Marx’ Critique of Science and Positivism

I: 18th- and 19th-century German Philosophy: Epistemology and Metaphysics.- One Science and Critique: The Evolution of the German Perspective from Kant to Marx.- I. Introduction.- II. Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason.- III. Hegel and the Radicalization of the Critical Method.- IV. Marx’ Turn From Positivism to Science as Critique in Political Economy.- V. The Critical Method in German Idealism and Political Economy.- Two Time and Critique: The Temporal Dimensions of the Dialectical Method.- I. Introduction.- II. Logic, Ontology, and Time.- III. Temporality and Science in Hegel’s Logic: Dialectics and the Concept.- IV. Realization of the Concept and the Concrete Totality.- V. Temporality and History in Marx’ Later Political Economy.- Three Materialism and Critique: The Schelling and Feuerbach Responses to Hegel.- I. Introduction.- II. Schelling’s Rejection of Hegel’s Theory of Objectivity and Identity.- III. Feuerbach’s Rejection of Hegel’s Synthesis of Consciousness and Reality.- IV. The Empiricism of Schilling and Feuerbach and the Ambivalence Of Marx’ New Materialism.- V. The Philosophical Foundations of Marx’ Materialism.- II: Epistemology and Method in Marx’ Later Works.- Four Rethinking Method: Reflective Reconstruction of History.- I. Introduction.- II. Epistemological Grounding of Political Economy.- III. The Hegelian Notion of Begrijf and Political Economy: History and Logic.- IV. The Dialectic and the Logic of Capital.- V. Science, Political Economy, and Ontology.- VI. From Simple Commodity Production to Capitalist Production.- VII. Marx’ Theory of Value and Economic Crisis Theory.- Five Against Epistemology and Foundationalism: From the Theory of Political Economy to Social Practice.- I. Introduction.- II. David Hume and the Crisis of Modern Science.- III. Hegel and Marx: From the Negation of Science to the Negation of Epistemology.- IV. Marx’ Theory of Truth.- V. Marx’ Dilemma of Objective Validity and Truth as Social Praxis.- VI. Science as Social Practice and the Critique of Privileged Representations.- VII. The Duhem-Quine Thesis and the Beginnings of Scientific Conventionalism.- VIII. Social Practice and the Post-Empiricist Philosophy of Science: Rorty and Feyerabend.- III: Meta-Critique and Political Economy: Marx’ Legacy.- Six Epistemology and Political Economy: From Philosophy to Social Theory.- I. Introduction.- II. Ideology, Consciousness, and the Sociology of Knowledge.- III. Historical Materialism as Social Epistemology.- IV. Marx, Habermas, and the Reflective Reconstruction of the Species.- V. Social Ethics and the Meta-Theory of Political Economy.- Notes.