Marx's Ethical Vision
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9780197688144
Publication date:
15/01/2025
Hardback
320 pages
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ISBN:
9780197688144
Publication date:
15/01/2025
Hardback
320 pages
Vanessa Christina Wills
Covers a vast range of Marx's writings and gives a holistic account of Marx's views over the course of his life,Engages with Marx's reception among analytical philosophers while explaining the value of Marx's distinctively “dialectical” method.,Presents a novel reading of Marx and articulates novel Marxist positions in a range of philosophical debates,Written in an accessible style appropriate both for specialists and for readers previously unfamiliar with Marx.
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Vanessa Christina Wills
Description
"The communists do not preach morality at all"; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy. Yet, Marx issued both trenchant critiques of "bourgeois" morality and thundering condemnations of capitalism's "vampire-like" destructiveness. He decried commodity-exchange for corroding our ability to value one another for who we are, not how much our lives could be traded away for. He expressed apparently ethical views about human nature, the conditions necessary for human flourishing, and the desirability of bringing such conditions about—views that are interwoven throughout his
life's work, from his youthful philosophical poetry to his unfinished masterpiece, Capital.
Renewed attention to Marx's distinctively "dialectical" and historical materialist approach to conflict and change makes sense of this apparent tension in his thought. Following Marx, Vanessa Christina Wills centers labor—human beings satisfying their needs through conscious, purpose-driven, and transformative interaction with the material world—as the essential human activity. Working people's struggles reveal capitalism's worst ravages while pointing to a better future and embodying the only way there: rational transformation of our relationships to ourselves, to one
another, and to the natural world, so that the human condition emerges not as a burden we must bear but as life we joyfully create. The purposiveness of labor gives rise to a normativity already inherent in the present state of things, one that can guide us in knowing what sort of world we should build and that further prepares us to build it.
Rather than "preach morality," the key task for moral philosophy is to theorize in the light that working peoples' struggles for survival shine on capitalism—an existential threat to humanity and the defining ethical problem of our time.
About the author
Vanessa Christina Wills, Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Washington UniversityVanessa Christina Wills is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. She is a founding editor of Spectre Journal, a biannual journal of Marxist theory, strategy, and analysis.
Vanessa Christina Wills
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Ideology Critique and the Critique of Morality
Chapter 3 A Historical Materialist Account of Human Nature
Chapter 4 Alienation
Chapter 5 Radical Chains (Marx on Freedom and Determinism)
Chapter 6 Individuality
Chapter 7 "Bourgeois" Freedom and Equal Right
Chapter 8 Marx's Critiques of Rival Moral Theories
Chapter 9 "No Particular Wrong": The Abolition of Morality
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Coda: "The Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists," Yesterday and Today
Vanessa Christina Wills
Description
"The communists do not preach morality at all"; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy. Yet, Marx issued both trenchant critiques of "bourgeois" morality and thundering condemnations of capitalism's "vampire-like" destructiveness. He decried commodity-exchange for corroding our ability to value one another for who we are, not how much our lives could be traded away for. He expressed apparently ethical views about human nature, the conditions necessary for human flourishing, and the desirability of bringing such conditions about—views that are interwoven throughout his
life's work, from his youthful philosophical poetry to his unfinished masterpiece, Capital.
Renewed attention to Marx's distinctively "dialectical" and historical materialist approach to conflict and change makes sense of this apparent tension in his thought. Following Marx, Vanessa Christina Wills centers labor—human beings satisfying their needs through conscious, purpose-driven, and transformative interaction with the material world—as the essential human activity. Working people's struggles reveal capitalism's worst ravages while pointing to a better future and embodying the only way there: rational transformation of our relationships to ourselves, to one
another, and to the natural world, so that the human condition emerges not as a burden we must bear but as life we joyfully create. The purposiveness of labor gives rise to a normativity already inherent in the present state of things, one that can guide us in knowing what sort of world we should build and that further prepares us to build it.
Rather than "preach morality," the key task for moral philosophy is to theorize in the light that working peoples' struggles for survival shine on capitalism—an existential threat to humanity and the defining ethical problem of our time.
About the author
Vanessa Christina Wills, Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Washington UniversityVanessa Christina Wills is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. She is a founding editor of Spectre Journal, a biannual journal of Marxist theory, strategy, and analysis.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Ideology Critique and the Critique of Morality
Chapter 3 A Historical Materialist Account of Human Nature
Chapter 4 Alienation
Chapter 5 Radical Chains (Marx on Freedom and Determinism)
Chapter 6 Individuality
Chapter 7 "Bourgeois" Freedom and Equal Right
Chapter 8 Marx's Critiques of Rival Moral Theories
Chapter 9 "No Particular Wrong": The Abolition of Morality
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Coda: "The Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists," Yesterday and Today
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