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Community and Individuality: The Theory of “Individuation”

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Here we go back to the account of individuation begun in the previous chapter.

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  1. To the contrary, whereas the latter are implied in Émile Durkheim’s analysis of The Division of Labour in Society (New York: Free Press, 1964), Marx claimed the opposite.

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  2. P. 510. See also Carol Gould, Marx’s Social Ontology (Boston: MIT Press, 1978) p. 119, on this point.

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  3. See T. Parsons and E. A. Shils (eds), Toward a General Theory of Action (New York: Harper and Row (Torchbook), 1962) p. 82.

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Archibald, W.P. (1989). Community and Individuality: The Theory of “Individuation”. In: Marx and the Missing Link: “Human Nature”. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09184-3_3

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