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40MacIntyre and modernityIn Paul Blackledge & Kelvin Knight (eds.), Virtue and Politics: Alasdair Macintyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism, University of Notre Dame Press. 2011.At a time when many professional philosophers in the English speaking world have all but given up the attempt to think critically and in large scale terms about the modern world, MacIntyre's work is defiantly untimely, and greatly welcome for that. It is remarkably wide ranging, comprehensive and thought provoking. He has been described as a `revolutionary Aristotelian', but this indicates only part of the picture. His work draws on ideas not only from Marx and Aristotle, but also from analytica…Read more
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Review of Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy - from the Bolsheviks to Ilenkov,Evald - Bakhurst,D (review)Canadian Slavonic Papers-Revue Canadienne des Slavistes 34 (1-2): 176-177. 1992.
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38F.H. Bradley and the Concept of Relative TruthRadical Philosophy 59 (59): 15-20. 1991.Few people now read F.H. Bradley and the British Idealists. This is not because they are not important philosophers. On the contrary. It is generally agreed that Bradley, in particular, 2 is a major philosopher, as well as a great, if demanding, writer. It is rather because Bradley and the other Idealists are thought to inhabit a philosophical world quite different from that of the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. They seem to be concerned with issues and problems which have little or noth…Read more
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K Anderson's Lenin, Hegel And Western Marxism (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 34 72-76. 1996.
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The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1; Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 (review)Radical Philosophy 143. 2007.
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70Philosophy and the Information SuperhighwayRadical Philosophy 67 (67): 63-63. 1994.The extraordinary capacity of computers to hold text is familiar to anyone who uses a word processor: an average book will fit comfortably onto a 3.5" floppy disc. With the growth of easy means of communication between computers an immense quantity of information has become available on a world-wide basis. The links may not yet amount to a "superhighway", but they are fast, efficient and increasingly user-friendly. Moreover, like the roads, the system is free to users (though the Clinton adminis…Read more
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I Hunt's Analytical And Dialectical Marxism (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 39 133-138. 1999.
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26Analytical Marxism and MoralityThe Bulletin of Nihon Fukushi University 19 (81-2): 127-157. 1990.
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Review of James D. White, Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism (review)Historical Materialism (5): 359-366. 1999.
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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
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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
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Review of Hilary Putnam, The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays (review)Radical Philosophy (122): 52-53. 2003.
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6Socialism and DemocracyMacmillan. 1991.A collection of essays by nine prominent thinkers on the compatibility of socialism and democracy and its future.
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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.
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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.