-
K Anderson's Lenin, Hegel And Western Marxism (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 34 72-76. 1996.
-
The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1; Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 (review)Radical Philosophy 143. 2007.
-
26Analytical Marxism and MoralityThe Bulletin of Nihon Fukushi University 19 (81-2): 127-157. 1990.
-
Review of James D. White, Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism (review)Historical Materialism (5): 359-366. 1999.
-
I Hunt's Analytical And Dialectical Marxism (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 39 133-138. 1999.
-
16Socialism and morality (edited book)St. Martin's Press. 1990.WHAT IS THE ROLE OF MORAL VALUES IN SOCIALISM? CAN SOCIALISM BE 'SCIENTIFIC' OR IS IT ESSENTIALLY AN ETHICAL DOCTRINE? IS THERE ANY PLACE FOR mORALITY IN Marxism? THESE QUESTIONS ARE CENTRAL TO MUCH RECENT CONTROVERSY ON THE LEFT. 'SOCIALISM AND MORALITY' CONTAINS A VARIETY OF ORIGINAL AND IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THESE DEBATES BY A DISTINGUISHED GROUP OF PHILOSOPHERS AND POLITICAL THEORISTS. ALL THE PAPERS WERE SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THIS VOLUME AND MAKE A LIVELY, WIDE-RANGING AND VALUABLE CON…Read more
-
Review of Hilary Putnam, The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays (review)Radical Philosophy (122): 52-53. 2003.
-
198The Concept of Labor: Marx and His CriticsScience and Society 71 (4). 2007.Marx conceives of labor as form-giving activity. This is criticized for presupposing a "productivist" model of labor which regards work that creates a material product — craft or industrial work — as the paradigm for all work (Habermas, Benton, Arendt). Many traditional kinds of work do not seem to fit this picture, and new "immaterial" forms of labor (computer work, service work, etc.) have developed in postindus trial society which, it is argued, necessitate a fundamental revision of Marx's ap…Read more
-
40Review of Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent rational animals: Why human beings need the virtues and Stuart Hampshire, Justice is Conflict (review)Radical Philosophy 102 (102): 47-49. 2000.
-
6Socialism and DemocracyMacmillan. 1991.A collection of essays by nine prominent thinkers on the compatibility of socialism and democracy and its future.
-
71Something about my book, Marxism and Human Nature,1 seems to have provoked Eagleton's hostility and clouded his mind, but it is difficult to figure out what. All that is evident from his review is that he has not read the book carefully or taken the trouble to understand it properly.
-
9Plato's Republic: An IntroductionEdinburgh University Press. 1999.This book provides a clear, lively and highly readable introduction to the main themes of Plato's Republic. It covers Plato's social and political thought, his moral philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics, and his philosophy of art and literature. Plato's theories in all these areas are presented in concise and straightforward terms. They are located in the context of the views of subsequent philosophers and critically assessed in the light of current debates. The contemporary significance…Read more
-
74The fundamental principles of modern dialectical philosophy derive from Hegel. He sums them up as follows. ‘Everything is inherently contradictory ... Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality, it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity' (Hegel 1969, 439). In Hegel's philosophy these ideas form part of an all−embracing idealist system which portrays all phenomena ×− both natural and social ×− as subject to dialectic. Marx …Read more
-
6Review of Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (review)The European Legacy 2 (7): 1263-1264. 1997.
-
249Why 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
-
15Review of Kevin Anderson, Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 34 72-76. 1996.
-
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
-
Review of J. Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (review)Explorations in Knowledge 1 (1): 251-255. 1986.