Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 07:45:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Philip Goldstein <pgold-AT-strauss.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: materialism, method


Donna Jones,
       I was sorry to see that Vernon Venable's account of historical 
materialism excludes cultural analyses. Since that 1946 work, a number of 
Marxist theorists, including Lukacs, Gramsci, and Althusser, have 
acquired a importance because they make culture, ideology, and hegemony 
essential components of social historical analyses. The new term 
"historical formation" emphasizes the importance of cultural traditions, 
ideological hegemony, for Marxist theory. 
Philip Goldstein
Associate Professor of English and Philosophy
University of Delaware (Parallel)



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