Marxism, Ethics and Politics

The Work of Alasdair MacIntyre
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-47192-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

This book discusses Alasdair MacIntyre’s engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present. It begins with his early writings on Marxism and Christianity, moving through his period in the New Left and the Socialist Labour League and International Socialism in the late 1950s and 1960s. It then discusses MacIntyre’s break with Marxism by developing the brief but telling five-point critique he gives of Marxism in his 1981 volume After Virtue. Marxism, Ethics and Politics highlights MacIntyre’s continuing admiration for much in Marx’s thought, noting that his contemporary project is developed in response to what he now sees as the inadequacies of Marxism, particularly Marxist politics. It concludes by examining the place of Marxism in the contemporary MacIntyrean debate and by pointing out the contested nature of the claims about Marxism that MacIntyre makes.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregson, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Marxism and Christianity.- 3. The New Left.- 4. The Revolutionary Marxists: The Socialist Labour League and International Socialism.- 5. The Critique of Marxism in After Virtue.- 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

John Gregson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research interests include critical criminology and political theory, particularly Marxism and the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre.