Vanessa Christina Wills

Marx's Ethical Vision (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A central debate among scholars of Marx concerns whether Marxism has a moral content or is totally "amoral"--perhaps either because it embraces a strict economic determinism or because it nihilistically sides with the proletariat without offering any objective justification for that stance. Philosopher Vanessa Christina Wills argues that Marx does articulate an ethical perspective that is present throughout his writings, both the more obviously humanistic and philosophical early writings and his later, economic and more empirically-grounded studies such as Capital. The purposiveness of labor gives rise to a normativity already inherent in the present state of things, one that can guide us in knowing what sort of world we should build and that further, prepares us to build it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197688168
• Artikelnr.: 72256200

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Christina Wills is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. She is a founding editor of Spectre Journal, a biannual journal of Marxist theory, strategy, and analysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Ideology Critique and the Critique of Morality
Chapter 3 A Historical Materialist Account of Human Nature
Chapter 4 Alienation
Chapter 5 Radical Chains (Marx on Freedom and Determinism)
Chapter 6 Individuality
Chapter 7 "Bourgeois" Freedom and Equal Right
Chapter 8 Marx's Critiques of Rival Moral Theories
Chapter 9 "No Particular Wrong": The Abolition of Morality
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Coda: "The Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists," Yesterday and Today