Value Wars - Moral Philosophy and Humanity

Informationen zum Autor John McMurtry was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of the multi-volume Philosophy and World Problems , written for the UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, Value Wars , and The Cancer Stage of Capitalism . Klappentext The slogan 'Marxism is dead' was proclaimed almost immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Very soon after, a strange ideological inversion occurred. In place of the 'inevitable victory of the proletariat' espoused by Marx, there was the 'inevitable process of globalisation', a line now adopted by corporations, politicians and the media the world over. John McMurtry unravels the moral contradictions inherent in this 'new world order', and argues that it cannot succeed because it is based on essentially inhuman values. Connecting across a broad spectrum of issues including the Iraq and Balkan wars, the Asian and Russian meltdowns, ecological collapse, the privatisation and deregulation of public institutions, and the principles of technology, neo-classical and Marxian economics, McMurtry's compelling study lays bare the battle lines of an emerging global ethical war. Zusammenfassung A devastating critique of the global market paradigm

Product details

• Authors: John Mcmurtry, McMurtry John, John McMurty
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2002
• EAN: 9780745318899
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-1889-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures