Marxism and Human Nature.

By: Sayers, SeanMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought SerPublisher: London : Routledge, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203200414Subject(s): PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Marxism and Human NatureDDC classification: 335.4 LOC classification: HX36 -- .S385 1998ebOnline resources: Click to View
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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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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