Marxist Ethics within Western Political Theory A Dialogue with Republicanism, Communitarianism, and Liberalism

by Fischer, Norman Arthur

• ISBN13: 9781137456434
• ISBN10: 1137456434
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

As widely applied as Marxist theory is today, there remain a host of key western thinkers whose texts are rarely scrutinized through a Marxist lens. In this philosophical analysis of Marx's never-before translated German notes on Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Lewis Henry Morgan, Norman Fischer points to a strain of Marxist ethics that may only be understood in the context of the great works of Western political theory and philosophy—particularly those that emphasize the republican value of public spiritedness, the communitarian value of solidarity, and the liberal values of liberty and equality.

Author Biography

Norman Arthur Fischer is retired Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Continuity and Change in Marxism (1982) and Economy and Self: Philosophy and Economics from the Mercantilists to Marx (1979) as well as articles on political, legal, and environmental philosophy, and philosophy of art and literature.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction, Marxist Ethics Within Western Political Theory
PART I: MARXIST ETHICS OF REPUBLICAN LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
2.Roots of Marxist Republican Democratic Ethics
3.Historical Unfolding of Marxist Republican democratic Ethics
PART II: MARXIST COMMUNITARIAN AND LIBERAL ETHICS OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND PROPERTY
4.Roots of Communitarian and Liberal Marxist Property and Justice Theory
5.Historical Unfolding of Communitarian Marxist Property and Justice Theory
6.Conclusion, Republican Marxism Within Western Liberal Ethics