Utopianism and Marxism

Vincent Geoghegan

ISBN 10: 3039101374 / ISBN 13: 9783039101375

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2008, 2008

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Neuware -This is a reissue of an influential text that was first published in 1987, to which the author has added an introduction reflecting on the work twenty years after publication. The grounding assumption of the book is that an element of utopianism is a necessity in any political thinking, and that a self-conscious utopianism can generate a richer level of theory and practice. The text then follows the chequered career of utopianism in the Marxist tradition, arguing that Marxism has been unable to do without a utopian dimension but for various reasons has often resisted acknowledging this fact. It examines the origins of the Marxist critique of utopianism, and the various ways, either covertly or overtly, in which the utopian was reinserted into the tradition. It looks at the utopian socialist predecessors of Marxism, the ambiguous critique of the utopian developed by Marx and Engels, the complex debate over utopianism in the Second International, the authoritarian socialism that emerged in the Soviet bloc, and the consciously utopian thought of Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Bahro, and André Gorz. Throughout, the book seeks to combine rigorous scholarship with a commitment to a utopian frame of mind. 194 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Utopianism and Marxism
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2008
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3039101374
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783039101375
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 220 L x 150 H x 11 P (en millimètres) 220 millimètres de largeur par 150 millimètres de hauteur par 11 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 275 grammes

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This is a reissue of an influential text that was first published in 1987, to which the author has added an introduction reflecting on the work twenty years after publication. The grounding assumption of the book is that an element of utopianism is a necessity in any political thinking, and that a self-conscious utopianism can generate a richer level of theory and practice. The text then follows the chequered career of utopianism in the Marxist tradition, arguing that Marxism has been unable to do without a utopian dimension but for various reasons has often resisted acknowledging this fact. It examines the origins of the Marxist critique of utopianism, and the various ways, either covertly or overtly, in which the utopian was reinserted into the tradition. It looks at the utopian socialist predecessors of Marxism, the ambiguous critique of the utopian developed by Marx and Engels, the complex debate over utopianism in the Second International, the authoritarian socialism that emerged in the Soviet bloc, and the consciously utopian thought of Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Bahro, and André Gorz. Throughout, the book seeks to combine rigorous scholarship with a commitment to a utopian frame of mind.

À propos de l?auteur

The Author : Vincent Geoghegan is Professor of Political Theory at Queen's University, Belfast. Besides Utopianism and Marxism he is also the author of Reason and Eros : The Social Theory of Herbert Marcuse (1981) and Ernst Bloch (1996). He is currently working on a book on interwar British religious radicals.