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Marx and subsequent Marxists have often been chided for paying insufficient attention to purely moral and ethical questions. Constructing Marxist Ethics Critique, Normativity, Praxis brings together leading Marxist thinkers from various fields to lay these charges to rest.
Does Marxism posses an ethical impulse? Is there a moral foundation that underpins the Marxist critique of capitalism and the vision for socialism? These essays, each from different vantage points, respond affirmatively to these questions and each examine what kind of values should be at the heart of the Marxian enterprise.
Contributors are: Dan Albanese, Paul Blackledge, Bob Cannon, Tony Burns, Ian Fraser, Ruth Groff, Wadood Hamad, Christoph Henning, Peter Hudis, Lauren Langman, George E. McCarthy, Sean Sayers, Michael J. Thompson, and Lawrence Wilde
Does Marxism posses an ethical impulse? Is there a moral foundation that underpins the Marxist critique of capitalism and the vision for socialism? These essays, each from different vantage points, respond affirmatively to these questions and each examine what kind of values should be at the heart of the Marxian enterprise.
Contributors are: Dan Albanese, Paul Blackledge, Bob Cannon, Tony Burns, Ian Fraser, Ruth Groff, Wadood Hamad, Christoph Henning, Peter Hudis, Lauren Langman, George E. McCarthy, Sean Sayers, Michael J. Thompson, and Lawrence Wilde
Price: $30.00
Pages: 361
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Publication Date:
01 March 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9781608466412
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Social and political philosophy
Michael J. Thompson, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science, William Paterson University, USA
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART I: MARXIST HUMANISM AND ETHICAL MODELS
1. The Marxian Roots of Radical Humanism
Lawrence Wilde
2. The Idea of the “Struggle for Recognition” in the Ethical Thought of the Young Marx and its Relevance Today
Tony Burns
3. Political Economy and the Normative: Marx on Human Nature and the Quest for Dignity
Lauren Langman and Dan Albanese
4. Art as Ethics: The Aesthetic Self
Ian Fraser
PART II: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RIGHTS AND JUSTICE
5. Reclaiming Marx: Principles of Justice as a Critical Foundation in Moral Realism
Wadood Y. Hamad
6. Marx as a Critic of Liberalism
Sean Sayers
7. Marx, Modernity and Human Rights
Bob Cannon
8. Last of the Schoolmen: Natural Law and Social Justice in Karl Marx
George E. McCarthy
PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF MARXIST ETHICS
9. Philosophical Foundations for a Marxian Ethics
Michael J. Thompson
10. Political Economy with Perfectionist Premises: Three Types of Criticism in Marx
Christoph Henning
11. G.A. Cohen and the Limits of Analytical Marxism
Paul Blackledge
12. On the Ethical Contours of Thin Aristotelian Marxism
Ruth Groff
13. The Ethical Implications of Marx’s Concept of a Post-Capitalist Society
Peter Hudis
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART I: MARXIST HUMANISM AND ETHICAL MODELS
1. The Marxian Roots of Radical Humanism
Lawrence Wilde
2. The Idea of the “Struggle for Recognition” in the Ethical Thought of the Young Marx and its Relevance Today
Tony Burns
3. Political Economy and the Normative: Marx on Human Nature and the Quest for Dignity
Lauren Langman and Dan Albanese
4. Art as Ethics: The Aesthetic Self
Ian Fraser
PART II: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RIGHTS AND JUSTICE
5. Reclaiming Marx: Principles of Justice as a Critical Foundation in Moral Realism
Wadood Y. Hamad
6. Marx as a Critic of Liberalism
Sean Sayers
7. Marx, Modernity and Human Rights
Bob Cannon
8. Last of the Schoolmen: Natural Law and Social Justice in Karl Marx
George E. McCarthy
PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF MARXIST ETHICS
9. Philosophical Foundations for a Marxian Ethics
Michael J. Thompson
10. Political Economy with Perfectionist Premises: Three Types of Criticism in Marx
Christoph Henning
11. G.A. Cohen and the Limits of Analytical Marxism
Paul Blackledge
12. On the Ethical Contours of Thin Aristotelian Marxism
Ruth Groff
13. The Ethical Implications of Marx’s Concept of a Post-Capitalist Society
Peter Hudis
Index