After Marx

Erscheinungsjahr 1984
ISBN: 978-0-521-25702-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

These twelve original essays are 'after' Marx in several senses. The first and most obvious is the purely chronological sense: They are written one hundred years after Marx's death. The authors are therefore able to see more clearly what Marx did not or could not see and to see more clearly that which he foresaw only dimly. The second sense in which they are after Marx is political: In this century virtually all revolutionaries call themselves Marxists and purport to apply Marx's precepts to political practice. Armed with their different interpretations of a nineteenth-century theory, they have altered - and continue to reshape - the political contours of the twentieth century. Marx raised more questions than he, or anyone else, could ever reasonably hope to answer. To raise anew some of these questions and to approach them in the critical spirit of Marx's own thinking, are the common themes running through and uniting these essays.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ball, Terence

Farr, James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Contributors; Editor's introduction Terence Ball and James Farr; Part I. History and Revolution: 1. Marxism, revolution and rationality William H. Shaw; 2. Historical materialism and economic backwardness Jon Elster; 3. Producing change: work, technology and power in Marx's theory of history Richard W. Miller; 4. Marxism's central puzzle Philippe Van Parijs; 5. Marxian functionalism James Noble; Part II. Morals and Politics: 6. Alien politics: a Marxian perspective on citizenship and democracy Paul Thomas; 7. Democracy: utopian and scientific C. B. Macpherson; 8. Marx's moral realism: eudaimonism and moral progress Alan Gilbert; 9. Exploitation, class and property relations John E. Roemer; Part III. Methodology and Criticism: 10. Marx and positivism James Farr; 11. Marxian science and positivist politics Terence Ball; 12. Marxism as method Terrell Carver; Indexes.