Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: For a Multilinear Science of History -- 1. History with Social Ontology -- 1.1. Praxis and Spatio-Temporal Totalisation -- 1.2. Historical Being, Historicity and Categories -- 1.3. From World-History to Spatio-Temporal Complexity -- Epilogue -- 2. Theory, Models and Explanation -- 2.1. Abstraction and Method -- 2.2. Modes of Production and Spatio-Temporal Models -- 2.3. Historiographical Explanation -- Epilogue -- 3. In Marx's Archive -- 3.1. Documentary Critique and Critique of Ideology -- 3.2. The Imperial Archive and the Limits to Interpretation -- 3.3. Beyond Marx's Archive -- Epilogue -- 4. Narrative as Presentation -- 4.1. Presentation, Chronotopes, Narrative -- 4.2. Poetics of Theory -- 4.3. Emplotment as Politics -- Epilogue -- Conclusions: Towards a Politics of Spatio-Temporal Totalisation -- Bibliography -- Index.

Through a discussion with current perspectives in philosophy of history - especially with a critical approach to Paul Ricœur's work - and a rigorous reading of Marx's oeuvre this book proposes an interpretation of this author's concept and method of historical knowledge. In this sense the examination of his concepts of social space and social time serve to highlight the possibilities of the best Marx in terms of the explanation of the dynamics of complex multilinear development of human societies and of capitalism in particular.

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