Marxism and the Methodologies of History keyword-bagehot ” Liberal-individualist views of human

” Liberal-individualist views of human rights and advocates of animal rights tend to think of individuals

attainable by subservience to the British Constitution

Bernal’s The Social Function of Science remains a classic analysis of the way in which wider social relations may determine the boundaries of both scientific understanding and practice

or by class

Gellner was passionate in his defence of reason against every for of relativism

Marxism and the Methodologies of History keyword-bagehot ” Liberal-individualist views of humanThis work ranges across five areas of debate that have remained largely unconnected until now: epistemology, with special reference to philosophy of science; Marxist theory; philosophy of history; modern historiography; and substantive Marxist interpretations of the past. Its purpose is to clarify the nature, and explanatory competence of historical materialism. What are the philosophical premises of historical materialism? Can any theory of history