This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx's notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the tools and techniques of analytic philosophy to formulate and defend his radical, political program. The argument proceeds by filtering the ideals and institutions of Marxism through Rousseau's notion of the "general will." Once Rousseau's ideas are properly understood it is possible to construct a community of equals who share some vision of a common good that can be achieved and maintained through cooperation or coordination that is at once both voluntary and authoritative. The book engages with liberal theory in order to establish its differences from Rousseauean-Marxian political theory. This provocative book will be of particular interest to political philosophers and political scientists concerned with Marxism, socialist theory, and democratic theory.
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"...the book represents an important part of the author's ongoing project, begun in several previous books, of rethinking and defending the central ideas of Marxist social thought. The book contains valuable discussions of many topics..." The Philosophical Review
"...unrelentingly intelligent and innovative...What gives this book its particular quality is the author's consistently sensible dealing with important and controversial questions, his ability to shape difficult claims persuasively to the argument in hand." Alan Gilbert, University of Denver
"...unrelentingly intelligent and innovative...What gives this book its particular quality is the author's consistently sensible dealing with important and controversial questions, his ability to shape difficult claims persuasively to the argument in hand." Alan Gilbert, University of Denver
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This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx's notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal.
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The Social Contract contrasts general wills with private of particular wills. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
general will coordination, general will deliberations, historical materialist scheme, solidary agents, collective choice theorists, private volition, proletarian class dictatorship, atomic individualists, jure state, conditional altruism, atomic individualism, communist conditions, option luck, collective choice rules, atomic individuals, spontaneous conceptions, lowest phase, class dictatorships, majority rule voting, facto states, logical sum, liberal tolerance, supreme direction, rational cooperation, essential autonomy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Second Discourse, New York, Difference Principle, The Politics of Autonomy, Age of States, Third World, Cambridge University Press, Soviet Union, Rousseauean Marxists, Karl Marx, Prisoner's Dilemma, Oxford University Press, Reconstructing Marxism, Clarendon Press, John Stuart Mill, The German Ideology, Collected Works, Harvard University Press, International Publishers, Princeton University Press, United States, Columbia University Press, David Gauthier, Social Democratic, Social Democrats New!
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The Social Contract contrasts general wills with private of particular wills. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
general will coordination, general will deliberations, historical materialist scheme, solidary agents, collective choice theorists, private volition, proletarian class dictatorship, atomic individualists, jure state, conditional altruism, atomic individualism, communist conditions, option luck, collective choice rules, atomic individuals, spontaneous conceptions, lowest phase, class dictatorships, majority rule voting, facto states, logical sum, liberal tolerance, supreme direction, rational cooperation, essential autonomy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Second Discourse, New York, Difference Principle, The Politics of Autonomy, Age of States, Third World, Cambridge University Press, Soviet Union, Rousseauean Marxists, Karl Marx, Prisoner's Dilemma, Oxford University Press, Reconstructing Marxism, Clarendon Press, John Stuart Mill, The German Ideology, Collected Works, Harvard University Press, International Publishers, Princeton University Press, United States, Columbia University Press, David Gauthier, Social Democratic, Social Democrats New!
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- The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on 36 pages
- Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau by John Locke on 36 pages
- Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History by Erik Olin Wright on 11 pages
- Reconstructing Marxism by Erik Olin Wright on 11 pages
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 9 pages
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- Rethinking Liberal Equality: From a "Utopian" Point of View by Andrew Levine in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Karl Marx (Arguments of the Philosophers) by Wood Allen in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Patrick Riley in Back Matter
- The Myth of Liberal Individualism by Colin Bird in Back Matter
- Rousseau: 'The Discourses' and Other Early Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (v. 1) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Front Matter
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