Overview
- Provides the first book-length study of MacIntyre’s Marxism
- Draws conceptual links between MacIntyre’s lesser-known early works, After Virtue. and beyond
- Develops the argument that Marx’s ideas remain of great importance to MacIntyre
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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This book discusses Alasdair MacIntyre’s engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present. It begins with his early writings on Marxism and Christianity, moving through his period in the New Left and the Socialist Labour League and International Socialism in the late 1950s and 1960s. It then discusses MacIntyre’s break with Marxism by developing the brief but telling five-point critique he gives of Marxism in his 1981 volume After Virtue. Marxism, Ethics and Politics highlights MacIntyre’s continuing admiration for much in Marx’s thought, noting that his contemporary project is developed in response to what he now sees as the inadequacies of Marxism, particularly Marxist politics. It concludes by examining the place of Marxism in the contemporary MacIntyrean debate and by pointing out the contested nature of the claims about Marxism that MacIntyre makes.
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John Gregson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research interests include critical criminology and political theory, particularly Marxism and the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marxism, Ethics and Politics
Book Subtitle: The Work of Alasdair MacIntyre
Authors: John Gregson
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03371-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03370-5Published: 23 January 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47192-7Published: 08 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03371-2Published: 11 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 224
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Ethics, Political Sociology, Social Policy