Discourses of Extremity: Radical Ethics and Post-Marxist Extravangences
Autor Norman Gerasen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 1990
Discourses in Extremity first discusses the moral dimension of problems such as famine, injustice and tyranny, examining the balance of Marxism's strengths and weaknesses here by comparison with libertarian and liberal discourses. In a powerful new essay, Geras then exposes inadequacies in the socialist discussion of justifiable means of revolutionary change, suggesting as a remedy the need to learn from an alternative tradition of thought about human conflict. Geras engages both with classic statements of liberalism and socialism from Locke to Trotsky and with more recent argument by Steven Lukes, Robert Nozick, Peter Singer and Michael Walzer.
The second part of the volume enters a debate—over the status of Marxism and so-called 'post-Marxism'—that has aroused widespread interest. In a painstaking critique of ideas of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Geras rebuts their account of the Marxist tradition and the discourse-based perspective they would have displace it, criticizing the arbitrariness and excess within their own discourse.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780860919803
ISBN-10: 0860919803
Pagini: 171
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: VERSO
ISBN-10: 0860919803
Pagini: 171
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: VERSO
Notă biografică
Norman Geras (1943-2013) was a political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Manchester. His books include The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg; Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend; The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy After the Holocaust; and Crimes Against Humanity: Birth of a Concept. From 2003 onwards he also wrote at normblog.typepad.com.