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The authors of this book reconstruct the philosophical, methodological and theoretical assumptions of non-Marxian historical materialism, a theory of historical process authored by Leszek Nowak (1943-2009), a co-founder of the Poznań School of Methodology. In the first part of the book, philosophical assumptions of this theory are compared with the concepts of Robert Nozick, Immanuel Wallerstein, André Gunder Frank and analytical Marxism. In the second part, non-Marxian historical materialism is compared with the concepts of Eva Etzioni-Halevy, Andrzej Falkiewicz, Robert Michels, Vilfredo Pareto, Theda Skocpol and Karl August Wittfogel.

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Krzysztof Brzechczyn is (titular) Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He has published five books and numerous articles in Chinese, English, German, Italian, Polish, and Romanian. His fields of interest are: philosophy of history, philosophy of social sciences, political and social philosophy, and theory of history.

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