None So Fit to Break the Chains - Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation

Dan Swain revisits Karl Marx 's conception of ethics and provides a compelling interpretation fit for the 21st century.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Note on References

Introduction
1 Prometheus Plus Spartacus
2 From Freedom to Self-Emancipation
3 Historical Materialism and Self-Emancipation
4 Communism, Utopia and Vision
5 Exploitation, Justice and Freedom
6 Alienation, Human Nature, Human Good
7 Denouncing the Abyss
8 Self-Emancipation and Revolutionary Practice

Bibliography
Index

About the author

Dan Swain, Ph.D. (2015), Essex, is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Alienation: An Introduction to Marx's Theory.

Summary

Dan Swain revisits Karl Marx 's conception of ethics and provides a compelling interpretation fit for the 21st century.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Swain, Swain Dan
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2020
• EAN: 9781642593358
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-335-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Political Ideologies, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, Political ideologies and movements, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -