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Robert Pippin, Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-ConsciousnessRadical Philosophy 54 52. 1990.
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251Why Work? Marx and Human NatureScience and Society 69 (4). 2005.Why work? Most people say that they work only as a means to earn a living. This is also implied by the hedonist account of human nature which underlies utilitarianism and classical economics. It is argued in this paper that Marx’s concept of alienation involves a more satisfactory theory of human nature which is rooted in Hegel’s philosophy. According to this, we are productive beings and work is potentially a fulfilling activity. The fact that it is not experienced as such is shown to be at the…Read more
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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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20Review 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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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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6Hegel, 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.
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27Review of Adriaan T. Peperzak, Modern Freedom: Hegel's Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 49 158-163. 2004.
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21Douglas Moggach’s The Philosophy And Politics Of Bruno Bauer , David Leopold’s The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, And Human Flourishing (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 57 173-180. 2008.
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Review of Tony Burns and Ian Fraser (eds), Hegel and Marx: the concept of need (review)Political Studies 48 (1): 146-146. 2000.
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6According to Plato, the true philosopher will take on political power only with great reluctance. Onora O’Neill is a prominent political philosopher: specifically, a latter day Kantian and a follower of Rawls. She is also Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge and, as Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, a crossbench Peer in the House of Lords. I have no idea whether she was at all reluctant to take on these positions. Happily, on the evidence of the present book, they do not appear to have compromise…Read more
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253Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and MarxHistorical Materialism 11 (1): 107-128. 2003.For Marx, work is the fundamental and central activity in human life and, potentially at least, a ful lling and liberating activity. Although this view is implicit throughout Marx’s work, there is little explicit explanation or defence of it. The fullest treatment is in the account of ‘estranged labour’ [entfremdete Arbeit] in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts;1 but, even there, Marx does not set out his philosophical assumptions at length. For an understanding of these, one must turn t…Read more