Norman Geras S Political Thought From Marxism To Human Rights

Author : Mark Cowling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319740485

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Norman Geras’s Political Thought from Marxism to Human Rights by Mark Cowling Pdf

This book provides a critical account of the main controversies involving Norman Geras, one of the key modern political thinkers. It moves from his youthful Trotskyism on to his book on Rosa Luxemburg, then his classic account of Marx and human nature, and his highly regarded discussion of Marx and justice. Following this, Geras tried to elaborate a Marxist theory of justice, which involved taking on-board aspects of liberalism. Next he attacked the post modernism of Laclau and Mouffe and criticised Rorty’s pragmatism, and then elaborated a contract of mutual indifference from a detailed study of the Holocaust. Lastly he wrote a book on human rights and humanitarian intervention, defending the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Cowling varies from exposition and admiration, to ideas about how Geras’s work should be interpreted, to criticism of his Trotskyism and of his support for the invasion of Iraq. The book will appeal to readers interested in Norman Geras and Marxism in particular, and social and political theory in general.

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1859842291

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The Contract of Mutual Indifference by Norman Geras Pdf

Geras focuses on the figure of the bystander - to the destruction of the Jews of Europe, as well as to more recent atrocities - to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active response at persecution and great suffering.

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy, Marxist
ISBN : 1526103869

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The Norman Geras Reader by Norman Geras Pdf

This is the first book to gather the key writings of the distinguished political theorist Norman Geras into a single volume, providing a comprehensive overview of the thinking of one of the most important Marxist philosophers in the post-war era. Among the essays included here are 'The Controversy about Marx and Justice', 'The Duty to Bring Aid', 'Primo Levi and Jean Amery: Shame' and the contentious 'Euston Manifesto', which lays down a set of central principles for the democratic left in the twenty-first century. The reader is rounded out with several posts from Geras's much-loved and widely read 'Normblog', as well as companion essays by Alan Johnson and Terry Glavin, which explore how Geras's philosophical concerns led to his more recent, trenchant critiques of the direction of left-wing politics.

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781688731

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The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg by Norman Geras Pdf

An important contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Marxism During the first decades of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg was the leader of the workers’ movement in Poland and Germany. She made a remarkable contribution to socialist theory and practice, yet her legacy remains in dispute. In this book Norman Geras interrogates and refutes the myths that have developed around her work. She was an opponent of socialist participation in the First World War and, as Geras shows, her views on socialist strategy in Russia were closer to Lenin’s than any other leader’s. Geras explores the development of Luxemburg’s critique in the period following the war and demonstrates how her thought is distinct from the social democratic or anarchist theories into which it is often subsumed. Geras brings new light to bear on one of the most misrepresented figures in radical history, illustrating her inspiring lack of complacency and her commitment to questioning those in authority on both the Right and the Left.

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786630094

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Literature of Revolution by Norman Geras Pdf

Essential essays on key Marxist writers from a leading political thinker Literature of Revolution explores the pivotal texts and topics in the Marxist tradition, drawing on the works of Marx, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Lenin, and Althusser. In close dialogue with common themes and arguments in revolutionary Marxist thought, Geras brings some of his persistent preoccupations to the fore: the relationship between Marxism and justice; the debates on political organization; and the role of revolutionary mass action and party pluralism; as well as an enthralling exploration into the literary power of Trotsky’s writing.

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0860919803

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Discourses of Extremity by Norman Geras Pdf

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0860914534

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Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind by Norman Geras Pdf

In this book, Norman Geras engages with the work of Richard Rorty to explore the paradoxes of a liberalism which rejects and determinate view of human nature. He begins by examining Rorty's thesis concerning rescuer behavior during the Holocaust. Measuring it against existing research on the subject and the testimony of rescuers themselves, Geras questions Rorty's use of their moral example as a challenge to universalist assumptions. He then considers some of the problems in Rorty's anti-essentialism: his shifting usages of 'human nature'; the paradoxical pleas for extensive forms of solidarity on the basis of parochial communitarian premises; the relationship of pragmatist notions of truth to issues of justice; and the project of democratic, would-be 'humanist' utopia grounded only on contingencies. Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind is an imagined dialogue with Rorty—influential, eloquent and unorthodox champion of a humane radical liberalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004254152

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Constructing Marxist Ethics by Anonim Pdf

Constructing Marxist Ethics offers a series of compelling essays that reassess the role of ethics and moral values in Marxist theory and philosophy.

Author : Allen E. Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039438531

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Marx and Justice by Allen E. Buchanan Pdf

Author : James Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000067917215

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Marx by James Daly Pdf

Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474472593

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Post-Marxism by Stuart Sim Pdf

This is the first source-book for this cross-disciplinary area. It takes students through a wide range of readings from philosophy, politics, and sociology, to human geography, international relations, and feminist studies. Bringing together statements from leading twentieth-century thinkers such as Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Laclau and Mouffe, and with the editor's substantial introduction, this is an ideal teaching text, inspiring debate about the future of Marxism as a cultural theory.

Author : M. Tabak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Thomas Jacobs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257383

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Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy by Thomas Jacobs Pdf

Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy revisits a question that has long fascinated socialists, progressives, democrats, Greens, and Marxists – how do left-wing forces win at politics? Thirty-five years ago, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe tackled this puzzle in ground-breaking fashion, by drawing on a signature blend of linguistics, Marxist theory, and poststructuralism that came to be known as post-Marxist Discourse Theory (PDT). This book takes up the legacy of Laclau and Mouffe, and elaborates PDT into a full-fledged theory of political strategy for the first time. It argues that post-Marxism provides the foundations for a form of discourse analysis that can explain how political strategies play out as well as why they fail or succeed. Its empirical potential to illuminate the dynamics of hegemonic struggles is demonstrated through a case study focusing on the contestation and politicization of EU trade policy in the European Parliament.

Author : J. Roth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230554832

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Genocide and Human Rights by J. Roth Pdf

Genocide is evil or nothing could be. It raises a host of questions about humanity, rights, justice, and reality, which are key areas of concern for philosophy. Strangely, however, philosophers have tended to ignore genocide. Even more problematic, philosophy and philosophers bear more responsibility for genocide than they have usually admitted. In Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide, an international group of twenty-five contemporary philosophers work to correct those deficiencies by showing how philosophy can and should respond to genocide, particularly in ways that defend human rights.