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Marx and Aristotle George E. McCarthy

Marx and Aristotle By George E. McCarthy

Marx and Aristotle by George E. McCarthy


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'The work is an interesting and unusual collection of writings on a subject about which little has been written.' |s RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW

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Marx and Aristotle: Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity by George E. McCarthy

As the Iron Curtain was shattered recently in Eastern Europe, revealing a diversity of cultural traditions lost during the recent past, so too the curtain which has hidden Karl Marx's writings for many years seems to be crumbling. Its disappearance reveals a rich complexity of traditions and visions that underlay his social, political, and economic theory. Marx and Aristotle brings together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of recent scholarship, most written especially for this volume, to look further behind this historical veil by examining the influence of classical Greek philosophy, especially the thought of Aristotle and Epicurus, on Marx.

About George E. McCarthy

George E. McCarthy, Associate Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College, is the author of Marx and the Ancients: Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-Century Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1990).

Table of Contents

Visions and vertigo - viewing modernity from the Acropolis, George E. McCarthy. Part 1 Hegel and the Greeks - remembrance of things past: Karl Marx and the influence of Greek antiquity on 18th century Germany, Horst Mews; the Polis transformed - Aristotle's Politics and Marx's critique of Hegel's Philosophy of right, David Depew; the origins of the dialectic - Hegel's approriation of ancient skeptics, Stephen Smith. Part 2 Marx and Epicurus - materialism, ethics, and Greek physics: the Greek accent of the Marxian matrix, Michael DeGolyer; Marx and Epicurus - post-Aristotelian philosophy of nature and Marx's dissertation, George E. McCarthy; Karl Marx and Greek philosophy - some explorations in the themes of intellectual accommodations and moral hypocrisy, Laurence Baronovitch. Part 3 Marx and Aristotle - human capabilities and social structures: nature, function, and capability - Aristotle on political distribution, Martha Nussbaum; Aristotle, Kant and the ethics of the young Marx, Philip Kain; households, markets and firms, William James Booth. Part 4 Marx and Aristotle - morality and Praxis: Marx and Aristotle - a kind of consequentialism, Richard Miller; Marx's moral realism - Eudaimonism and moral progress, Alan Gilbert; Praxis and morality - Marx's Species being and Aristotle's political animal, Joseph Margolis; Marxian subjectivity, idealism and Greek philosophy, Thomas Rockmore.

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NLS9780847677146
9780847677146
0847677141
Marx and Aristotle: Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity by George E. McCarthy
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Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
1992-04-23
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