Dialectics and deconstruction in political economy

Robert Albritton

Palgrave Macmillan

1999

Abstract

Robert Albritton offers the most authoritative reassessment of Marxist political economy since Althusser. Original reinterpretations of thinkers including Hegel, Weber, Althusser, Derrida and Adorno cast new light on heated battles between Hegelian dialectics and deconstructivist criticism. The book makes accessible the sometimes daunting thought associated with both dialectics and deconstruction drawing upon insights from philosophy, sociology, political science and critical theory. Finding a non-essentialist way of using the immense cognitive power of dialectics - accepting a limited deconstruction but challenging further deconstructionist directions - represents a major breakthrough for political economy.

Cited authors

Derrida Jacques

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Marx Karl

Adorno Theodor

Albritton Robert