Marxism's Ethical Thinkers

In Marxism's uneasy relationship with ethics a small number of prominent theorists considered it imperative to highlight the moral principles implicit in Marx's social theory and to develop these ethics in the light of changing conditions. They developed a humanistic Marxism in stark contrast to the crude 'end justifies the means' approach of Stalinism. This collection brings together analyses by leading scholars on those thinkers who made significant contributions to ethical thinking within the Marxist tradition - Kautsky, Bloch, Fromm, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Macpherson and Heller.

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TONY BURNS Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Politics, Nottingham Trent University IAN FRASER Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Nottingham Trent University VINCENT GEOGHEGAN Professor of Political Theory, Queen's University Belfast NEIL MAYCROFT Lecturer, Department of History of Art, Lincoln Campus, De Montfort University SIMON TORMEY Principal Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Nottingham JULES TOWNSHEND Reader in Politics, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.Wilde Karl Kautsky: Ethics and Marxism; T.Burns Ernst Bloch; Postsecular Thoughts; V.Geoghegan Against Idolatry: The Humanist Ethics of Erich Fromm; L.Wilde Herbert Marcuse: Essence and Existence; I.Fraser Henri Lefebvre: Alienation and the Ethics of Bodily Reappropriation; N.Maycroft C.B. Macpherson: Capitalism, Human Nature, and Contemporary Democratic Theory; J.Townshend Agnes Heller: 'Radical Universalism' after the 'Grant Narrative'; S.Tormey