Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser's Marxism (Historical Materialism Book, 249)

‎Contents
‎Acknowledgements
‎Chapter 1. Introduction
	‎1. Concrete Analysis and Frankfurt School Critical Theory
	‎2. Methodology
	‎3. Structure of the Book
‎Chapter 2. ‘But Didn’t He Kill His Wife?’
	‎1. The Duty to Cite
	‎2. Countervailing Harms
		‎2.1. Direct Harms
		‎2.2. Indirect Harms
	‎3. External and Internal Approaches
		‎3.1. Externalism
		‎3.2. Internalism
	‎4. A Duty to Speak and to Respond
‎Chapter 3. Althusser’s Scientism
	‎1. Definition of Althusser’s Scientism
	‎2. Althusser’s (Mostly) Consistent Scientism: 1960–1980
		‎2.1. Althusser’s Scientism 1960–1965
		‎2.2. Althusser’s Scientism 1966–1972
		‎2.3. Althusser’s Scientism 1972–1980
	‎3. Althusser 1982–1987: Marxist Philosophy without Marxist Science?
		‎3.1. Althusser’s Scientism Abandoned?
		‎3.2. Internalist Explanation of the Abandonment Thesis
	‎4. An Aleatory Materialism Consistent with Marxist Science?
		‎4.1. An Alternative to the Abandonment Thesis
		‎4.2. The Explicit Endorsement of Scientism in Althusser’s Later Works
		‎4.3. Aleatory Materialism and Marxist Science: Theory for Marxism
		‎4.4. The Relation between Aleatory Materialism and Marxist Science
		‎4.5. Making Sense of Late Anti-Scientistic Statements
	‎5. Conclusion
‎Chapter 4. Historical Materialism and Concrete Analysis
	‎1. The Theoretical and Political Context for Concrete Analysis
	‎2. Althusser’s Original Formulation of Concrete Analysis
	‎3. Critique of Concrete Analysis
	‎4. Reconstructing Concrete Analysis
	‎5. Historical Materialism and Critical Theory
‎Chapter 5. Class as Concrete and Normative
	‎Introduction
	‎1. Gender Theories
		‎1.1. The Classical Theory of Gender
		‎1.2. The Conventionalist Understanding of Gender
		‎1.3. The Trait/Norm Covariance Model
	‎2. Marxian Class Theories
		‎2.1. Classical Marxist Theory
		‎2.2. Post-Marxism
	‎3. Trait/Norm Covariant Class Model
‎Chapter 6. Separating Racist Science from Racial Science
	‎1. Separating Science from Ideology
	‎2. Critical Technique Defined
	‎3. Critical Technique Applied
‎Chapter 7. Manipulation of Consent and Deliberative Democracy
	‎1. Deliberation from Procedural to Feasible
	‎2. Obstacles to Deliberation
	‎3. Overcoming Obstacles
	‎4. Insurmountable Obstacles?
		‎4.1. Ideology as Insurmountable
‎Chapter 8. Cosmopolitanism and Class Erasure
	‎1. Against a ‘Cosmopolitanism of Fear’
	‎2. Reconstruction of Althusser’s Anti-Cosmopolitan Argument
	‎3. Contemporary Cosmopolitanisms
		‎3.1. Nussbaum’s Moral Cosmopolitanism
		‎3.2. Appiah’s Cultural Cosmopolitanism
	‎4. Critique of Moral and Cultural Cosmopolitanisms
‎Works Cited
‎Index