The Norman Geras Reader

'What's There Is There'
Herausgeber: Cohen, Ben; Garrard, Eve

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to gather the key writings of distinguished political theorist Norman Geras into a single volume, providing a comprehensive overview of the thinking of one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the post-war era. A professor in the University of Manchester's Department of Government up to his death in 2013, Geras was known for his pioneering interpretations of key texts in the Marxist canon, along with his insistence that Marxism could only be enriched by recognising the enduring value of core liberal concepts. From foundational philosophical concerns, such as the place of human nature in Marx's theory, to explicitly political ones, such as the rights and duties of the international community when faced with mass atrocities, Geras's work informed and inspired an entire generation of leftists disillusioned with the current fixations of the progressive movement. An essential resource for understanding the development of both Marxist thought and the evolutions of the left, particularly in the wake of the war in Iraq, this reader includes Geras's most important writings, among them 'The Controversy about Marx and Justice', 'The Contract of Mutual Indifference' and the 'Euston Manifesto', which set out the principles for the democratic left in the twenty-first century. The reader also contains selections from his popular Normblog and companion essays by British political theorist Alan Johnson and Canadian journalist and war correspondent Terry Glavin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781526103864
• ISBN-10: 1526103869
• Artikelnr.: 47880805

Autorenporträt

Eve Garrard is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester Ben Cohen is a New-York based writer and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Tablet, Haaretz, Commentary and other publications

Inhaltsangabe

Anthology introduction -Ben Cohen and Eve Garrard Part I Marxism and
liberalism On Geras's Marxism - Alan Johnson 1 Human Nature and Historical
Materialism 2 That Most Complex Being 3 Minimum Utopia 4 The Controversy
About Marx and Justice 5 What Does it Mean to be a Marxist? 6 The Euston
Manifesto 7 The Reductions of the Left Part II The longest hatred:
antisemitism 8 Alibi Antisemitism 9 Marxists Before the Holocaust 10 Marx
and antisemitism Part III The responsibility to protect 11 The Duty to
Bring Aid 12 Humanitarian Intervention 13 The War in Iraq 14 On Justifying
Humanitarian Intervention in Syria 15 Burying Humanitarian Intervention
Part IV Normblog: the best of Introduction - Ben Cohen and Eve Garrard A
Normblog decade Too much Holocaust Six theses on the death of Margaret
Thatcher A right denied to millions Hymning Hizbollah My Australia Why does
football matter? Fiction like green vegetables Jane Austen's kick It's his
party, you can cry if you want to Ordinary women Primo Levi and Jean Amery:
shame Fifteen great jazz albums Thinking about war To keep on keepin' on
Epilogue: reflections on the work of Norman Geras - Terry Glavin Norman
Geras: the complete bibliography Index