June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
29h 6m
English
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INDEX
ability 107
absence xxii, 562–4, 589–99, 689–2; determinate xix; ills 644, 660, 696; ontology of 674
absolute spirit 600
absolutism 236
abstract individualism 735
abstraction 120–43, 166, 170–9; generative mechanisms 279; illicit 635; power 349; rational 9–10; social science 293; society 324
Achilles’ Heel critique 614
action: agency 305, 370; bases of 413–16; emancipation 700; emancipatory 422; explanation 286; involuntary 552; nonreductive materialism 346; social activity 303; social forms 206; structures of 288; threshold 106
activity-dependence xvii, 202, 229, 361, 363, 365
actualism 5, 134; fallacy of xii; Marxism 274, 275; normative 423; weak 621
actualities ...
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