Marx and Aristotle Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity

by McCarthy, George E.

• ISBN13: 9780847677146
• ISBN10: 0847677141
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-04-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

As the Iron Curtain was shattered recently in Eastern Europe, revealing a diversity of cultural traditions lost during the recent past, so too the curtain which has hidden Karl Marx's writings for many years seems to be crumbling. Its disappearance reveals a rich complexity of traditions and visions that underlay his social, political, and economic theory. Marx and Aristotle brings together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of recent scholarship, most written especially for this volume, to look further behind this historical veil by examining the influence of classical Greek philosophy, especially the thought of Aristotle and Epicurus, on Marx.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Marx's Vision: a poem
Introduction: Visions and Vertigo: Viewing Modernity from the Acropolis	p. 1
Hegel and the Greeks: Remembrance of Things Past
Karl Marx and the Influence of Greek Antiquity on Eighteenth-century German Thought	p. 19
The Polis Transfigured: Aristotle's Politics and Marx's Critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"	p. 37
The Origins of the Dialectic: Hegel's Appropriation of the Ancient Skeptics	p. 75
Marx and Epicurus: Materialism, Ethics, and Greek Physics
The Greek Accent of the Marxian Matrix	p. 107
Karl Marx and Greek Philosophy: Some Explorations into the Themes of Intellectual Accommodation and Moral Hypocrisy	p. 155
Marx and Aristotle: Human Capabilities and Social Structures
Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political Distribution	p. 175
Aristotle, Kant, and the Ethics of the Young Marx	p. 213
Households, Markets, and Firms	p. 243
Marx and Aristotle: Morality and Praxis
Marx and Aristotle: A Kind of Consequentialism	p. 275
Marx's Moral Realism: Eudaimonism and Moral Progress	p. 303
Praxis and Meaning: Marx's Species Being and Aristotle's Political Animal	p. 329
Marxian Subjectivity, Idealism, and Greek Philosophy	p. 357
About the Contributors	p. 377
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