In the twenty-first century, new debates over globalization, 'market society' and the crises of capitalism are leading to a resurgence of interest in Marx's ideas about politics, economics, history and human nature.
This collection of articles brings together the latest work of some of the world's leading Marxist philosophers, along with that of a new generation of young researchers. Based upon work presented at meetings of the recently founded and fast-growing Marx and Philosophy Society, it offers a unique snapshot of the best current scholarship on the philosophical aspects and implications of Marx's thought.
Contributors discuss Marx's moral and political philosophy, his critique of orthodox economics, and his relation to more recent trends in social theory. Although many diverse perspectives are represented, all share a commitment to careful historical scholarship and philosophical clarity and rigour.
This book will be invaluable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in philosophy, political theory, and the social sciences.
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; A.Chitty& M.McIvor
PART I: MARX AND HIS PREDECESSORS
'The Entire Mystery': Marx's Understanding of Hegel; J.McCarney
Karl Marx's Philosophical Modernism: Post-Kantian Foundations of Historical Materialism; M.McIvor
Marx, the European Tradition, and the Philosophic Radicals; S.Meikle
PART II: MARX AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Marx's Theory of Democracy in his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of the State; G.Daremas
Marx and Conservatism; A.Collier
Forms of Right, Forms of Value: The Unity of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and Marx's Capital; R.Fine
PART III: MARX ON LABOUR, MONEY AND CAPITAL
Species-Being and Capital; A.Chitty
Labour in Modern Industrial Society; S.Sayers
The Concept of Money; C.Arthur
Value, Money, and Capital in Hegel and Marx; P.Murray
Abstraction and Productivity: Reflections on Formal Causality; W.Roberts
PART IV: 20TH CENTURY MARXISM
The Subject and Social Theory: Marx and Lukács on Hegel; M.Postone
Multiple Returns: Althusser on Dialectics; J.Grant
The Rationality of Analytical Marxism; R.Veneziani
PART V: MARX AND FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Marxism and Feminism: Living with your 'Ex'; T.Carver
After Postmodernism: Feminism and Marxism Revisited; G.Howie
Index
ANDREW CHITTY is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex with interests in political philosophy, ethics, and the history of political thought. He has published widely on Hegel and Marx.
MARTIN MCIVOR is a long-standing editor of the journal Historical Materialism. He took his PhD at the London School of Economics, where he taught history of political thought. He currently works as a trade union researcher.
Description
In the twenty-first century, new debates over globalization, 'market society' and the crises of capitalism are leading to a resurgence of interest in Marx's ideas about politics, economics, history and human nature.
This collection of articles brings together the latest work of some of the world's leading Marxist philosophers, along with that of a new generation of young researchers. Based upon work presented at meetings of the recently founded and fast-growing Marx and Philosophy Society, it offers a unique snapshot of the best current scholarship on the philosophical aspects and implications of Marx's thought.
Contributors discuss Marx's moral and political philosophy, his critique of orthodox economics, and his relation to more recent trends in social theory. Although many diverse perspectives are represented, all share a commitment to careful historical scholarship and philosophical clarity and rigour.
This book will be invaluable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in philosophy, political theory, and the social sciences.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; A.Chitty& M.McIvor
PART I: MARX AND HIS PREDECESSORS
'The Entire Mystery': Marx's Understanding of Hegel; J.McCarney
Karl Marx's Philosophical Modernism: Post-Kantian Foundations of Historical Materialism; M.McIvor
Marx, the European Tradition, and the Philosophic Radicals; S.Meikle
PART II: MARX AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Marx's Theory of Democracy in his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of the State; G.Daremas
Marx and Conservatism; A.Collier
Forms of Right, Forms of Value: The Unity of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and Marx's Capital; R.Fine
PART III: MARX ON LABOUR, MONEY AND CAPITAL
Species-Being and Capital; A.Chitty
Labour in Modern Industrial Society; S.Sayers
The Concept of Money; C.Arthur
Value, Money, and Capital in Hegel and Marx; P.Murray
Abstraction and Productivity: Reflections on Formal Causality; W.Roberts
PART IV: 20TH CENTURY MARXISM
The Subject and Social Theory: Marx and Lukács on Hegel; M.Postone
Multiple Returns: Althusser on Dialectics; J.Grant
The Rationality of Analytical Marxism; R.Veneziani
PART V: MARX AND FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Marxism and Feminism: Living with your 'Ex'; T.Carver
After Postmodernism: Feminism and Marxism Revisited; G.Howie
Index
Authors
ANDREW CHITTY is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex with interests in political philosophy, ethics, and the history of political thought. He has published widely on Hegel and Marx.
MARTIN MCIVOR is a long-standing editor of the journal Historical Materialism. He took his PhD at the London School of Economics, where he taught history of political thought. He currently works as a trade union researcher.
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