Part 1 Individualism, political theory and the impact of Marx: humanism, theoretical anti-humanism and the individual; individualism and social theory; Marx and modes of individualism; human nature, autonomy and history. Part 2 The individual and Marx's theory of change: sources of social change; human nature and history; thinking about human nature; social change and individuality. Part 3 Pre-capitalist societies and the absence of individualism and individuality: feudalism and the individual; change in circumstance and nature; the feudal individual. Part 4 Individuality in capitalist society: the transition from feudalism to capitalism; history, nature and early capitalism; the placement of Marx's critique; development - human nature and capitalism; production; social relations; capitalism, individualism and individuality; bourgeois individuality; individuality and change through capitalism. Part 5 The individual under communism: method in communism; communism as the end of classes; the character of the communist individual; exchange, production and the universal individual; on being an individual; society for the communist individual.
