Author: George Novack
Publisher: Pathfinder
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780873483094
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The relationship between humanism -- the rational, secular expression of the ideals of the democratic revolution -- and scientific socialism.
Author: George Edward Novack
Publisher: New York : Pathfinder Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781412825726
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Raymond Aron called Merleau-Ponty "the most influential French philosopher of his generation." First published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two ideological armed camps. For Merleau-Ponty, the central question was: could Communism transcend its violence and intentions? The value of a society is the value it places upon man's relation to man, Merleau-Ponty examines not only the Moscow trials of the late thirties but also Koestler's re-creation of them. He argues that violence in general in the Communist world can be understood only in the context of revolutionary activism. He demonstrates that it is pointless to ask whether Communism respects the rules of liberal society; it is evident that Communism does not. In post-Communist Europe, when many are addressing similar questions throughout the world, Merleau-Ponty's discourse is of prime importance; it stands as a major and provocative contribution to limits on the use of violence. The argument is placed in its current context in a brilliant new introduction by John O'Neill. His remarks extend the line of argument originally developed by the great French political philosopher. This is a major contribution to political theory and philosophy. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, until his death in 1961, held the Chair of Philosophy at the Collge de France. He was recognized as both an authentic and profoundly original disciple of Husserlian phenomenology, and a major figure in the development of existential thought. John O'Neill, who has prepared this accurate and well-written translation, is professor of sociology at York University, Ontario, Canada. Educated at the London School of Economics, Notre Dame, and Stanford, he is translator of Jean Hyppolite's Studies on Marx and Hegel and author of Perception, Expression and History.
Author: Christoph Jünke
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9004502564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite being a major theorist of post-war Marxism in the German-speaking world, Leo Kofler remains largely unknown outside of it. This volume introduces his work and life and presents six of Kofler’s essays in English for the first time.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780851241067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781859843093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Citing a lifelong engagement with Marxism, critic and writer Marshall Berman reveals the movement's positive points and suggests a new beginning for Marxism may be on the horizon with its recent 150th anniversary attention.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Nottingham : Spokesman Books
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-11-11
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9004210423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book argues that the Cuban Revolution warrants a closer look as a model of socialist human development. A re-reading of the Cuban Revolution from this angle engages unresolved issues in the theory of socialist humanism and the notion of human development popularized by the United Nations Development Programme (i.e., predicated on capitalism). UNDP economists and other agencies of international cooperation for development give a human face to a capitalist development process that is anything but humane. Socialism in Cuba has taken a very different form (socialist human development) than it did elsewhere in the twentieth century. The Cuban Revolution's unique characteristics enabled it to survive adverse conditions - a 'near-perfect storm' - that still threaten its evolution.