Marx and the new individual
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Marx and the new individual
Unwin Hyman, 1990
Available at 40 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [238]-243
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this analysis of Marx's attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx's thought. The radical possiblities of individual agency in society are explored within a Maxian framework, without recourse to methodological individualism or rational choice theory and, the "Grandrisse" is used as the basis of this analysis of Marx's thoughts on the individual. By illustrating the nature of the connections between collective existence and individual experience, Ian Forbes aims to provide a major contribution towards the revitalization of socialist thought.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Individualism, political theory and the impact of Marx: humanism, theoretical anti-humanism and the individual
- individualism and social theory
- Marx and modes of individualism
- human nature, autonomy and history. Part 2 The individual and Marx's theory of change: sources of social change
- human nature and history
- thinking about human nature
- social change and individuality. Part 3 Pre-capitalist societies and the absence of individualism and individuality: feudalism and the individual
- change in circumstance and nature
- the feudal individual. Part 4 Individuality in capitalist society: the transition from feudalism to capitalism
- history, nature and early capitalism
- the placement of Marx's critique
- development - human nature and capitalism
- production
- social relations
- capitalism, individualism and individuality
- bourgeois individuality
- individuality and change through capitalism. Part 5 The individual under communism: method in communism
- communism as the end of classes
- the character of the communist individual
- exchange, production and the universal individual
- on being an individual
- society for the communist individual.
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