1. Introduction, Marxist Ethics Within Western Political Theory PART I: MARXIST ETHICS OF REPUBLICAN LIBERAL DEMOCRACY 2. Roots of Marxist Republican Democratic Ethics 3. Historical Unfolding of Marxist Republican democratic Ethics PART II: MARXIST COMMUNITARIAN AND LIBERAL ETHICS OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND PROPERTY 4. Roots of Communitarian and Liberal Marxist Property and Justice Theory 5. Historical Unfolding of Communitarian Marxist Property and Justice Theory 6. Conclusion, Republican Marxism Within Western Liberal Ethics
Norman Arthur Fischer is retired Professor of Philosophy at Kent
State University, USA. He is the author of Continuity and Change in
Marxism (1982) and Economy and Self: Philosophy and Economics from
the Mercantilists to Marx (1979) as well as articles on political,
legal, and environmental philosophy, and philosophy of art and
literature.
In this original and provocative work, Norman Fischer unfolds 'the
lost history of republican Marxism,' arguing that not only is
Marxism compatible with liberalism as democratic, Marxism demands
respect for negative liberties it also advances liberalism.
Fischer's pointed defense of 'liberal republican Marxism' sets
Marxist Ethics Within Western Political Theory apart it is an
eye-opener.' Patrick Murray, Creighton University, USA, author of
Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988)
'At a time of cultural and political fragmentation, the search for
a political philosophy that is both critical and holds to
universalist norms, has become elusive. This book, however,
provides us with an important corrective to these current academic
trends. Fischer's philosophical excavation shows that Marx's ideas
are linked to a deep tradition in western political philosophy that
emphasized the common good and social justice, a tradition to which
we, too, are heirs.' Michael J. Thompson, William Paterson
University, USA
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