Marx's Ethical Vision

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Epigraph
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Why Think About Marx and Ethics?
Analytical Marxism and Dialectical Method
Précis of a Marxist Ethics
The Structure of the Argument
2 Ideology Critique and the Critique of Morality
“Ideology” Is Not a Wholly Pejorative Concept
Rival Analyses of Marx’s “Ideology” Concept
Moral Suasion and Marx’s Anti-Utopianism
3 A Historical Materialist Account of Human Nature
Biological and Social Being in Marx’s Account of Human Nature
Human Needs
The “Rich Individual” in Marx’s Ethical Vision
4 Alienation
“Alienation” in Marx’s Early Writings
“Alienation” in Marx’s Later Works
5 Radical Chains (Marx On Freedom and Determinism)
Marx On “The Difference Between the Democritean and the Epicurean Philosophy of Nature”
6 Individuality
Interests, Individuals, and Egoists: Marx On Max Stirner
Defending Marx’s Methodological Holism
7 “Bourgeois” Freedom and Equal Right
Freedom
Justice and Equal Right
Rights And/in Communism
8 Marx’s Critiques of Rival Moral Theories
Marx and Christianity
Marx and Kantian Morality
Kantian Ethics
Marx’s Rejection of Kantian Ethics
Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy’s Embrace of Kant
Later Attempts to Reconcile Kantian Ethics and Marxist Theory
Marx On Utilitarianism
Marx and Bentham
Marx and J. S. Mill
Marx and Malthus
Conclusion
9 “No Particular Wrong”: The Abolition of Morality
The End of Sacrifice
Meanings of Morality’s Abolition
Progress and Perfectibility
10 Conclusion
What Now?
Coda: “The Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists,” Yesterday and Today
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Coda
Bibliography
Index