Marxism, Ethics and Politics: The Work of Alasdair Macintyre - Couverture rigide

Gregson, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030033708 ISBN 13 : 9783030033705

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

Synopsis

This book discusses Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present. It begins with his early writings on Marxism and Christianity, moving through his period in the New Left and the Socialist Labour League and International Socialism in the late 1950s and 1960s. It then discusses MacIntyre's break with Marxism by developing the brief but telling five-point critique he gives of Marxism in his 1981 volume After Virtue. Marxism, Ethics and Politics highlights MacIntyre's continuing admiration for much in Marx's thought, noting that his contemporary project is developed in response to what he now sees as the inadequacies of Marxism, particularly Marxist politics. It concludes by examining the place of Marxism in the contemporary MacIntyrean debate and by pointing out the contested nature of the claims about Marxism that MacIntyre makes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Gregson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research interests include critical criminology and political theory, particularly Marxism and the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030033708
• ISBN 13: 9783030033705
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 239
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