Marx on Emancipation and Socialist Goals (eBook)

Retrieving Marx for the Future

Robert X. Ware (Autor)

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2018
XIX, 256 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-97716-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book responds to the need for a retrieval and renewal of the work of Karl Marx through close philosophical analysis of his publications, manuscripts, and letters - especially those relevant to politics, morality, and the future. This philosophical study stands out because of its two principal features. First, it reviews and develops ideas about the future, though often only briefly discussed by Marx and his commentators, drawn from Marx's work. Second, it focuses on collective matters that are critical for Marx's ideas but rarely investigated and still problematic.

Part One introduces Marx with a discussion of emancipation and freedom in community. It then discusses the importance of retrieval and the methodology for promoting it. Part Two is about misunderstandings of Marx's ideas about productive development, division of labour, and organisations. Part Three discusses nations, morality, and democracy, all of which Marx supported. Part Four takes up Marx's significant, but misunderstood, ideas about the future and his relation to the anarchists.

Robert X. Ware is a Canadian philosopher, retired from The University of Calgary, Canada, and residing in Ottawa. He did post-doctoral work in linguistics at MIT and has visited universities and institutes in Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Belgium, Italy, India, and China (1980s), where he has taught and lectured on many subjects including Marxism.

Inhalt

I. Goals and Methodology1. Emancipation and Retrievals2. Methodological Beginnings 3. Coquetting with Dialectics II. Social Relations and Organisations4. Fettered Forces and New Found Freedom5. Marx on the Division of Labour6. Marx on Class Consciousness and OrganisationIII. Nations, Morality, and Democracy7. Nationalism and Internationalism8. Marx’s Morality for All9. Emancipatory DemocracyIV. Reflecting on Transitions and Futures10. Marx on State and Society in the Future 11. Marx on Some Phases of Communism 12. Two Projects of Socialism 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
• Reihe/Serie: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 256 p. 2 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: emancipation democracy • Future Society • Marx • post-capitalism • Reading Marx • Socialist transition
• ISBN-10: 3-319-97716-4 / 3319977164
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-97716-4 / 9783319977164