Reiman As Free and as Just as Possible

The Theory of Marxian Liberalism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-23206-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series

Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive ontothe liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis fromone of America's foremost intellectuals conceives a reviseddefinition of justice that recognizes the harm inflicted bycapitalism's hidden coercive structures.
* Maps a new frontier in moral philosophy and politicaltheory
* Distills a new concept of justice that recognizes theiniquities of capitalism
* Synthesis of elements of Marxism and Liberalism will interestreaders in both camps
* Direct and jargon-free style opens these complex ideas to awide readership

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reiman, Jeffrey

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations ix
Preface xi
1 Overview of the Argument for Marxian Liberalism 1
2 Marx and Rawls and Justice 29
2.1 Marx's Theory of Capitalism and Its Ideology 30
2.2 Rawls's Theory of Justice as Fairness 39
2.3 Rawls on Marx 52
2.4 Marx and Justice 57
2.5 Marxian Liberalism's Historical Conception of Justice61
3 The Natural Right to Liberty and the Need for a SocialContract 67
3.1 A Lockean Argument for the Right to Liberty 70
3.2 Our Rational Moral Competence 78
3.3 From Liberty to Lockean Contractarianism 88
4 The Ambivalence of Property: Expression of Liberty andThreat to Liberty 94
4.1 Locke, Nozick, and the Ambivalence of Property 96
4.2 Kant, Narveson, and the Ambivalence of Property 102
4.3 Marx and the Structural Coerciveness of Property 111
5 The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle 122
5.1 The Moral Version of the Labor Theory of Value 123
5.2 The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle 128
5.3 Finding a Just Distribution 133
5.4 Is the Difference Principle Biased? 141
5.5 Answering Narveson and Cohen on Incentives 147
6 The Marxian-Liberal Original Position 158
6.1 Property and Subjugation 160
6.2 The Limits of Property 163
6.3 The Marxian Theory of the Conditions of Liberty 168
6.4 Inside the Marxian-Liberal Original Position 172
6.5 The Difference Principle as a Historical Principle ofJustice 183
7 As Free and as Just as Possible: Capitalism for Marxists,Communism for Liberals 190
7.1 The Just State 191
7.2 Capitalism for Marxists 195
7.3 The Marxian-Liberal Ideal: Property-Owning Democracy 197
7.4 Communism for Liberals 204
Conclusion: Marx's "Liberalism," Rawls's"Labor Theory of Justice" 210
Index 221

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Reiman is the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, DC. A central figure in numerous political and philosophical debates in America, including those on abortion and criminal justice, he is the author of In Defense of Political Philosophy (1972), Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy (1990), Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice (1997), The Death Penalty: For and Against (with Louis Pojman, 1998), Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life (1999), The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, 10th ed. (with Paul Leighton, 2013), and more than a hundred articles on philosophy and criminal justice.