George E McCarthy

Marx and Social Justice

Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

In Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx's theory of social justice in his early and later writings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9789004311954
• ISBN-10: 9004311955
• Artikelnr.: 48702676

Autorenporträt

George E. McCarthy is Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. (1972) in philosophy from Boston College and an M.A. and Ph.D. (1979) in sociology from the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research. He has been a research fellow at the universities of Frankfurt/Main, Munich, and Kassel, Germany. He is the author of a number of works, including Marx and the Ancients: Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-Century Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1990) and Classical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece (SUNY Press, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Ethical Archaeology of Justice in Marx
Dialectic between the Ancients and the Moderns: Natural Law and Natural
Rights
1 Natural Law and Natural Rights in Locke: Indifference and Incoherence of
Liberalism
 Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature and War
 Richard Hooker and the Laws of Nature and Ecclesiastical Polity
 Locke on Natural Rights and Natural Law
 Ethics and Structure in Natural Law
 Natural Law Limits to Natural Rights in the Original State of Nature
 Eclipse of Natural Law and Social Justice in the Second State of Nature
 Irrelevance of Natural Law, Incoherence of Liberalism, and the Return to
Hobbes
2 Justice Beyond Liberalism: Natural Law and the Ethical Community in Hegel
 Early Theological Writings and Dreams of Classical Antiquity in Hegel
 Hegel’s Natural Law and Critique of Liberalism and Natural Rights
 Social Ethics and Integration of Natural Law and Natural Rights
 Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Law, and the State as Objective Spirit
 Formation of the Ethical Life in the Family, Civil Society, and the State
 Marx’s Critique of Hegel and the Revival of Classical Democracy in Spinoza
and Rousseau
Ethics, Virtue, and Natural Law in Marx
3 Civil and Legal Justice: Integrating Natural Rights and Natural Law
 Religious Prejudice, Judaism, and Civil Rights
 Natural Rights as Ideology and Alienation
 Transition of Politics from Pure Ideology to Human Rights and Emancipation
 Critique of Liberal Democracy and Contradictions between Economic and
Political Rights
 Marx’s Theory of Emancipation and Human Rights
 Natural Rights of Free Press and Universal Suffrage
4 Workplace Justice: Ethics, Virtue, and Human Freedom
 Alienation and the Virtue of Work and Self-Determination
 Work as Productive Life and Creative Beauty
 Ethics, Human Needs, and Natural Law
 Virtue and Late Medieval Thomistic Natural Law
5 Ecological Justice: Historical Materialism and the Dialectic of Nature
and Society
 Alienation of Production, Labour, and Nature
 Dialectic of Nature and the Alienation of Consciousness
 Natural Science as the Objectification and Social Praxis of Species Being
 Science as Objectivity and Alienation
 Social Metabolism, Contradictions, and Ecological Crises
 Social Justice and the Natural Laws of Ethics and Ecology
Structures of Democracy, Economy, and Social Justice in Marx
6 Distributive Justice: Justice of Consumption, Economic Redistribution,
and Social Reciprocity
 Labour, Nature, and Society in the Gotha Program
 Equality, Fair Distribution, and the Public Expenses of Production
 Distribution, Fairness, and the Means of Social Consumption
 Socialism, Self-Realisation, and Human Need
 Critique of Reformist and Vulgar Socialism – Happiness without Meaning
7 Political Justice: Ethics and the Good Life of Democratic Socialism
 Franco-Prussian War and the Formation of the Paris Commune of 1871
 Dismantling the Old State and Rise of Political Democracy in the Commune
 Organisation of Labour and Economic Democracy
 ‘Declaration to the French People’ and the Social Programmes of the
Commune
 Marx, Lincoln, and the Human Emancipation from Racial and Wage Slavery
8 Economic Justice: Ethics, Production, and the Critique of Chrematistics
and Political Economy
 Commodities, Exchange, and the Labour Theory of Value
 Labour Power, Surplus Value, and the Alienation of Chrematistic Production
 Natural Law of Contradictions, Crises, and Capital
 Natural Law of Justice and Natural Law of Value
Bibliography
Index