of Political Competition: An Attempt at a Comparison between Robert Michels’ and Leszek Nowak’s Approaches to Power
Regina Menke
12 The Social Role of the Ceremonial: Andrzej Falkiewicz’s Conception of Culture and the Theory of the Spiritual Momentum in Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Iwo Greczko
Name index
Subject index
The volume will be of interest to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as specialists who deal with the philosophy of history and the philosophy and methodology of social sciences and political theory.