Thinking Towards Humanity CB

Themes from Norman Geras
Herausgeber: de Wijze, Stephen; Gerrard, Eve

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How should we respond to the inhumanity that suffused the twentieth Century and continues in the present one? Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left? Questions such as these are treated in this, the first scholarly book to combine academic and blogging approaches to some of the major political issues of the day. It does this by focusing on the work of Norman Geras - Marxist, political philosopher and blogger - and developing the central themes of his work such as crimes against humanity, the Holocaust, Marxism, and the means/ends problem in politics. It contains contributions by famous political philosophers such as Michael Walzer, Hillel Steiner and David McLennan, and bloggers and journalists such as David Aaronovitch, Nick Cohen and Ophelia Benson. The book contains a unique response by Geras in which he draws together the various themes it covers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080876
• ISBN-10: 0719080878
• Artikelnr.: 34744461

Autorenporträt

Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester Eve Garrard is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Preface Introduction 1. Michael Walzer What is Left
internationalism? 2. David McLellan The Marxism of Norman Geras 3. Blogging
interlude (i): Nick Cohen Professor Geras and Blogger Norm 4. Philip
Spencer socialism or barbarism - Marxism and the Holocaust 5. Blogging
interlude (ii): Ophelia Benson What is it like to be a blogger? 6. Alan
Johnson Aurum de stercore: antitotalitarianism in the thought of Primo Levi
7. Laurence Thomas evil and the norms of society 8. Eve Garrard The case
against forgiveness 9. Blogging interlude (iii): Damian Counsell A fine
site 10. Jon Pike Geras on means and ends: the case for a prefigurative
constraint 11. Stephen de Wijze Resistance beyond the moral boundary 12.
Blogging interlude (iv): David Aaronovitch Democracy first 13. Gideon
Calder Geras on context and indifference 14. Shane O'Neill Humanism and
social hope 15. Hillel Steiner Evaluation and the quantification of freedom
16. Shalom Lappin This green and pleasant land: Britain and the Jews 17.
Blogging interlude (v): Ian Holliday Cricket: the best-loved game 18.
Norman Geras responses