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78Identity and CommunityJournal of Social Philosophy 30 (1): 147-160. 1999.The concepts of identity and community have recently been the subject of a good deal of debate in social philosophy, much of it focused on the ideas of writers like MacIntyre, Taylor, Walzer. These philosophers are often referred to as `communitarians', though they do not constitute a united school and none of them identifies himself as such. Nevertheless, there are good reasons 1 for grouping them together, for they share some important elements of common ground. In their different ways, each d…Read more
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64Has Marxism a future, now that communism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe and is in crisis everywhere else? It is often said that Marxism is discredited and refuted by these events: they signify the triumph of capitalism and the free market, the `end of history'. At the other extreme, some Marxists in the West would like to believe that history has not yet begun. For them, socialism is still a distant dream. The old regimes of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe had nothing to do with tru…Read more
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106Alienation as a critical conceptInternational Critical Thought 1 (3): 287-304. 2011.This paper discusses Marx’s concept of alienated (or estranged) labour, focusing mainly on his account in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. This concept is frequently taken to be a moral notion based on a concept of universal human nature. This view is criticized and it is argued that the concept of alienation should rather be interpreted in the light of Hegelian historical ideas. In Hegel, alienation is not a purely negative phenomenon; it is a necessary stage of human develop…Read more
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52Forces of Production and Relations of Production in Socialist SocietyRadical Philosophy 24 (24): 19-26. 1980.It seems evident that class differences and class struggle continue to exist in socialist societies; that is to say, in societies like the Soviet Union and China, which have undergone socialist revolutions and in which private property in the means of production has been largely abolished. I shall not attempt to prove this proposition here; rather it will form my starting point. For my purpose in this paper is to show how the phenomenon of class in socialist society can be understood and interpr…Read more
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109Marxism and the Dialectical Method: A Critique of G.A. CohenRadical Philosophy 36 (36): 4-13. 1984.The dialectical method, Marx Insisted, was at the basis of his account of society. In 1858, in a letter to Engels, he wrote: In the method of treatment the fact that by mere accident I again glanced through Hegel's Logic has been of great service to me... If there should ever be the time for such work again, I would greatly like to make accessible to the ordinary human intelligence, in two or three printer's sheets, what is rational in the method which Hegel discovered.1 But he never did find th…Read more
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10Review of GWF Hegel, Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy - Translators Knox,TM, Miller,AV (review)Philosophical Books 27 (3): 146-148. 1986.
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Epistemology and RelativismAnnalen der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie - Societas Hegeliana 7 164-168. 1990.
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Robert Pippin, Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-ConsciousnessRadical Philosophy 54 52. 1990.
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24The appearance of this Korean translation of Reality and Reason gives me the opportunity to clarify the purpose of the book and to indicate some of the areas in which my views have developed and altered in the years since it was first written. My primary aim in the book is to explain and defend the realist and materialist view that there is an objective material world of which we can have knowledge. My argument, I have now come to realise, takes a Kantian `transcendental' form. I do not prove th…Read more
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19Review of Paul O'Grady, Relativism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (1): 123-124. 2004.
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21Le pas d'acier was conceived in 1925 at the height of enthusiasm for the Russian Revolution both in Russia and abroad. Prokofiev intended the ballet to `show the new life that had come to the Soviet Union, and primarily the construction effort.' He quotes Yakulov as saying that the ballet would portray `the uplifting influence of organised labour.' (Prokofiev 1991, 278). In its theme and its staging it is a celebration of industry and labour.
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15Communism and nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friederich list Roman Szporluk , ix + 307 pp., £24.00 (review)History of European Ideas 12 (4): 552-554. 1990.
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Review of John Rawls, Lectures on the history of moral philosophy (review)Radical Philosophy (110): 48-49. 2001.
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Review of I. Gollobin, Dialectical Materialism - Its Laws, Categories and Practice (review)Science and Society 52 (3): 347-350. 1988.
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5Hegel, Marx and Dialectic: A Debate Vol. ReprintGregg Revivals. 1994.This work contains a rigorous account of the philosophy of dialectic in Hegel and Marxism, which takes the form of a debate in which each author develops his own account and criticism of the other.
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131The concept of alienation is one of the most important and fruitful legacies of Hegel's social philosophy. It is strange therefore that Hegel's own account is widely rejected, not least by writers in those traditions which have taken up and developed the concept in the most influential ways: Marxism and existentialism.