 | Constance Coiner - 1995 - 313 σελίδες
...invites readers to collaborate in a discourse of resistance. "Men make their own history," says Marx, "but not of their own free will; not under circumstances...given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted." And so it is with women. Le Sueur and Olsen exemplified the "audacity within... | |
 | Mica Nava, Alan O'Shea - 1996 - 298 σελίδες
...be scrutinised more closely in due course. Secondly, it offers a gloss on Marx's famous dictum that 'people make their own history but not of their own free will: not under conditions they themselves have chosen but under the given and inherited circumstances with which they... | |
 | Mark Reinhardt - 1997 - 260 σελίδες
...was published too late for consideration here. 82. Marx's own famous words cannot be surpassed: "Men make their own history, but not of their own free...given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted. The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of... | |
 | Stephen E. Hanson - 1997 - 280 σελίδες
...historical forces shaping one's social milieu had first to be understood and exposed. As Marx put it, "Men make their own history, but not of their own free will, not under circumstances that they themselves have chosen."17 Any attempt to "make history" without an understanding of the... | |
 | Jeffrey Escoffier - 1998 - 304 σελίδες
...lesson embodied in the second half of Marx's famous formulation: ". .. but [they make their own history] not of their own free will; not under circumstances...given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted. The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of... | |
 | S. H. Rigby - 1998 - 336 σελίδες
...'history', society is 'nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends'. In society, as in a game, people make their own history, 'but not of their own...circumstances they themselves have chosen, but under given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted'.100 Players have roles within... | |
 | Fred Halliday - 1999 - 426 σελίδες
...volumes written on the subject in modern social theory, it is hard to beat Marx's laconic insight: Men make their own history, but not of their own free...given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted." This is as true for international relations as it is for social and political... | |
 | Harvie Ferguson - 2000 - 236 σελίδες
...freedom and autonomy. Marx, in a famous passage, thus expresses the central paradox of Modernity. "Men make their own history, but not of their own free...given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted" (Marx 1973,143). Modernity is a continuing project rather than a specific and... | |
 | Betty T. Bennett, Stuart Curran - 2000 - 722 σελίδες
...those like Charles of Anjou, "heroic tyrants," who seem to anticipate Marx's famous dictum that "Men make their own history, but not of their own free...given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted."34 Mary Shelley might also have been receptive to the application of Marx's words... | |
 | Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Jane Rendall - 2000 - 324 σελίδες
...that those groups and individuals can, in varying degrees, be agents of change. In Marx's phrase: 'Men make their own history, but not of their own free...given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted.'39 However, the weight to be given to each of the terms here - circumstances and... | |
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Men make their own history, but not of their own free will; not under circumstances they themselves have chosen but under the given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted. 
