Constructing Marxist ethics : : critique, normativity, praxis / / edited by Michael J. Thompson ; contributors, Dan Albanese [and thirteen others].

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 74
• TeilnehmendeR: Thompson, Michael J., 1973-; Albanese, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 74.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Does Marxism possess an ethical impulse? Is there a moral foundation that underpins the Marxist critique of capitalism and the vision for social progress? The essays collected in Constructing Marxist Ethics: Critique, Normativity, Praxis argue that there is such an ethical grounding for Marxist theo...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Michael J. Thompson
• Introduction / Michael J. Thompson
• The Marxian Roots of Radical Humanism / Lawrence Wilde
• The Idea of the “Struggle for Recognition” in the Ethical Thought of the Young Marx and its Relevance Today / Tony Burns
• Political Economy and the Normative: Marx on Human Nature and the Quest for Dignity / Lauren Langman and Dan Albanese
• Art as Ethics: The Aesthetic Self / Ian Fraser
• Reclaiming Marx: Principles of Justice as a Critical Foundation in Moral Realism / Wadood Y. Hamad
• Marx as a Critic of Liberalism / Sean Sayers
• Marx, Modernity and Human Rights / Bob Cannon
• Last of the Schoolmen: Natural Law and Social Justice in Karl Marx / George E. McCarthy
• Philosophical Foundations for a Marxian Ethics / Michael J. Thompson
• Political Economy with Perfectionist Premises: Three Types of Criticism in Marx / Christoph Henning
• G.A. Cohen and the Limits of Analytical Marxism / Paul Blackledge
• On the Ethical Contours of Thin Aristotelian Marxism / Ruth Groff
• The Ethical Implications of Marx’s Concept of a Post-Capitalist Society / Peter Hudis
• Index / Michael J. Thompson.