Marx And Human Nature

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784782375

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Marx and Human Nature by Norman Geras Pdf

“Marx did not reject the idea of a human nature. He was right not to do so.” That is the conclusion of this passionate and polemical new work by Norman Geras. In it, he places the sixth of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach under rigorous scrutiny. He argues that this ambiguous statement—widely cited as evidence that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845—must be read in the context of Marx’s work as a whole. His later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfills both explanatory and normative functions. The belief that Marx’s historical materialism entailed a denial of the conception of human nature is, Geras writes, “an old fixation, which the Althusserian influence in this matter has fed upon … Because this fixation still exists and is misguided, it is still necessary to challenge it.” One hundred years after Marx’s death, this timely essay—combining the strengths of analytical philosophy and classical Marxism—rediscovers a central part of his heritage.

Author : M. Tabak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137043146

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Dialectics of Human Nature in Marx's Philosophy by M. Tabak Pdf

A scholarly exploration of Marx's thought without any favorable or critical ideological agendas, this book opposes the compartmentalization of Marx's thought into various competing doctrines, such as historical materialism, dialectical materialism, and different forms of economic determinism.

Author : Sean Sayers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134653836

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Marxism and Human Nature by Sean Sayers Pdf

Is there such a thing as human nature? Here Sean Sayers defends the controversial theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. He gives an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach and engages with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy.

Author : W Peter Archibald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349091843

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Marx and the Missing Link: “Human Nature” by W Peter Archibald Pdf

Author : Isidor Wallimann
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3227599

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Estrangement by Isidor Wallimann Pdf

Author : John Fox
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137507977

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Marx, the Body, and Human Nature by John Fox Pdf

Marx, the Body, and Human Nature shows that the body and the broader material world played a far more significant role in Marx's theory than previously recognised. It provides a fresh 'take' on Marx's theory, revealing a much more open, dynamic and unstable conception of the body, the self, and human nature.

Author : P. Burkett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780312299651

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Marx and Nature by P. Burkett Pdf

With Marx and Nature , Paul Burkett reconstructs Marx's approach to nature, society, and environmental crisis. While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx also insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions, including the natural condition of human bodily existence. Marx's value analysis places him squarely in the camp of the growing number of ecological theorists questioning the ability of monetary and market-based calculations to adequately represent the natural conditions of human production and development.

Author : Alfred Schmidt
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781682012

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The Concept Of Nature In Marx by Alfred Schmidt Pdf

In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity’s relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are ‘part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation from Nature is itself part of their nature’. In Marx, industry and science are the mediation between historical man and external nature, leading either to reconciliation or mutual annihilation. Schmidt explores this tension between man and nature in Marx and shows how his understanding of nature is reflected in the work of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch.

Author : Justin Holt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443811873

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Karl Marx’s Philosophy of Nature, Action and Society by Justin Holt Pdf

This work analyses Marx's philosophy of nature and shows how it is the basis for his practical philosophy. Previous analysis of Marx's philosophy of nature has considered humans as only natural beings and social beings. But, Marx analyzed humans' relationship to the natural world and to themselves as natural, social, and material. This material feature of human action can server as a basis for social critique and as the foundation for a practical analysis. The first chapter of this book analyzes Marx's philosophy of nature from his early to late works and argues that humans are natural begins that use nature to develop new capacities. This consideration is central in Marx's critiques of Hegel and Feuerbach. The second chapter discusses Marx's material critique of social forms and discusses why the distinction between material action and social action is a key component of Marx critique of capitalism. This chapter also discusses industrial history, ideology, wages, justice, and valorization. The third and final chapter builds on Marx's materialist analysis to develop a standard of practical action that takes human's material activity as its basis. This chapter also discusses classical historical materialist claims, liberal ethical theories, and a practical philosophic consideration of socialism.

Author : Erich 1900-1980 Fromm
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013947398

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Marx's Concept of Man by Erich 1900-1980 Fromm Pdf

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Author : Peter Lamb,Douglas Burnham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350026872

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The First Marx by Peter Lamb,Douglas Burnham Pdf

Marx's early work is well known and widely available, but it usually interpreted as at best a kind of stepping-stone to the Marx of Capital. This book offers something completely different; it reconstructs, from his first writings spanning from 1835 to 1846, a coherent and well-rounded political philosophy. The influence of Engels upon the development of that philosophy is discussed. This, it is argued, was a philosophy that Marx could have presented had he put the ideas together, as he hinted was his eventual intention. Had he done so, this first Marx would have made an even greater contribution to social and political philosophy than is generally acknowledged today. Arguments regarding revolutionary change, contradiction and other topics such as production, alienation and emancipation contribute to a powerful analysis in the early works of Marx, one which is worthy of discussion on its own merits. This analysis is distributed among a range of books, papers, letters and other writings, and is gathered here for the first time. Marx's work of the period was driven by his commitment to emancipation. Moreover, as is discussed in the conclusion to this book, his emancipatory philosophy continues to have resonance today. This new book presents Marx in a unique, new light and will be indispensable reading for all studying and following his work.

Author : John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583670118

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MarxÕs Ecology by John Bellamy Foster Pdf

Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature. Marx's Ecology covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley. By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.

Author : Alison M. Jaggar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742579941

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Feminist Politics and Human Nature (Philosophy and Society) by Alison M. Jaggar Pdf

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Author : Kohei Saito
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583676400

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Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism by Kohei Saito Pdf

"Delving into Karl Marx's central works as well as his natural scientific notebooks, published only recently and still being translated, [the author] argues that Karl Marx actually saw the environment crisis embedded in captialism. [The book] shows us that Marx has given us more than we once thought, that we can now come closer to finishing Marx's critique, and to building a sustainable ecosocialist world."--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Joseph Bien
Publisher : B.R. Gruner Publishing Company
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015010826553

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History, Revolution, and Human Nature by Joseph Bien Pdf