Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism : selected writings 1953-1974 / / edited and with an introduction by Paul Blackledge & Neil Davidson.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series, v. 19
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); MacIntyre, Alasdair C.
• TeilnehmendeR: Blackledge, Paul, 1967-; Davidson, Neil, 1957-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; 19.
• Physical Description: lxiv, 443 p.

Table of Contents

Extracts from Marxism : an interpretation -- Marxist tracts -- On not misrepresenting philosophy -- The algebra of the revolution -- Notes from the moral wilderness -- Dr. Marx and Dr. Zhivago -- Marcuse, Marxism, and the Monolith -- The straw man of the age -- The 'New Left' -- What is Marxist theory for? -- From Macdonald to Gaitskell -- Communism and British intellectuals -- Freedom and revolution -- Breaking the chains of reason -- Is a neutralist foreign policy possible? -- The man who answered the Irish question -- Culture and revolution -- Marxists and Christians -- Rejoinder to left reformism -- Congo, Katanga, and the UNO -- Sartre as a social theorist -- The sleepwalking society : Britain in the sixties -- Open letter to a right-wing young socialist -- The new capitalism and the British working class -- C. Wright Mills -- Going into Europe -- Prediction and politics -- True voice -- Trotsky in exile -- Labour policy and capitalist planning -- Marx -- The socialism of R.H. Tawney -- Marxist mask and romantic face : Lukacs on Thomas Mann -- Pascal and Marx : on Lucien Goldmann's hidden god -- Recent political thought -- Herbert Marcuse -- How not to write about Stalin -- How to write about Lenin and how not to -- The strange death of social democratic England -- In place of Harold Wilson? -- Marxism of the will -- Mr. Wilson's pragmatism -- Tell me where you stand on Kronstadt -- Irish mythologies -- Sunningdale : a 'colonial' solution -- Irish conficts and British illusions -- Epilogue. 1953, 1968, 1995 : three perspectives.