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Marxism and Human Nature.
Title:
Marxism and Human Nature.
Author:
Sayers, Sean.
ISBN:
9780203200414
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Series:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Contents:
Cover -- MARXISM AND HUMAN NATURE -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Work and human nature -- 1 Introduction: human nature as a historical phenomenon -- 2 Two concepts of human fulfilment -- 3 The need to work -- 4 The role of leisure -- 5 Alienation and economic development -- PART II Values and progress -- 6 The actual and the rational -- 7 Analytical Marxism and morality -- 8 Moral values and progress -- 9 Marxism and human nature -- Appendix: Gorz on work and liberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Is there such a thing as human nature? Here Sean Sayers defends the controversial theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. He gives an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach and engages with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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