8 Ergebnisse.

Ethical Marxism and its Radical Critics argues that Marx's conception of human essence is the foundation for an ethic of liberation which permeates his social theory. It testifies to his significant debt to Greek philosophy and culture. Wilde examines how his humanistic ethic was developed by Marcuse and Fromm, and how it has been rejected by Habermas and Gorz. He also explores reservations expressed from feminist and ecological standpoints. T...

Keine Beschreibung.

The first introduction to Global Solidarity Exploring the theory and practice of resisting and overcoming social divisions, /Global Solidarity/adopts a radical humanist perspective to the possibility of building a solidaristic global community. It offers a novel path into recent debates about our cosmopolitan future, bringing together various theoretical and socio-political aspects of globalization, such as global justice, cosmopolitan democr...

Solidarity' has been a mobilising word since the mid-19th century, conjuring images of united action in pursuit of social justice. This title explores this concept and raises the question of whether solidarity among strangers is a meaningful aspiration in our globalising age.

Offers insights into how progress might be made towards a socialist ethical community.

This book argues that Fromm's humanistic ethics provides a framework for the analysis of alienation in affluent societies and his exploration of the social forces capable of challenging that alienation. It examines his work on authoritarianism, the experience of work, the struggle against patriarchy, the dangers of consumerism and the manipulation of needs, the urgent need to revive democracy, and the challenge of the emerging "one world." Nev...

The 500th anniversary of the first publication of Thomas More's Utopia invites a reappraisal of its significance, not just as an ironic and playful fiction, but as a serious contribution to social and political thought. More delivers a searing critique of the injustices of his time and imagines a radical alternative based on common ownership and representative government. In this new interpretation, Wilde surveys the context from which Utopia ...

Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity argues that Fromm's humanistic ethics provides a framework for the analysis of alienation in affluent societies and his exploration of the social forces capable of challenging that alienation. It examines his work on authoritarianism, the experience of work, the struggle against patriarchy, the dangers of consumerism and the manipulation of needs, the urgent need to revive democracy, and the challenge o...