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Althusser, Marx a neempiristická teorie dějin
Althusser, Marx, and a Non-empiristic Theory of History

Author(s): Petr Kužel
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, History of Philosophy, History of ideas
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Fakulta humanitních studií
Keywords: empiricism; historical epistemology; Louis Althusser

Summary/Abstract: This contribution outlines the basic principles of Althusser’s and Marx’s non-empiristic theory of history. Based on Gaston Bachelard’s historical epistemology, the author criticises methodological foundations of empiricism and a conception of science (including the historical science) that is based on it. The study presents a characterisation of Marx’s and Althusser’s theoretical principles of structural determination and pre-determination, which could be used in positively overcoming empiristic tendencies in the study of history and society.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 191-208
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Czech