Dialectical method and the critical political economy of culture

TripleC

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 439-456

  Nixon, Brice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Critical political economy; Critical theory; Culture; Dialectical method; Historical materialism; Marx; Smythe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861724243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v10i2.371     Document Type: Article

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