Marxism and Ethics
Freedom, Desire, and Revolution
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2012
249 pages
978-1-4384-3992-1 (ISBN)
Description
Accessible introduction to key thinkers of Marxist theory and the debate on the nature of Marxist ethics.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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978-1-4384-3992-1 (9781438439921)
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Paul Blackledge is Professor of Political Theory at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of Perry Anderson, Marxism, and the New Left and Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History, and the coeditor (with Graeme Kirkpatrick) of Historical Materialism and Social Evolution.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Marxism's Ethical Deficit
1. Ethics as a Problem for Marxism
2. Marx and the Moral Point of View
3. Ethics and Politics in Second and Third International Marxism
4. Western Marxism's Tragic Vision: Socialist Ethics in a Non-Revolutionary Age
5. Alasdair MacIntyre's Contribution to an Ethical Marxism
Conclusion: From Ethics to Politics
References
Index
Introduction: Marxism's Ethical Deficit
1. Ethics as a Problem for Marxism
2. Marx and the Moral Point of View
3. Ethics and Politics in Second and Third International Marxism
4. Western Marxism's Tragic Vision: Socialist Ethics in a Non-Revolutionary Age
5. Alasdair MacIntyre's Contribution to an Ethical Marxism
Conclusion: From Ethics to Politics
References
Index
