Blackledge Marxism and Ethics

Freedom, Desire, and Revolution
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3992-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Radical Social and Political Theory

Accessible introduction to key thinkers of Marxist theory and the debate on the nature of Marxist ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blackledge, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.