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Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Table of Contents 5 Editor’s Introduction 7 I. ANALYZING THE DIMENSIONS OF THE HISTORICAL PROCESS 13 Historical materialism and the visions of social development. A study of transformations of Marxian periodization formula 15 The role of consensus in social conflicts 45 Objective versus mentalist conceptions of social class: some second thoughts 59 II. INDIVIDUAL/CIVILIZATIONAL/TRANSFORMATIONAL APPROACH 69 Work and instrumental action 71 Rationality and the levels of organization of society 97 The social division of labour 109 III. GLOBALISTIC/CIVILIZATIONAL/ADAPTIVE APPROACH 125 Adaptation, learning, praxis. Some applications of the adaptative conceptual apparatus 127 Adaptation and competition. A contribution to the classification of adaptive relationships 135 On adaptive and functional dependencies. An attempt at a categorial approach 153 The structure and development of the society’s modes of spiritual production 163 IV. GLOBALISTIC/CONFLICT/TRANSFORMATIONAL APPROACH 189 The macro- and micro-conflict structure of the information- and knowledge society 191 Towards a non-hegelian conception of the “new class” 207 An idealizational model of capitalist

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Author

Leszek Nowak

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004457058

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25