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Taking inspiration from David McLellan's impressive body of work, the contributors engage directly with the relationship between Marx, ideology and religion in order to further scholarly debate and discussion on these three major themes of contemporary domestic and international politics.
List of contents
Introduction 1. McLellan, Marx, and Method 2. McLellan's Marx: Interpreting Thought, Changing Life 3. The Concept of Alienation and the Development of Marx's Thought 4. David McLellan and Continuity in Marx 5. Marx's confrontation with free market dogma: the latent moral argument in Capital 6.Why Marxist Humanism is Wrong 7. Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Bourgeois Right 8. Simone Weil 9. Marx and Atheism 10. Ideology, Ideologies and Ideologues 11. Replies and Concluding Remarks
About the author
David Bates is Principal Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the Director of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Politics and International Relations. His academic interests are focused primarily in the area of contemporary radical political thought.
Iain MacKenzie is Senior Lecturer in Politics and the Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent, UK. His research is situated within the critical tradition of modern European thought.
Sean Sayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent, UK. He has written extensively on topics of Hegelian and Marxist philosophy and in the areas of social philosophy, ethics, theory of knowledge, metaphysics and logic. He has also written on Freud and psychoanalysis and is currently working on issues in aesthetics.
Summary
Taking inspiration from David McLellan's impressive body of work, the contributors engage directly with the relationship between Marx, ideology and religion in order to further scholarly debate and discussion on these three major themes of contemporary domestic and international politics.
