Ethical Marxism
The Categorical Imperative of Liberation
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2013
480 pages
978-0-8126-9861-9 (ISBN)
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This book aims to reinvigorate the Marxist project and the role it might play in illuminating the way beyond capitalism. Though political economy and scientific investigation are needed for pure Marxism, Martin's argument is that the extent to which these elements are needed cannot be determined within the conversations of political economy and other investigations into causal mechanisms. What has not been done, and what this book does, is to argue for the possibility of a rethought Marxism that takes ethics as its core, displacing political economy and "scientific" investigation.
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05/2008
Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co
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Bill Martin is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. He is a musician, cyclist, and chess enthusiast whose numerous previous books include The Radical Project: Sartrean Investigations (2001), Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork (2002), and he is co-author of Marxism and the Call of the Future (2005).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Not Simply One Adjective among Others
- PART 1: Marxism and teh Language of Good and Evil, or, Theodicy and the Iron Law of Wages
- PART 2: Unforgivable Napalm: Imperialism Is the Ethical Question of Our Time
- PART 3: Sites, Ramifications: Animals, Places, Mao
- 1. The "Animal Question
- 2. Agriculture and the Question of Place (an Appreciation of Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson in the Context of Marxism)
- 3. Maoism and Beyond: THe Next Synthesis
- Conclusion: Ongoingness: The Ethics of Liberation and the Liberation of the Ethical
- Bibliography
- Index
