Beschreibung:
Theory and History is primarily a critique of Karl Marx, his materialism, and his prediction of the inevitability of socialism. Marx attributes the creation of tools and machines, as well as the economic structure of society, to undefined "material productive forces." Mises rejects this materialistic view; he points out that tools and machines are actually created by individuals acting on the basis of non-materialistic ideas.
Introduction; Judgements of Value; Knowledge and Value; The Quest for Absolute Values; The Negation of Valuation; Determinism and its Critics; Materialism; Dialectical Materialism; Philosophy of History; The Concept of Historical Individuality; Historicism; The Challenge of Scientism; Psychology and Thymology; Meaning and Use of the Study of History; The Epistemological Features of History; Philosophical Interpretations of History; Present-Day Trends and the Future.