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Superstructures and Essences: Never Trust an Analogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

T. O'Hagan
T. O'Hagan
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University of East Anglia
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Philosophy , Volume 57 , Issue 220 , January 1982 , pp. 246 - 250
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1980

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References

1 G. A. Cohen, ‘On Some Criticisms of Historical Materialism‘, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Vol. 44 (1970).

2 Marx, K., Capital, I, trans. Moore, S. and Aveling, E. (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1970), 179–80Google Scholar; alternative translation by E. and C. Paul (London: Everyman, 1970), 172; German text: Marx-Engels, , Werke, 23 (Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1956), 194–195.Google Scholar

3 , H. B.Acton, The Illusion of the Epoch (London: Cohen & West, 1955), 146.Google Scholar

4 Ibid., 147.

5 In Aristotle's sense of ‘material cause‘. See Aristotle, , Physics, trans. Wickstead, P. W. and Cornford, F. M. (London: Heinemann, Loeb Classical Library, 1957), 194b24ff.Google Scholar

6 Marx, K., Capital, III (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1967), 793Google Scholar (Werke, 25, 801): translation corrected.