After Marx

Klappentext Marx raised more questions than he! or anyone else! could ever reasonably hope to answer. Zusammenfassung Marx raised more questions than he! or anyone else! could ever reasonably hope to answer. To raise anew some of these questions and to approach them in the critical spirit of Marx's own thinking! are the common themes running through and uniting these essays. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Contributors; Editor's introduction Terence Ball and James Farr; Part I. History and Revolution: 1. Marxism, revolution and rationality William H. Shaw; 2. Historical materialism and economic backwardness Jon Elster; 3. Producing change: work, technology and power in Marx's theory of history Richard W. Miller; 4. Marxism's central puzzle Philippe Van Parijs; 5. Marxian functionalism James Noble; Part II. Morals and Politics: 6. Alien politics: a Marxian perspective on citizenship and democracy Paul Thomas; 7. Democracy: utopian and scientific C. B. Macpherson; 8. Marx's moral realism: eudaimonism and moral progress Alan Gilbert; 9. Exploitation, class and property relations John E. Roemer; Part III. Methodology and Criticism: 10. Marx and positivism James Farr; 11. Marxian science and positivist politics Terence Ball; 12. Marxism as method Terrell Carver; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Terence Ball, Terence Farr Ball, James Farr
• Assisted by: Terence Ball (Editor), James Farr (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.1984
• EAN: 9780521276610
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27661-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education